"A searing beam of heat sliced from those eyes ..."

From "Kingdom Come" the novel

Personal Insights: This is one of my favorite pieces in my collection. I was looking for a cel like this one for about six month. I believe the description I gave was "a silhouette of Superman, with red eye ready to shoot his laser beams", and this is what I got. Bob, gallery manager of the Warner Brothers store in Buffalo, NY, helped me out with this piece. I enjoy this cel, every time I look at it. Since it is very similar to one of my Batman cels, I framed it the same, and hang them together.

General Information: An Original Production Cel from "Superman: The Animated Series". Classic animation is the art of bringing to life single drawings to create the illusion of character drama and movement. The original animator's drawing is transferred onto an acetate cel (either by hand - inking or photocopying). The cel is then flipped over and individually hand-painted on the reverse side. Thousands of animation cels are required to create just a few minutes of film. Each work of art in unique.

Series Information: As a follow-up to their hugely successful Batman: The Animated Series, the creative team of Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Alan Burnett have transformed the mightiest super-hero of all time into another citizen of their own art-deco D.C. Comics universe. Premiering on television in September, 1996, Superman exists in a world of the future a glittering, gleaming sci-fi Metropolis. But beneath the shiny surface of this seeming utopia is it's sinister, controlling figurehead, Lex Luthor, whose domination is threatened by the sudden appearance of the morally just and apparently invincible Kryptonian, Superman.

Episode Information: From the episode "Tools of the Trade". Bruno Mannehim wants to destroy Superman. He and his Intergang terrorize Metropolis with high-tech weapons supplied by Kanto, an agent of the Darkseid (ruler of Apokolips) who stirs a devil's bargain with Bruno, leaving him deeply indebted to Darkseid yet well equipped with weapons that can destroy Superman