Filmation Files: Aquaman - "The Rampaging Reptile Men"
05/10/20 • 33 min
Aquaman
"The Rampaging Reptile Men"
September 9, 1967
The Reptile Men attack an Atlantean power station and retreat when Aquaman arrives. He follows them to their under water grotto where he discovers an entire civilization.
John and Dan discuss the last story in the first airing of Aquaman. This discussion includes a look at the Aqualab, the design of the Reptile Men, and issue #35 of Aquaman from a few months earlier where the Atlanteans give up their ability to breathe underwater.
Join us in a few weeks as we return with a new Super Friends review, "The Balloon People" and follow that up with a look at a Green Lantern short for our next Filmation Files.
Aquaman
"The Rampaging Reptile Men"
September 9, 1967
The Reptile Men attack an Atlantean power station and retreat when Aquaman arrives. He follows them to their under water grotto where he discovers an entire civilization.
John and Dan discuss the last story in the first airing of Aquaman. This discussion includes a look at the Aqualab, the design of the Reptile Men, and issue #35 of Aquaman from a few months earlier where the Atlanteans give up their ability to breathe underwater.
Join us in a few weeks as we return with a new Super Friends review, "The Balloon People" and follow that up with a look at a Green Lantern short for our next Filmation Files.
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008: "The Androids"
"The Androids"
Aired: October 27, 1973
A lunar mission returns to Earth, but the astronauts are missing. The Super Friends are brought in to investigate and soon discover that the entire space program is endangered by a scientist and his army of androids.
John and Dan Greenfield of 13th Dimension are at odds over how good this episode is. Together, they discuss how much like a Batman 66 episode this story is, how much the space program meant to us, and how the cartoon was mirroring the Superman comics of the time.
John references The Ultimate Super Friends Companion by Will Rodgers. Check it out for yourself by purchasing a copy via Amazon.
Dan Greenfield is the editor and co-creator of 13thDimension.com, a website devoted primarily to comics and pop culture, past and present. To him, the basic food groups are Batman, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek (the Original Series), James Bond, the Beatles and the Stones. But if he had to he'd be able to subsist on Batman alone. Channel 11 in New York was his favorite syndicated channel as a kid -- you can guess why -- followed closely by Channel 5. Channel 9 didn't really enter into it unless he was home sick and there wasn't much else on. He's married to his remarkably patient wife Wendy and his best sidekick is his son, Sam. They have two cats,Lex and Zod.
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Filmation Files: Green Lantern - "Evil Is as Evil Does"
Green Lantern
"Evil is as Evil Does"
December 23, 1967
Evil Star escapes from prison and makes his way to Earth to attack Green Lantern. But when he fails to defeat the Emerald Warrior, he travels to Oa, disables the Guardians and prepares for a final confrontation.
John and Dan return to the sea to discuss the 80th anniversary of Green Lantern, the vocal talents of Paul Frees and Gerald Mohr, and the differences and similarities with issue #44 of Green Lantern.
We'll be back shortly with our Super Friends review of "The Balloon People".
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