Spy Shadow (1967-1968)
As part of the show Super President, which had two adventures per episode, one part of the show was where we learned of Spy Shadow, an agent of Interspy named Richard Vance (Ted Cassidy) who learned — somewhere in the mysterious Far East, just like Lamont Cranston, here said to be in Tibet with mystics who […]
Batgirl (1967)
Detective Comics #359, the first issue of January 1967, featured “The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!” They were getting Batgirl into fan’s minds before she would debut on the show, even if there had already been another Batgirl, Bette Kane, who first showed up in Batman #139. Post-Crisis, her name would be changed to Flamebird. The […]
SEVERIN BLU RAY RELEASE: Russ Meyer’s Vixen (1968)
Give Russ Meyer $70,000 and he will give you everything. Take it from Roger Ebert: “Meyer’s ability to keep his movies light and farcical took the edge off the sex for people seeing their first skin-flick. By the time he made Vixen, Meyer had developed a directing style so open, direct and good-humored that it […]
SEVERIN 4K UHD RELEASE: Russ Meyer’s Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (1979)
The original elements for this film gad been stored in less-than-optimal conditions. As a culture and, well, let’s get hyperbolic and say as a people, we’re so blessed that Severin Films devoted months to the painstaking restoration of its weather-damaged negative before scanning it in 4K and compiling over two hours of new and archival […]
The Adventures of Super Pup (1958)
Last week, there was plenty of online outrage — when isn’t there? — about Krypto in the new Superman trailer. There’s another super powered dog who no one gets mad about because, well, no one knows about it. Television producer Whitney Ellsworth planned to continue The Adventures of Superman in 1959 with at least two more […]
SEVERIN BLU RAY RELEASE: Russ Meyer’s Supervixens (1975)
I’m struggling for a way to explain what a big deal Severin releasing this movie is to the uninitiated. For years, I’ve worried that because it was so difficult to see the full catalogue of Russ Meyer’s movies that he’d be relegated to a director only remembered for a few images seen in books, but […]
Super President (1967-1968)
When this show aired, it upset so many people. The National Association of Broadcasters said: “An all-time low in bad taste, with the President of the United States in a Superman role. NBC was responsible for this direct ideological approach to totalitarianism. We fear that there may be other broadcasters who are irresponsible enough to […]
Wonder Woman: Who’s Afraid of Diana Prince? (1967)
Eight years before Wonder Woman became a series with Linda Carter — after Cathy Lee Crosby appearing in the TV movie — William Dozier, who also worked on the 1967 Batman series — tried to get Wonder Woman on the air. We’re all the better that it never happened. In this four-minute screen test, Ellie Wood Walker […]
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