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.
Tag: Superhero
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…
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) – Review
What if Thor and Hulk were roommates? That is just one of many interesting ideas that director Taika Waititi tackles in this latest chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and boy does he have fun exploring them, but of course, the biggest question answered is what exactly were Thor and Hulk doing when everyone else…
Batman vs. Two-Face (2017) – Review
With the success that Warner Animation had with last year’s release of Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, it’s no surprise that they’d give the classic campy world of 1960s Batman another spin, and back are Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar to provide voices to their most iconic creations.
Howard the Duck (1986) From Comic Book to the Big Screen
It’s hard to believe that the first Marvel character to make its way to the big screen was something as off-beat and off-brand as Howard the Duck; both Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk had earlier managed to make it to the small screen with varying degrees of success but no attempts at a cinematic venture…