From 15 March 1978: A MARVEL UK House Ad for the sixth issue of STAR WARS WEEKLY (with art from the third US issue) as well as a plug for the impending British cinema release of the SPIDER-MAN TV pilot.
If you've ever seen the premiere episode, you'll know that (in addition to being generally underwhelming) it also suffers from some remarkably bad effects work (notably some crappy CSO/ Blue Screen work) which must have looked incredibly poor magnified on the big screen.
The show didn't reach British TV until late 1981.
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ReplyDeleteI'd always thought it was 1979 not 1978 that I saw the Spider-Man pilot/movie at the cinema - tried to do a bit of googling on the subject but couldn't find the UK release dates :(
ReplyDeleteHere's another MARVEL UK feature, from March 1978, about the movie.
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It was re-released later in the year and M-UK covered it in a December dispatch:
http://starlogged.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/1978-spider-man-movie-publicity-marvel.html
There were two sequels (both mainstays of the VHS era... and apparently always available from Woolworths but they have never been released on DVD), is it possible that you saw one of those?
Thanks for those links, SR - no, it was definitely the original/pilot one that I saw as I recognised the plot when I was reading up on it.
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