Showing posts with label 1977. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1977. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 December 2022

Spider-Man film poster

Outside of North America a live-action webslinger first appeared in cinemas in 1977, as the CBS TV movie was - like many lavish network pilots of the time - released theatrically in the rest of the world. The movie pitted Nicholas Hammond's far-too-old Peter Parker against arguably Spidey's greatest foe, the iconic Guru. Unsurprisingly Hammond was well up for appearing in No Way Home. Unsurprisingly Marvel Studios weren't. 

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

The Angels #6 magazine cover

Charlie's Angels was massive before Farrah Fawcett's departure, though the name of Ideal Publishing's magazine suggests they maybe didn't bother paying for a licence. What's really curious though is the juxtaposition of promises of "naughty" Farrah centrefold action with beauty tips, suggesting the magazine was pushing for two very different target markets.