Past Whisper on Instagram: "In 1940, Paramount Pictures approached Fleischer Studios, already known for its Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons, to produce an animated series based on the newly popular Superman comic. At the time, animation was still evolving, and the idea of animating a character with realistic human proportions and dynamic action sequences was daunting. Believing the project too ambitious and hoping to avoid it, Fleischer Studios quoted an exorbitant fee of $100,000 for the pilot e