Power Trip
By Jason Young
160 pages/25/Oldtimes Blue Ribbon Digest
Growing up in the 1970s, comic book readers didn’t have a lot in the way of extensions of their favorite characters. There was the occasional novel and ABC’s Super Friends, but really, little else. As a result, getting new stories or new versions of stories on an album featuring your favorite heroes seemed like manna from Heaven.
Power Records or Peter Pan Records filled that gap, beginning in the early 1970s and petering out in the early 1980s. They may be best remembered for the wonderful art produced for the album covers by Continuity Studios, the outfit run by Neal Adams and (briefly) Dick Giordano. They featured familiar vocal talent and the stories weren’t half bad. They were successful enough that their thirty or so releases were repackaged time and again, eventually eschewing vinyl for cassette tapes to retain the audience.
By Jason Young
160 pages/25/Oldtimes Blue Ribbon Digest
Growing up in the 1970s, comic book readers didn’t have a lot in the way of extensions of their favorite characters. There was the occasional novel and ABC’s Super Friends, but really, little else. As a result, getting new stories or new versions of stories on an album featuring your favorite heroes seemed like manna from Heaven.
Power Records or Peter Pan Records filled that gap, beginning in the early 1970s and petering out in the early 1980s. They may be best remembered for the wonderful art produced for the album covers by Continuity Studios, the outfit run by Neal Adams and (briefly) Dick Giordano. They featured familiar vocal talent and the stories weren’t half bad. They were successful enough that their thirty or so releases were repackaged time and again, eventually eschewing vinyl for cassette tapes to retain the audience.
- 8/15/2022
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Riverdale star Kj Apa and 1883 actress Isabel May have nabbed the alien sibling lead roles in the HBO Max live action DC comedy The Wonder Twins.
Apa will play Zan, and May will portray Jayna.
While the plotline is under wraps, Jayna is known for her talent of transforming into an animal, while Zan is a shapeshifter of sorts. The two made their debut on The All-New Super Friends Hour from Hanna-Barbera and then appeared in The World’s Greatest Super Friends, Super Friends, and Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show. Their history: the duo are from the planet Exxor who were being informally trained by the DC superheroes. In a 1977 Super Friends comic book from E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Ramona Fradon, it’s further detailed that the twins were orphaned during a plague and adopted by the alien Exorians. Along the way, they’re given Gleek as a pet.
Apa will play Zan, and May will portray Jayna.
While the plotline is under wraps, Jayna is known for her talent of transforming into an animal, while Zan is a shapeshifter of sorts. The two made their debut on The All-New Super Friends Hour from Hanna-Barbera and then appeared in The World’s Greatest Super Friends, Super Friends, and Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show. Their history: the duo are from the planet Exxor who were being informally trained by the DC superheroes. In a 1977 Super Friends comic book from E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Ramona Fradon, it’s further detailed that the twins were orphaned during a plague and adopted by the alien Exorians. Along the way, they’re given Gleek as a pet.
- 4/15/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
DC Comics' "Secret Six" (1968) is being developed as a pilot for a TV series at CBS, with showrunner Bill Lawrence ("Scrubs") working with a script by Rick Muirragui ("Suits"):
"...originally created as a team of mercenary crime-fighters by writer E. Nelson Bridwell and illustrator Frank Springer, another version of the team appeared in "Villains United" #1 (July 2005).
"Led by 'Lex Luthor', aka the mysterious 'Mockingbird', this version of the Secret Six consists of villainous characters who accept missions of dubious moral quality, including DC Comics characters 'Catman', 'Deadshot' and 'Cheshire', plus newly created 'Rag Doll' and 'Scandal Savage'.
"Another version of "Secret Six' was published by DC in 2009..."
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"...originally created as a team of mercenary crime-fighters by writer E. Nelson Bridwell and illustrator Frank Springer, another version of the team appeared in "Villains United" #1 (July 2005).
"Led by 'Lex Luthor', aka the mysterious 'Mockingbird', this version of the Secret Six consists of villainous characters who accept missions of dubious moral quality, including DC Comics characters 'Catman', 'Deadshot' and 'Cheshire', plus newly created 'Rag Doll' and 'Scandal Savage'.
"Another version of "Secret Six' was published by DC in 2009..."
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- 10/12/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
CBS has begun development on a series based on the DC Comics super-team “Secret Six.”
The project, which has a pilot production commitment at the network, centers on six morally ambiguous strangers, each with their own unique specialties and secret pasts, are brought together by an enigmatic figure who blackmails them into working as a team to expose the corruption of the corporate and political elite.
Similar to DC’s “Suicide Squad,” Secret Six has had multiple incarnations in DC Comics over the years. The original team, created by writer E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Frank Springer in 1969, featured lesser-known characters like August Durant, Crimson Dawn and King Savage. The concept was rebooted in 1988 by writer Martin Pasko and artist Dan Spiegle featuring new and original members. Writer Gail Simone created a third version in 2005 made up of DC Comics villains like Deadshot and Lex Luthor.
Also Read: 'Suicide Squad...
The project, which has a pilot production commitment at the network, centers on six morally ambiguous strangers, each with their own unique specialties and secret pasts, are brought together by an enigmatic figure who blackmails them into working as a team to expose the corruption of the corporate and political elite.
Similar to DC’s “Suicide Squad,” Secret Six has had multiple incarnations in DC Comics over the years. The original team, created by writer E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Frank Springer in 1969, featured lesser-known characters like August Durant, Crimson Dawn and King Savage. The concept was rebooted in 1988 by writer Martin Pasko and artist Dan Spiegle featuring new and original members. Writer Gail Simone created a third version in 2005 made up of DC Comics villains like Deadshot and Lex Luthor.
Also Read: 'Suicide Squad...
- 10/10/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
In 1973, as most super-hero series faded from Saturday morning memory, ABC introduced the Justice League of America under the more kid friendly name Super Friends. Until 1986 the series evolved but continued to be a network fixture with one series break, absent the 1984-1984 season. It was at that point production company Hanna-Barbera had enough episodes stockpiled that they could offer them as a syndicated package that could be stripped, that is, run five days a week. ABC dropped the series that fateful season as opposed to being in theoretical competition with itself. H-b, though, continued to produce 24 more shorts, or eight half-hours worth of programming which aired on schedule in Australia and was later sprinkled in the Superman/Batman Adventures, which ran on USA starting in 1995.
Now, for the first time, Warner Home Video has collected these “lost” episodes on a two-disc set, coming this Tuesday.
They could have saved themselves the trouble.
Now, for the first time, Warner Home Video has collected these “lost” episodes on a two-disc set, coming this Tuesday.
They could have saved themselves the trouble.
- 8/9/2009
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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