As much as folks talk about superhero fatigue among movie-goers, there's still an ongoing buzz attached to the DC and Marvel Comics cinematic universes. And comics-related flicks remain a much bigger deal now than they were when I was a kid in the 1960s and '70s, and even into theoretical adulthood in the '80s.
Today's gallery gathers images from comics-based movies I saw in those decades. It's not limited to films first released in that era; 1930s and '40s movies and movie serials are certainly fair game. The gallery includes movies I saw in theaters, on TV, via home video, and in screenings at the Syracuse Cinephile Society, or at the 1976 Super DC Con in New York City. It excludes TV series, but includes TV movies, and at least one feature-length compilation of TV series episodes (1974's Kato And The Green Hornet), plus one time when a local station in Syracuse aired a bunch of Hulk cartoons from the 1966 limited-animation Marvel Super Heroes series as its Saturday afternoon movie . And while the focus is on films based on comic books or syndicated comic strips, we're throwing in properties (like the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet) that originated in other media. I'm arbitrarily excluding Tarzan and Zorro, and less-arbitrarily excluding pulp hero Doc Savage, the latter only because I didn't see Doc Savage, Man Of Bronze within the stated timeline.
In the time frame, there were a number of comics-related film or TV-movie projects teased but never made, including adaptations of Black Widow (starring Angela Bowie), Captain America, Spider-Man, Silver Surfer,and Vampirella (pictured above); actress Barbara Leigh was said to be set to star in a Hammer Films Vampirella adaptation, but if that was true at any time, it wasn't true for long.
So! Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear! Lights! Camera! ACTION COMICS!
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