Might have been fun back then, but still enjoyable to see these earliest hero depictions. The first one I missed the previous week. I remembered the second program, the roast with Ed McMahon from back when it originally aired and I thought that was dull. It's so low-budget, you can see people across the street watching when Solomon Grundy and Blac k Canary interact. They could have just run around and fought one another, like wresters (I long ago determined if some sports programs like football wore costumes like superheroes, I would be spellbound). Whoever did this clearly knew the comic books as they even put in the Legion villian of Mordru as the leader, instead of the later hyped up Darkseid.īut the look of many of the performers was accurate. Someone took West, Ward and Gorshin from the campy 60s show and just made it all out comedy, with very good additions of Charlie Callas as Sinestro (with no purple makeup, Callas' face best delivered the Sinestro look), Jeff Altman as the WEather Wizard and Howard Morris as Sinestro. Earliest Screen Appearance of Many of These Characters

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