The Marvel Super Heroes On TV! Book Two: THOR - A Complete Episode Guide To The 1966 Cartoon Series

A big thank you to the author for organizing and publishing this great material from original production notes, original cast used scripts, original storyboards and documents. Especially grateful for properly and authoritatively identifying uncredited voice cast members and publishing their mini-biographies.Canada's radio drama talent pool responsible for the performances in "Marvel Super Heroes" never got the recognition they richly deserved. These voice actors brought the comics to life like no others before or since. I still hear these voices in my head reading the comics.I am doing my best to correct the many errors and omissions at IMDB and Wikipedia because I'm probably responsible for most of them. Jack Creley's performance as Thor was definitely the best of all and it's a shame the comics community didn't know the name of the actor to credit.A proposal is out there to create modern high quality animation of all these cartoons - but use the original voice performances and soundtrack from the old cartoons for Disney+ programming. If this happens, I'm certain proper credit can now be given to all the creatives that shaped generations of comics fans.Looking forward to the rest of the books.

When The Marvel Super-Heroes arrived on TV for the first time back in 1966,I was only 9 years old. Here I am at 63, still in love with these historically significant relics from the Marvel Age of Comics!Thank you so much, J. Ballmann for keeping these fond memories alive in your magnificent and complete episode guides to the 1966 Cartoon Series! Here is everything you've been waiting for and wanted to know about these classic gems - artwork taken for the most part, from the original comics drawn by Jack Kirby, Gene Colan, Steve Ditko and Don Heck. While the animation was limited, it had a dynamic style all its' own. They were in effect, the first motion comics!Lavishly illustrated, J. Ballmann presents us with a trove of well-organized background material including storyboards, scripts, synopsis, and screenshots from each episode.The text is well-written. J. Ballmann compares and contrasts the cartoons to the original stories. The color reproductions are stunning, taken from the best available prints (which are hard to find)! The bios in back include photos of all the creatives involved at Grantray-Lawrence. Very interesting, because I never saw any of the credits until a few years ago when a poor 16mm print appeared on YouTube! Finally, the paper and print quality, the perfect binding is immaculate and well worth the price.My only hope is that these books will awaken the powers-that-be to take action and re-release this flagship series to soar above the clouds, over the Rainbow Bridge and into your Blu-ray player. Excelsior!!

Super cool! A thick volume devoted solely to Thor’s first other-media appearance, circa 1966, as a syndicated cartoon. Aimed at kids, usually after school, the Marvel Superheroes adapted then-recent Marvel Comics to television. Limited in animation, but unlimited in fun and imagination.Now, finally, a deep probing look, behind-the-scenes, at how the show came together: Color graphics of the characters, action and villains. Photos and biographies, at long last, of the unsung voice actors. Storyboards and corrections. A full listing of episodes as well as noting the important one that got away.If you watched the show, back then or since, it’s a knowledgeable yet nostalgically entertaining look back. If it’s new to you, it’s a potentially surprising glimpse how the characters were shown to a wide audience forty years before the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Well worth your time and money. Even with faults, I watched them eagerly as a kid. Same art as the comics but with voices, music and they didn’t charge you twelve cents.My only complaint with the volume? It took fifty-five years to get here.If you loved the early Thor comics, or wonder what the character and his handling was like, way back when, this is a must-read.

I love this book - it has all the information about the Thor cartoon series of and has a lot of pictures. It goes along with the volume 1 Iron Man book. I hope they put out the rest of them, (Hulk, Captain America and Submariner).

I have the Spider Man volume and the Iron Man volume and glad to see the author is keeping going. Very informative and a pleasant memory-reminder.