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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: INCspot613 on October 28, 2013, 05:10:39 PM
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Any other fans of superhero serials here who've thought about this?
Personally, I'd like to see either a Blue Beetle or a Daredevil serial (as long as they were done by Republic Studios. Not only did they have good production values, but they had the best fight scenes.)
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Daredevil with his boomerang and spiked belt would be pretty cool. I think one of my first choices would be Black Dwarf or Phantom Lady.
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Yeah, I'm with Narf on his choices.
Madam Fatal played as a comedy might have been goofy fun but what would the censors say?
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Amazing Man
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The Grim Reaper operated behind enemy lines, had no powers, and got to shoot Nazis!
For the win.
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Grim Reaper would work but as much as we all love Amazing Man I do not think him suited for a seriel.
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How about Ace's the Spider.... Easy enough. No super powers, a suit and a mask.
RB @ Work
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Well, there's what would have made a great serial and there's what would have actually been tolerated at the time. I have been fascinated by the original Black Widow ever since I first became aware of her existence. AAMOF, if you go onto the Wikipedia Black Widow (Claire Voyant) page, I wrote the vast majority of it. (Also the vast majority of the pages on Captain Triumph, Captain 3-D, and - though not a GA comic - Somerset Holmes.) But by the standards of the 1940s, if they wanted to be at all faithful to the source material, the Black Widow would have been WAY too high octane for a serial.
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The Blue Beetle went through some interesting permutations over the decades. A serial for him or The Black Hood would have been interesting.
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The Black Cat could have worked superbly. Actually, the idea of a beautiful, young starlet with martial arts skills who rides a motorcycle seems so perfectly suited for a serial, I have to wonder if they had that in mind when they created her.
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Actually, how about Batman? It's true there were two cinema serials, but they were so cheap and obscure that they might as well never have existed. I haven't seen either of them, but judging by stills, they were embarrassingly dire poverty-row productions with a cast of nobodies in terrible costumes, and in one of them Batman was fighting some sort of not terribly PC "yellow peril" villain who wasn't in the comics.
But suppose the original grim, gritty Dark Knight of the actual Year One had continued to be a ruthless (and presumably Robin-less) vigilante who had no problems with a spot of casual manslaughter if he thought the baddies deserved it? How would a forties or fifties Batman serial or movie blessed with a decent budget and cast because adults were likely to be interested in it as well as kiddies have panned out?
The obvious choice for Batman would have been Burt Lancaster. Look at that jawline, and also, unlike anyone who has ever played the Caped Crusader, he was a genuine circus acrobat. And so was Kirk Douglas - wouldn't he have been a fantastic Joker? And how about Charlton Heston as Harvey Dent? And Tony Curtis as the Riddler? Of course, the Penguin was clearly based on Edward G. Robinson, and if they needed any of the more obscure villains, the first Clayface was blatantly Boris Karloff with a very slightly different name. I'm not sure about Catwoman though - probably Myrna Loy, since she ended up being cast as Fu Manchu's daughter. Which would have made her a shoo-in for Talia al-Ghul, except that she hadn't been invented yet.
Anyway, it's a thought, isn't it?
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I rather like the Batman serials but if you want a spot of casual manslaughter, Captain Marvel chucks a bad guy off a roof and in the 1st. Spider serial, The Spider/Wentworth uses 2 huge automatics and doesn't worry about the bodies.
The suggestion that really appeals is Black Cat - I'd buy that. But there is a film with a masked, "costumed" heroine battering a mad scientist and other miscreants and you can see La Mujer Murcielago here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUyZB_xbG2c
One of my favourite serials is The Secret Code with The Black Commando and this is one NOT based on a G.A. comic, or any comic for that matter.
As a fan of The Hood - I really like the mask/hood - that would have been one for me, but, really, I just love old serials. There's a Spanish hero, El Encapuchado, who has a similar hood. A very popular comic and pulp at the time and that would be a good one. A couple of covers here:-
http://navarrobadia.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/el-encapuchado.html