Superman's Secret Closet

Superman's secret closet as seen in the "Adventures of Superman" starring George Reeves.

[@jeffmayelin]

Reeves was amazing and so intense! Love him forever

[@jimnolt-TAC]

You and me both!

[@johnbowersox7171]

The best superman

[@latinoislander5016]

Pfft. Batman's got a whole CAVE behind a grandfather clock.

[@bb22602]

But Batman is a bazillionaire. Superman lives on a reporter's salary.

[@FreshPrincex4]

​@@bb22602 doesn't supes have the fortress of solitude?

[@SenorZorrozzz]

I loved that closet. I always thought that I'd build onevwhen I got a house in my house now, in the closet I have a corner where I keep my Superman uniform and T shirts. I have a 1954 color season repro a jersey of the black and white era and a few different repro reeves jerseys and tshirts.

[@ahitchcox]

This raises the question: Where did Superman get his costume laundered. Yes, the fabric may be indestructible, but it would still reek after being worn many times.

[@dtyodeller]

Superman’s costume was not indestructible. There have been many times in the comics and in animated series where it’s gotten damaged in battle. Pretty badly most of the time.

[@55Quirll]

I remember the closet, seems to have 3 different ways of opening it. In Panic in the Sky, he had 2 costumes instead of just one, never explained. Thinking about put a secret closet of my own in.

[@m.f.m.67]

I remember one TV writer commenting, "He must have found a new tailor!"

[@tediousmaximus1067]

And thankfully Superman didn't ever come out of the closet :)

[@inneropinion6572]

You can tell Superman was single,by the sloppy way he hung his clothes. hahahaha

[@BingCherry11]

Lol!!!!!!

[@ozneroll2132]

You must be a married female

[@miyoshiumeki]

Although the way the apartment is set up that sliding door would go through the bricks and be outside. 😃

[@ivane5110]

Such a great series. And since our TV was balck & white never knew it had been in color until as an adult, though even then I think I noticed a tone change. I really wish the show had gotten a few more seasons. Maybe even could've gotten a bit more FX as they became cheaper or more understood. Or even an early Batman cameo? But really what I would've loved was a Superboy spinoff (with an actual teen, not just the short adult in that pilot I've seen pics of).

[@MrRonk55]

After Reeves' death there was a pilot episode of "Superboy" filmed but it was not picked up. I downloaded it years ago in RealPlayer format. May still have it on an old computer somewhere in the house.

[@patbyrne3076]

Wish they had continued the episodes as they were written in the first season, though all episodes are great to watch. Wish they had made more episodes and that George Reeves had enjoyed a longer career- he was truly special.

[@fr6313]

Agreed . As much as he didn't like playing Superman , Reeves is in my estimation actually a bigger star and more remembered than those actors of the time he revered such as Clark Gable, William Holden and Jack Lemmon

[@jamesdunn9714]

fr6313. Baby boomers such as myself remember the show fondly and it was pervasive in the 1950's being a constant on TV. So, you may be right.

[@calvinhandley2373]

The content of the episodes was toned down in the second season slightly and a great deal in the third season owing to the producers realizing that the core audience was children. Even in the mid fifties there were many that felt the content of the first season was too violent for children.

[@johnnastrom9400]

@@calvinhandley2373 "felt the content of the first season was too violent for children." -- Actually, there were times when I thought it was too violent for Superman. For example, in the episode that is shown at the beginning of the clip above, I believe (and I have not seen it since I was about 7 years old) Superman takes the couple holding the costume to the top of an icy mountain and leaves them stranded. When they try to escape, the get killed when they slip and fall off the edge.

[@calvinhandley2373]

John Nastrom that is one good example. But mainly the criminals were hardcore mobster types who frequently killed their victims. There was also a black and white episode where Superman blocks a car and it runs in to him killing the driver.

[@wildwest1]

Bet Clark used Woolite on those costumes. 😎

[@justincartledge111]

That makes sense more than the phone booth

[@jamesdunn9714]

It looks as though Clark's apartment is a different one in each scene.

[@calvinhandley2373]

The show was on a low budget, and undoubtedly used existing sets. These scenes were filmed in three different seasons. The missing costume episode was first season. Panic in the Sky was a second season episode, and some say the best of the entire series. The color episode is third season or later. It's likely that the only sets that were exclusive to the show were the sets for the Daily Planet building offices.

[@BingCherry11]

@Kittymom Home Sad but true!!!!

[@ivane5110]

@@calvinhandley2373 As a kid I just figured he either moved apartments alot or made a new hiding place each time it was found. Guess that mindset froze in time, I never considered the real world reasons.

[@theironclads]

Not precisely.Superman flew the couple to the top of the mountain & told them to remain there while he would come back with supplies for them.The couple decided to try to escape by climbing down the icy mountain when they slipped & fell to their deaths.

[@BingCherry11]

Superman should have asked Batman (Adam West) for help. Batman would have given Superman a can of his Batnesia Gas (Memory Erase Spray). That would have resolved the problem in short order! LOL!!!! Batman used this spray in more than one episode and it always worked like a charm!!!! LOL!!!!!! Problem Solved!!!!!!

[@xxlCortez]

Not even a man's clothes can be safe.

[@xcalibur1011]

this superman episode was called the stolen costume 1857 i just wished that with today's tech that dc comics would color the b&w episodes leading up to the final season of the color versions shown in 1960.

[@jimnolt-TAC]

"The Stolen Costume" is from Season 1 (1951), "Panic In The Sky" is from Season 2 (1953), and "Jimmy The Kid" from Season 4 (1955). Even though Seasons 3-6 were filmed in color, no color prints were aired until 1965. And yes, our baskets are filled with many wishes regarding this great series. Even though some episodes are now more than 70 years old, new things could be done with it.

[@wiseguymaybe]

Hmmmm. 🤔 So in the 1st and third episode of this video they finally figured out why Clark is an exact twin to Superman with glasses. Clever people.😁

[@AD-kv9kj]

Everyone always mentions this but part of Superman's powers is supposed to be like a mild Jedi mind trick kind of power. It's not the glasses that fool people, it's his powers to fool the mind. The most he uses it more obviously is when he wipes Lois Lane's memory of having fallen in love with him and known who he was...

[@johnbockelie3899]

What's this, a secret closet? I've got to see.this!, and I'll help my.self.to this Superman outfit, Costume party here I come!,

[@CaptApril123]

@@AD-kv9kj There's a similar idea in the Doctor Who world with the Tardis. It has a 'perception filter' which causes people to ignore it unless they are looking directly at it. Even if they do notice it as soon as they look away they forget and only have a vague sense of unease :)

[@DeadAbeVigoda]

The suit Clark Kent wears is the costume. The Superman outfit is just his clothes. Remember that Clark Kent is the phony identity.

[@jimnolt-TAC]

I agree with that... though there are those who feel that because he grew up with the Kents that he more closely identifies with his Kent persona rather than as a Kryptonian. I'll stick with him being Superman who sometimes disguises himself as Kent. And I think that's what the TV produces felt also "... and who disguised as Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle...."

[@majkus]

@@jimnolt-TAC The John Byrne/Marv Wolfman reboot of the comic character in 1986 was the transition point. This was when Superman became a disguise for Clark Kent, rather than the other way around. Lois and Clark played it the same way ("Well, nobody's going to be looking at your face..." says Ma Kent when Clark models the costume).

[@douglasturner6153]

Too bad. Superman is Clark's secret identity? Like Walter Mitty's? Say it ain't so Ma!

[@jeffsussman9310]

I disagree on this. Clark Kent is the person, he's still Clark as Superman but he's not hiding his powers. He's Clark in a costume. Bruce Wayne however is a shell of a person and doesn't even really know how to live honestly when he's not Batman. Batman is an obsession that became his true identity. He only presents as Bruce because he has to. Tarantino got this wrong in my opinion.

[@georgewaddill7952]

I guess I'll say it-Superman, as much as I like him, doesn't seem to be a very good carpenter.

[@danclark1348]

What I disliked most about that suit, the cape hanging down below the neckline.

[@davidbarry9690]

Dan Clark yeh i agree. Spoils the suit.

[@jimmiesmith5811]

I always wonder why they designed it like that Kirk Alyn's cape was better but the only thing it was kinda short Bob Holliday's was the best during that time until Christopher Reeve's came along but i didn't care for his boots they looked too big at the top and sometimes his neckline was too wide when it came to his cape Bob Holliday's cape was better on that part

[@michaelyacone8989]

Picky, picky, picky.

[@reidmason2551]

Joe Shuster would often draw the cape being low-slung like Reeves' version. John Byrne and Alex Ross draw it the same way. For the TV show, they were probably going for a Roman centurion look, but the early comics did it first.

[@larryaldrich4351]

I wonder if Lucas McCain had a secret closet full of spare rifles.

[@sugarjoe50]

I wonder which dry-cleaners Superman patronized?

[@BingCherry11]

I think he flies to New York City and visits a dry cleaners called "Del Florias" UNCLE's secret entrance - Watch the TV Series - The Man from UNCLE!!! Lol!!!

[@blueticecho5690]

Today it would be George Jeffersons..

[@sugarjoe50]

How often was the suit laundered? Then again maybe Kryptonians didn't perspire!

[@jimnolt-TAC]

That's actually a good question, Joe. Maybe Kryptonians didn't perspire (I don't know), but surely George did. I wonder if the suit was cleaned every day.

[@JohnDrakeMI6]

Today was the anniversary of George Reeves murder June 16, 1959

[@DickPoleman]

i love the first episode.....isn't that the one where Superman left the couple to die on the mountain?

[@paulpuglia8460]

He didn't leave them there to die. He put them there and was going to come back for supplies. They decided to try and climb down the mountain, but they slipped & fell to their deaths.

[@dangeroreilly2028]

Paul Puglia is right.

[@davidchan9632]

Yes. Episode. The Stolen Costume which was a very good episode. 1951.

[@ralphangioli4852]

True Superman didn’t leave them there to die but you can make the argument that he abducted them for no other reason but to protect his secret identity which is a crime in of itself. Just how long did he intend to keep them prisoner had they not tried to climb down the mountain and fall to their deaths? A lot of fans today have a problem with this episode for all the moral questions it leaves open.

[@btqy]

@@ralphangioli4852 The Patriot Act for National Security.

[@r0bw00d]

* shakes head at people in the comments section * The word you're looking for is "costume." A suit is what Clark wears. A uniform is what an organization wears.

[@MrAlumni72]

The word I'm looking for is ... pretentious.

[@r0bw00d]

No, the word you're looking for is "educated." A phrase you're also looking for is "common sense."

[@davincent98]

The word i'm looking for, I can't say, because there's preschool toys around

[@user-ou5hz2sp3s]

The Stolen Costume episode Superman had 1 costume. When it went to color episodes he had more than 1 Superman costume.

[@luisantoniomarrega1120]

Eu assisti um episódio da série que casal descobre o segredo do super man o cara acaba morrendo e a mulher o Superman a deixa no pico de uma montanha. Rio RJ Brasil

[@allencampbell8322]

It was doomed once he came out of the closet

[@jonathanswift2251]

Jack Larson in the closet in the 50's. Hmmm. 🤔🤔

[@ColonelMarcellus]

Did not Superman, in one of these adventures, take the thieves way up onto a mountain and let them fall to their deaths as they tried to climb down?

[@jimnolt-TAC]

Yes, that happened in "The Stolen Costume," the first of these three. T-ball steals the costume and takes it to Ace and Connie before he dies. Ace and Connie threaten to reveal is secret identity. To buy some time, Superman takes them to a cabin on a mountaintop. Thinking Superman will leave them there, Ace and Connie attempt to climb down... but all to their deaths.

[@ColonelMarcellus]

@JM Liberal sure he did. He flew over and watched as they fell .

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

“Season One”.

[@ChrisAlphaCyberstar]

great! I subbed Supie 4ever!

[@pl5624]

The camera sweep reveals the open wall..only 3 sided..breaking the reality for all the kids...oh..they never noticed that anyway I bet.

[@DBRONX]

I've always wanted to know what's in the gym bag in "Panic in the Sky."

[@m.f.m.67]

Red boots?

[@danielbills5330]

I Like This Episode.

[@kentconklin7294]

Looks like Lucy and Ricky's apartment

[@tomryan914]

"Rucy, you've get some 'splaining to do!"

[@director92110]

These episodes don't make any sense. If he only had ONE costume in the earlier episode and it was stolen, where the hell did the other one come from later on?

[@SenorZorrozzz]

director92110 true

[@SenorZorrozzz]

As a kid I always wondered why they come up with that idea in the comics that mrs. Kent somehow too the baby blankets and rewove them into the Superman Uniform. That would have talent forever! Unless Superboy helped her.

[@knottreel]

@@SenorZorrozzz Since the threads couldn't be cut, the comic books explained that Superboy had to melt them one by one with his heat vision.

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

That’s one of the “Superman Mysteries”.

[@kevinmadden1645]

When did he get another costume?

[@jimnolt-TAC]

That second one mysteriously showed up in season 2. And its origin is still a mystery.

[@BingCherry11]

In one closet Superman only has one costume made by his adopted mother Martha Kent. In another episode Superman has 2 back-up costumes plus the one he wearing!!!! Wow!!!!!

[@calvinhandley2373]

In the TV series his mother was still alive when he got on the bus for Metropolis. Perhaps she made him another pair of costumes when he visited her in Smallville. After all what's the point of being faster than a speeding bullet if you can't sneak home and say hi to mom.

[@BingCherry11]

@@calvinhandley2373 Perfect explanation!!!! I am thinking that when Clark told Martha about the time his costume was stolen ... It was at that time that Martha took out the old material still left over from when she made his first costume and made him the next two. However, It would be a good idea for Clark to kept them hidden in different locations in his apartment!!!!

[@ralphcrisp2112]

If the material was indestructible...how did Martha .. cut and sew it together

[@BingCherry11]

@@calvinhandley2373 Perfect answer!!!! Lol!!!! Thank you!!!!!

[@BingCherry11]

@@ralphcrisp2112 With great difficulty I am sure!!!! Maybe Calvin Handley can help us out here. I thinking she could have gone back to crash landing site an found some sharp pieces of the wreckage and used them to cut the material.

[@beneaththecrust4661]

Doesn't superman wear his suit under his clothes?

[@timkumpost6036]

That's what I always thought.

[@jamesdunn9714]

An extra suit?

[@leroykevin]

In the first episode, Clark had to leave the costume at home because The Daily Planet was having an annual physical for the employees

[@BingCherry11]

@@jamesdunn9714 Yeah!!!! An Extra Suit!!!! Very cool!!!!! As far as I know Martha only made one suite for Clark!!!!

[@calvinhandley2373]

BingCherry11 As the first season was written he only had the one, presumably because the Kryptonian Blankets he was wrapped in as a baby were only enough for one suit. In the first season episode it was clear that he only had the one. In the second season episode Panic In The Sky they showed that he had spare costumes. No explanation was ever provided. TV viewers in the 1950's did not analyze every detail in the way that some do today. Getting past the problem of getting more Kryptonian fabric, one could assume that after the costume went missing the first time Clark would see the importance of having a spare. In the 1990's TV series Lois and Clark, he also had a secret compartment in his closet with several spare costumes. In that series it was explained that his mother made them for him, as in that series Ma & Pa were alive and well living in Smallville.

[@Tazio25]

How stupid you have to be to try and rob a Superman?

[@jimnolt-TAC]

Some people never learn.

[@kevinmadden1645]

How did T-Ball know that he was in Clark Kent's apartment?

[@jimnolt-TAC]

He didn't. All T-Ball knew was that he was in apartment 5-H at the Standish Arms. Connie went there, and when Candy answered the door she asked to see "Mr. Fuller." Candy replied, "This isn't Mr. Fuller's apartment. It's Clark Kent's apartment."

[@kevinmadden1645]

That does explain it. Thanks!

[@billthestinker]

Of course Superman was multiple costumes, brown stains happen

[@michaelyacone8989]

Superman didn't really need multiple costumes. His one could be laundered as could any type of cloth. It was woven by his earthly mother Martha Kent using material unraveled from the Kryptonian blankets in which he was swaddled in on his way to Earth. Naturally, the material was as impervious to fire and destruction as he was. Not sure about how his red boots and his belt were constructed.

[@reidmason2551]

@@michaelyacone8989 The seat belt from his space pod became his costume belt. The boots were made from the pod's rubber insulation. In other words, the whole suit was scavenged from what came with him to Earth.

[@michaelyacone8989]

@@reidmason2551 In Superman's secret closet, he had several, spare Superman suits hanging. I wonder where all the material for those costumes came from? Must have been a lot of extra, blue blankets in that rocket ship!

[@georgesenda1952]

don diego vega. lol. you're dating yourself. you could make those and sell them on ebay and clean up. next we'll see someone calling themselves alfego baca or t.h.e. cat :)