With the moderate success of Filmation’s live-action show Shazam! the studio decided to create a female counterpart to Captain Marvel but as they were unwilling to pay licensing fees for Mary Marvel a new character called Isis was created.
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Shazam! (1974-1977) – Review
In the early 70s kids were overjoyed to see Hanna-Barbera’s Super Friends cartoon, starring their favorite superheroes each and every Saturday morning, but over at rival animation house Filmation a half-hour live-action Saturday morning program, featuring the adventures of Captain Marvel, was being produced, and to say the results were something less than heroic would…
Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941) – Review
Republic Pictures may have been considered a “Poverty Row” company when compared to bigger studios like Warner Brothers, Columbia and Fox – being relegated to mostly doing B movies and westerns – but when it came to producing serials they left all the others in the dust, giving us such great entries as Dick Tracy…
The Punisher: Season One Review
Season two of Netflix’s Daredevil brought everyone’s favorite gun toting vigilante to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and this particular depiction of The Punisher was so well executed that he completely overshadowed the Elektra storyline, and once Frank Castle was presumed dead what plot was left I became a lot less interested in. Thus when it…
Justice League (2017) – Review
With Zack Snyder’s Justice League the DC Extended Universe moves into full gear, unfortunately at times it looks like they’ve stripped a gear or two. As the film’s troubled production has been no secret, with the original concept of it being a two part film being jettisoned in favour a two hour standalone one, and…