Superhero film as action, horror, fantasy, comedy etc. Almost immediately after superheroes rose to prominence in comic books, they were adapted into Saturday film serials aimed at children, starting with "Mandrake The Magician" (1939). Serials such as "Adventures of Captain Marvel" (1941), "Batman" (1943), "The Phantom" (1943), "Captain America" (1944), and "Superman" (1948) followed. In the following decades, the decline of Saturday serials and turmoil in the comic book industry put an end to superhero motion pictures, with the exception of "Superman and the Mole Men", starring George Reeves, which was a trial balloon for the television series "Adventures of Superman", compilations
Kobra (comic book) Kobra (comic book) Kobra (trans. "Cobra") was a Yugoslav comic book created by artist Branislav Kerac and writer Svetozar Obradović. The main character of the comic is a young stunt man, nicknamed Kobra. After ending their cooperation with publisher Dnevnik, artist Branislav Kerac and writer Svetozar Obradović started to cooperate with the publisher Dečje novine. Their first comic published by Dečje novine was "Kobra", a comic about a young stunt man nicknamed Kobra. "Kobra" was first published in Dečje novine's comic magazine "YU strip" in 1979. Seventeen issues were published, before Kerac dropped his work on "Kobra" to work on