Tuesday 2 May 2017

1982: MARVEL'S ANNIE MOVIE ADAPTATION

From late 1982: The sun will come out tomorrow... the two-part Marvel adaptation of the ANNIE musical movie, another long-forgotten outing from the celluloid-obsessed publisher prone to adapting any film which looked like it might be a hit.  And another musical... despite the obvious problems with trying to translate music onto the printed page.

Annie, of course, started life as a comic strip... so you can almost see the logic.  And maybe Marvel hoped that it would breakout beyond their core readership of teenage boys.  I doubt this run - and the Superspecial magazine which published the same material - registered very highly on the Marvel sales charts.  Which probably makes them some of the rarer Marvel Comics of the period.  I picked them up from a 50p box.





3 comments:

  1. Albert Finney would have been a shoo-in for Lex Luthor at the time.


    One of marvel's more bizarre offerings along with XANADU, the musical misfire.

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  2. Or Sgt. Pepper. An adaptation Marvel didn't even bother to publish in English. The film is an oddity with Frankie Howerd as the villain.

    XANADU has a cracking soundtrack. Just a shame about the film itself.

    But nothing tops THE APPLE. I would pay good money to see that on stage.

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  3. Agreed about the XANADU music, I have it on cd but the movie wasn't a critical or commercial hit at the time.

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