Showing posts with label Secret Sanctum of Captain Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secret Sanctum of Captain Video. Show all posts

Sunday, September 6, 2026

It's FLASH GORDON THE MOVIE...and So MUCH MORE!

It's the Novelization of the Cult-Classic Flick That Gives You...
...so much information about the characters' histories, that what you saw on the screen was only half the story!
Plus, it includes their unspoken, hidden thoughts, revealing insights and hitheroto unknown motivations!
Finally, you'll discover dialogue and even complete scenes left on the cutting room floor!

Here's the previous chapters from this never-reprinted tome...

Sunday, August 23, 2026

So Big It Takes THREE Blogs to Handle It...

...the Novelization of the Cult Classic Flick...
...is a truly unique book, unlike any other adaptation of a movie screenplay!

(With the possible exception of the novelization of Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove by Peter George, who wrote the novel Red Alert that Kubrick loosely-based the movie on, then wrote the novelization because the flick is so different from his original book!)
Arthur Byron Cover took elements of the screenplay by Lorenzo (Batman TV series) Semple (which was being rewritten daily on-set) along with material from the previous proposed movie directed by Nicholas (Man Who Fell to Earth) Roeg and plotted by Michael (Enter the Dragon) Allin, plus his own fascinating interpretations!
The koolest aspect is the amount of background material about the characters including extensive previously-unrevealed info about both the protagonists and the antagonists!
You'll have a whole different appreciation of them after reading this!
To assist that, here's the previous re-presented chapters from this never-reprinted novelization...

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Sunday, August 16, 2026

As One Tale Ends, Another Begins During the RetroBlogs' Summer Blogathon...

...as we conclude our re-presentation of the historic, never-reprinted premiere Marvel Comics-based 1960s prose novel...

...Avengers Battle the Earth-Wrecker by noted sci-fi/fantasy/pulp/comics author Otto Binder!
Continue the journey on Monday at
as Avenger battles Avenger in a fight to the death!
But, starting today, we begin re-presenting another never-reprinted, time-lost prose novel based on a famous comic series...specifically, the 1980 cult classic movie based on that series...

...because he'll save every one of us in a tale that expands far beyond merely trancsribing the movie script by Lorenzo (Batman the TV series) Semple!

Besides background info from the story adaptation by Michael Allin used as a guide by Semple, it also includes material from the planned earlier film by director Nicholas (Man Who Fell to Earth) Roeg as well as adaptation author and award-winning sci-fi/fantasy writer Arthur Byron Cover's fertile imagination!
It's Flash Gordon as you've never seen him before!
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Monday, June 8, 2026

Monday Mecha Madness: Before ULTRON...there was MAKINO!

Who created Ultron, the Ultimate Evil AI?
If you go with the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron...Tony Stark aka Iron Man. and Bruce Banner aka The Hulk!
If you go with Marvel Comics history...Henry Pym aka Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath/Yellowjacket/Wasp/etc (Don't ask. It's too long a story...).
In reality, it was writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema in Marvel's Avengers V1 #54 (1967).
But where did Roy come up with the idea?
Well, he "borrowed" it from Captain Video!
Yep!
In #3 of Captain Video's short-lived 1950s Fawcett Comics title, he faced a robot named Makino who killed his scientist creator and then threatened all mankind!
The story left such an impression on the young Roy Thomas that, almost two decades later, he adapted elements of that story into the long-running saga of Ultron!
Roy explained how it came about in TwoMorrows' Alter Ego #114.
You can read the actual comic story on our "brother" RetroBlog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video HERE and HERE!
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