The Marvel Super Heroes facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Marvel Super Heroes |
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| Opening theme | "The Marvel Super Heroes Has Arrived!" |
| Ending theme | "The Merry Marvel Marching Society" |
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| No. of episodes | 65 (195 segments) |
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| Running time | 30 min |
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| Distributor | Krantz Films |
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| Original network | First-run syndication |
| Original release | September 1 – December 1, 1966 |
The Marvel Super Heroes is an American animated television series starring five comic book superheroes from Marvel Comics. The first TV series based on Marvel characters, it debuted in syndication on U.S. television in 1966.
Produced by Grantray-Lawrence Animation, headed by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson and Robert Lawrence, it was an umbrella series of five segments, each approximately seven minutes long, broadcast on local television stations that aired the show at different times. The series ran initially as a half-hour program made up of three seven-minute segments of a single superhero, separated by a short description of one of the other four heroes. It has also been broadcast as a mixture of various heroes in a half-hour timeslot, and as individual segments as filler or within a children's TV program.
The segments were "Captain America", "The Incredible Hulk", "Iron Man", "The Mighty Thor" and "The Sub-Mariner".
Contents
Cast
- Carl Banas - Bucky Barnes
- Sandy Becker - Steve Rogers / Captain America
- Bernard Cowan - Narrator, Odin, Melter, Captain Torak, Morgan, Ringmaster, Sando/Colonel Von Kraz,
- Jack Creley - Jack Frost/Professor Shapanka
- Len Carlson - Quicksilver, Loki, Nathan Garrett / Black Knight, President
- Vern Chapman - Edwin Jarvis, Super-Adaptoid
- Henry Comor - Gargantus
- Gillie Fenwick - Baron Heinrich Zemo, Radioactive Man, Leader, Batroc the Leaper, Space Phantom, Dr. Cedric Rawlings, Heimdall, Mister Hyde, Sandu, Premiere Pouldu
- Max Ferguson - Hulk
- Margaret Griffin - Pepper Potts, Black Widow, Countess de la Spirosa
- Tom Harvey - Happy Hogan, Giant-Man, Iceman, Chameleon, Super-Skrull, Anton Vanko / Crimson Dynamo, Borok
- Paul Kligman - Thunderbolt Ross, Red Skull, Warlord Krang, Mole Man, Metal Master, Power Man
- Vita Linder - Betty Ross, Lady Dorma, Jane Foster, Enchantress, Scarlet Witch, Wasp, Sharon Carter, Peggy Carter, Lorelei, Celia Rawlings, Hippolyta
- Don Mason - Rick Jones
- Douglas Master - Senator Harrington Boyd
- Ed McNamara - Swordsman, Titanium Man, Boomerang, Mad Thinker
- Henry Ramer - Major Uberhart, Doctor Doom, Wolfgang, Vashti, Mandarin
- Paul Soles - Bruce Banner, Attuma, Rick Jones
- John Vernon - Iron Man/Tony Stark, Sub-Mariner/Prince Namor, Major Glenn Talbot, Major Corey
- Chris Wiggins - Thor/Dr. Donald Blake, Hawkeye, Kraven, Grey Gargoyle, Byrrah, Balder, Jack Frost, Molto, Professor X, Count Nefaria
- Peg Dixon - Mary Jane Watson, Betty Brant
For WNAC-TV in Boston, Arthur Pierce portrayed Captain America in live-action segments for the show. Actors portraying other characters, including Dr. Doom, Hulk, and Bucky, also appeared in live-action segments. The segments were scripted by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel.
Guest characters
Appearing in guest roles were:
- The X-Men — The original lineup of the Angel, the Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, and Marvel Girl appeared in a Sub-Mariner episode, "Dr. Doom's Day / The Doomed Allegiance / Tug of Death". The story was an adaptation of Fantastic Four #6 (Sept. 1962), but since Grantray-Lawrence Animation did not own rights to the Fantastic Four, the producers substituted the X-Men — although referring to them instead as "Allies for Peace". However, the characters retained their original designs and individual names from the comics.
- The Avengers — Episode 8 of The Incredible Hulk was an adaptation of Avengers #2 (Nov. 1963), and co-starred Thor, Iron Man (with his early golden armor recolored to match the red-and-gold design featured in the Iron Man episodes), Giant-Man, the Wasp. The lineup beginning in Avengers #4 (March 1964), with Thor, Iron Man, Giant-Man, the Wasp and the newly installed Captain America, appears in several Captain America episodes, as does the later line-up from Avengers #16 with Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch.
Episodes
Each episode consisted of three chapters.
Captain America
A Captain America title card
- Episode 1: The Origin of Captain America, Wreckers Among Us, Enter Red Skull
- Episode 2: The Sentinel and the Spy, The Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull, Lest Tyranny Triumph
- Episode 3: Midnight in Greymoor Castle, If This Be Treason, When You Lie Down With Dogs
- Episode 4: Return of Captain America, The Search, To Live Again
- Episode 5: Zemo and the Masters of Evil, Zemo Strikes, The Fury of Zemo
- Episode 6: The Revenge of Captain America, The Trap Is Sprung, So Dies A Villain
- Episode 7: Let The Past Be Gone, The Adaptoid, The Super Adaptoid
- Episode 8: Coming of the Swordsman, Vengeance Is Ours, Emissary of Destruction
- Episode 9: Bitter Taste of Defeat, Sorcery Triumph, The Road Back
- Episode 10: Doorway to Doom, When the Commissar Commands, Duel Or Die
- Episode 11: The Sleeper Shall Awake, Where Walks the Sleeper, The Final Sleep
- Episode 12: The Girl from Cap's Past, The Stage Is Set, 30 Minutes to Live
- Episode 13: The Red Skull Lives, He Who Holds the Cosmic Cube, The Red Skull Supreme
The Incredible Hulk
One depiction of the Hulk in The Marvel Super Heroes
- Episode 1: The Origin of the Hulk, Enter the Gorgon, To Be a Man
- Episode 2: Terror of the Toadmen, Bruce Banner: Wanted For Treason, Hulk Runs Amok
- Episode 3: A Titan Rides the Train, The Horde of Humanoids, On the Rampage!
- Episode 4: The Power of Dr. Banner, Where Strides the Behemoth, Back from the Dead
- Episode 5: Micro Monsters, The Lair of the Leader, To Live Again
- Episode 6: Brawn Against Brain, Captured At Last, Enter the Chameleon
- Episode 7: Within this Monster Dwells a Man; Another World, Another Foe; The Wisdom of the Watcher
- Episode 8: The Space Phantom, Sting of the Wasp, Exit the Hulk
- Episode 9: Hulk vs. Metal Master, The Master Tests His Metal, Mind Over Metal
- Episode 10: The Ringmaster, Captive of the Circus, The Grand Finale
- Episode 11: Enter Tyrannus, Beauty & The Beast, They Dwell in the Depths
- Episode 12: Terror of the T-Gun, I Against A World, Bruce Banner is the Hulk
- Episode 13: The Man Called Boomerang; Hulk Intervenes; Less Than Monster, More Than Man
The Invincible Iron Man
One depiction of Iron Man in the series
- Episode 1: Double Disaster, Enter Happy Hogan, Of Ice and Men
- Episode 2: The Death of Tony Stark!, The Hands of the Mandarin, The Origin of The Mandarin
- Episode 3: Ultimo, Ultimo Lives, Crescendo
- Episode 4: The Mandarin's Revenge!, The Mandarin's Death Ray, No One Escapes the Mandarin
- Episode 5: Crimson Dynamo!, The Crimson Dynamo Strikes, Captured
- Episode 6: Enter Hawkeye, So Spins the Web, Triple Jeopardy
- Episode 7: If I Die, Let It Be With Honor; Fight On, For A World Is Watching; What Price Victory?
- Episode 8: The Moleman Strikes, The Dragon of the Flames, Decision Under the Earth
- Episode 9: The Other Iron Man!, Death Duel, Into The Jaws of the Death
- Episode 10: The Cliffs of Doom!, The False Captain America, The Unmasking
- Episode 11: My Life For Yours, The Black Knight's Gambit, The Menace of the Monster
- Episode 12: The Dream Master, If A Man Be Mad, Duel In Space
- Episode 13: Beauty and the Armor, Peril in Space, As A City Watches
The Mighty Thor
- Episode 1: Trapped by Loki, The Vengeance of Loki, The Defeat of Loki
- Episode 2: Chained Evil; Sandu, Master of the Supernatural; Enchanted Hammer
- Episode 3: Enchantress and Executioner, Giants Walk the Earth, Battle of the Gods
- Episode 4: At the Mercy of Loki, Trial of the Gods, Return To Earth
- Episode 5: The Absorbing Man; In My Hands, This Hammer; Vengeance of the Thunder God
- Episode 6: To Kill A Thunder God, The Day of the Destroyer, Terror of the Tomb
- Episode 7: The Grey Gargoyle, The Wrath of Odin, Triumph in Stone
- Episode 8: The Mysterious Mister Hyde, Revenge of Mr. Hyde, Thor's Showdown with Mr. Hyde
- Episode 9: Every Hand Against Him, The Power of the Thunder God, The Power of Odin
- Episode 10: The Tomorrow Man, Return of Zarrko, Slave of Tomorrow Man
- Episode 11: Enter Hercules, When Meet Immortals, Whom the Gods Would Destroy
- Episode 12: The Power of Pluto, The Verdict of Zeus, Thunder in the Netherworld
- Episode 13: Molto, the Lava Man; Invasion of the Lava Man; Living Rock
Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner
- Episode 1: Peril in the Surface World, So Spreads the Net, The Unveiling
- Episode 2: The Start of the Quest!, Escape to Nowhere, A Prince There Was
- Episode 3: Not All My Power Can Save Me!, When Fails the Quest, The End of the Quest
- Episode 4: Atlantis Under Attack, The Sands of Terror, The Iron Idol of Infamy
- Episode 5: The Thing from Space, No Escape for Namor, A Prince Dies Fighting
- Episode 6: To Conquer a Crown, A Prince No More, He Who Wears the Crown
- Episode 7: To Walk Amongst Men!, When Rises the Behemoth, To the Death
- Episode 8: The World Within!, Atlantis Is Doomed, Quest for X-Atom
- Episode 9: Beware the Siren Song, Spell of Lorelei, Return of the Mud Beast
- Episode 10: Ship of Doom, Fall of Atlantis, Forces of Vengeance
- Episode 11: The Planet of Doom, To Test a Prince, To Save a Planet
- Episode 12: Dr. Doom's Day, The Doomed Allegiance, Tug of Death
- Episode 13: Let the Stranger Die..!, To Destroy a Tyrant, Save A City
Stations
Source: Marvel Comics house ads in Strange Tales #150 (Nov. 1966) and The Amazing Spider-Man #45 (Feb. 1967), each of which said the list was "incomplete at time of publication".
- Alphabetized by city
- WTEN-TV / Channel 10 • Albany, New York
- WBAL / Channel 11 • Baltimore, Maryland
- WNEM / Channel 5 • Bay City/Saginaw, Michigan
- WNAC / Channel 7 • Boston, Massachusetts
- WKBW / Channel 7 • Buffalo, New York
- WAZ / Channel 3 • Charleston, West Virginia (became WSAZ / Channel 3 • Huntington, West Virginia)
- WCCB-TV / Channel 18• Charlotte, North Carolina
- WGN / Channel 9 • Chicago, Illinois
- CKLW / Channel 9 • Detroit, Michigan (became CBET / Channel 9 • Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
- KWGN-TV / Channel 2• Denver, Colorado
- KATV/ Channel 7• Little Rock, Arkansas
- KHJ (became KCAL-TV) / Channel 9 • Los Angeles, California
- WHBQ / Channel 13 • Memphis, Tennessee
- WVUE / Channel 12 • New Orleans, Louisiana
- WOR (became WWOR) / Channel 9 • New York City, New York
- KYW / Channel 3 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- WPGH-TV / Channel 53 • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- WGAN (now WGME) / Channel 13 • Portland, Maine
- WPRO (became WPRI) / Channel 12 • Providence, Rhode Island
- WHEC / Channel 10 • Rochester, New York
- KSD (became KSDK) / Channel 5 • St. Louis, Missouri
- KCPX (became KTVX) / Channel 4 • Salt Lake City, Utah (ad erroneously listed station as WCPX)
- WAPA / Channel 4 • San Juan, Puerto Rico
- WHEN (became WTVH) / Channel 5 • Syracuse, New York
- WTTG / Channel 5 • Washington, D.C.
See also
In Spanish: The Marvel Super Heroes para niños
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