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Some covers and pictures I discovered on Pininterest. Maybe our GM can use them or maybe they would create costume ideas for folks.

Primarily these come from various Japanese TV shows and movies but you will spot some known figures of American and British TV shows and movies as well.

Movie Serial Batman. Two were done in the 1940s.

One of the big things about Buck Rogers was how colorful their clothes and ships were in the Sunday colored pages.

from Wiki on Captain America 1944 movie serial:

Republic was notorious for making changes in their adaptations. This occurred with Captain America more than most. Timely, the owner of Captain America, was unhappy with the omission of Steve Rogers, the lack of an army setting and his use of a gun. Republic responded in writing that the sample pages provided by Timely did not indicate that Captain America was a soldier called Steve Rogers, nor that he did not carry a revolver. They also noted that the serial was well into production by this point and they could not return to the original concept without expensive retakes and dubbing. Finally they pointed out that Republic was under no contractual obligation to do any of this.[3]

The differences between the comic book and film versions of the title character in this serial are more extreme than with other Republic comic adaptations, such as Adventures of Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher.[6] For example:

His secret identity is District Attorney Grant Gardner rather than U.S. Army Private Steve Rogers.
The "Super-Soldier Serum" origin is not used.
His famous shield does not appear, replaced by a standard gun.
Despite the fact that this serial was made in 1944, and Captain America regularly fought Nazis in the comics, the Nazis are not part of the story in any way.
His sidekick, Bucky, does not appear.

The reason for the differences appears not to be arbitrary, but that the script for the serial originally featured an entirely different licensed lead character and it was only decided later to replace the original character with Captain America. Film historians Jim Harmon and Don Glut speculated that the script was originally written as a sequel to 1940's Mysterious Doctor Satan, which featured the masked hero The Copperhead.[citation needed] This character was himself a substitution for DC's Superman, after Republic's bid for that character's film rights lost to Paramount, who had a series of cartoon shorts made by the Fleischer Studios, and would later on acquire Republic, as well as distribute a feature-length Captain America film.

Republic previously had adapted Fawcett Comics characters (Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher). Due to the fact that the lead in Captain America is a crime-fighting district attorney aided by a female secretary who knows his identity, and that the serial includes a chapter entitled "The Scarlet Shroud" in which nothing scarlet appears, film restoration director Eric Stedman suggests that it is more likely that the script was originally developed to feature Fawcett's comic book hero Mr. Scarlet, secretly D.A. Brian Butler, whose comic book appearances had proved unpopular and who had actually disappeared from comic book covers and been relegated to being a backup feature between the time the serial was planned and the final film produced.[citation needed]

Writer Raymond William Stedman believes that the differences between the comic-book and film versions of Captain America were "for the better" as, for example, the hero did not have to sneak out of an army base every time he needed to change identities.[4]

Dick Purcell as Grant Gardner / Captain America:
The character drastically differs from his comic book counterpart, who was a frail soldier named Steve Rogers who underwent a super-soldier experiment to enhance his physiology to the peak of human perfection. These elements are completely omitted and the character's identity is changed to a District Attorney named Grant Gardner. Purcell was cast as the hero despite, as described by Harmon and Glut, having an average and slightly overweight physique.[3] He died a few weeks after filming was completed; he collapsed in the locker room at a Los Angeles country club. In the opinion of film historian Raymond Stedman, the strain of filming Captain America had been too much for his heart.[4]

And the 1990s Captain America with the fascist Italian Red Skull. This movie misfired so many times but had some decent moments in it. As memory serves, Cap lost EVERY SINGLE BATTLE in the movie, including the final battle. He was saved by a swinging crane or something.

Captain America is a 1990 American-Yugoslavian superhero film directed by Albert Pyun and written by Stephen Tolkin and Lawrence J. Block (aka Larry Block). The film is based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. While the film takes several liberties with the comic's storyline, it features Steve Rogers becoming Captain America during World War II to battle the Red Skull, being frozen in ice, and subsequently being revived to save the President of the United States from a crime family that dislikes his environmentalist policies.[2]

Release
The film was intended for release in August 1990,[7] to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Captain America.[citation needed] Several release dates were announced between Fall 1990 and Winter 1991,[8] but the film went unreleased for two years before debuting direct-to-video and on cable television in the United States in the summer of 1992.[9] It was given a limited theatrical release internationally.[10]

The film was invited to screen as part of the 2013 Comic-Con in San Diego in July 2013.[11]

The film also has its debut on Cinemax Asia.[12]

Reception
The film was almost universally panned by critics, holding a 7% rating on the film critic aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 15 critics, with an average rating of 2.9/10. The consensus states: "Lacking a script, budget, direction, or star capable of doing justice to its source material, this Captain America should have been left under the ice."[13] It is the lowest rated film based on a Marvel Comics character on the site.

movie serial Captain Marvel. He beat Superman to the live action screen by a couple of years if memory serves. Darn good serial. Very re-watchable. Really interesting to watch how they try various methods to make it appear that he was flying.

Had no idea the B+W Cap Marvel serial was a thing. Fun to see the other stuff you posted too!

Here's a question for you ... were there any old/now out of copyright magazines or comics that featured fantasy/sword & sorcery/mythological creatures? Seems to me the comics go in waves with superheroes having the biggest and longest wave but previous waves including Science Fiction, Western, Love Stories, Horror, Crime and mystery.

Outside of Conan and Edgar Rice Burroughs' stuff, pretty much everything is now in Public Domain. sword and sorcery wasn't really a big comic book thing until Marvel started printing Conan comics back in the 70s. So you can find covers from lots of defunct pulp titles. I will see what I can pull up.

more aliens and a Batman tie-in.

Electra-Woman and Dyna Girl, the seventies were a great time for live action Saturday Morning TV shows - Lidsville, HR Puffinstuff, Shazam/Isis Hour, and a couple of British shows that we kids got to see.

Dyna Girl's big saying was versions of "That's Electrarific!"





And which is the real Elvira?

Flash Gordon. Not only did he have a movie, a very colorful movie in the 80s but he had a number of movie serials throughout the 30s and 40s.

Dig those costumes!

Ah, oldies but goodies.

What could have been! Also Devil Woman from Mars. And I have no idea when that was written but pretty cool looking cover.

Mars Attacks was a series of bubble gum cards originally released in 1962 and were pretty graphic. Over the years more "cards" have been released in the series, including reprints of the original run. And a great movie of the same name was made from the series.

From a variety of movies and TV shows from all over the world.