Yup. The one with the Spock-alike android and - even better - those high-tech cars zipping around some familiar looking (if you'd been watching PLANET OF THE APES a few seasons earlier) California countryside.
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Friday, 5 May 2017
1977: LOGAN'S RUN: THE TV SERIES
From 1977: STARLOGGED celebrates the biggest genre event of the year! The debut of LOGAN'S RUN (aka LOGAN... although you have to wonder why)... the TV series.
Yup. The one with the Spock-alike android and - even better - those high-tech cars zipping around some familiar looking (if you'd been watching PLANET OF THE APES a few seasons earlier) California countryside.
Yup. The one with the Spock-alike android and - even better - those high-tech cars zipping around some familiar looking (if you'd been watching PLANET OF THE APES a few seasons earlier) California countryside.
Thursday, 13 October 2016
1977: LOGAN'S RUN ISSUE 1 (MARVEL COMICS)
From January 1977 (but published late the previous year): the first issue of Marvel's brief dalliance with the LOGAN'S RUN franchise.
The MGM movie tie-in proved short-lived... canned after only seven months on the stands. The swift end was apparently down to licensing issues surrounding the creation of new material and the launch of the TV incarnation (the rights to which weren't covered in the Marvel deal... restricting comic strip versions to the British annual and the weekly LOOK-IN strip). Sales probably looked pretty puny once the STAR WARS juggernaut blasted into town a few months later.
Marvel UK didn't run these strips, possibly for the self-same licensing reasons, but - as the 10p cover price tells - copies were shipped to the UK as part of the bundle that went to British newsagents.
The MGM movie tie-in proved short-lived... canned after only seven months on the stands. The swift end was apparently down to licensing issues surrounding the creation of new material and the launch of the TV incarnation (the rights to which weren't covered in the Marvel deal... restricting comic strip versions to the British annual and the weekly LOOK-IN strip). Sales probably looked pretty puny once the STAR WARS juggernaut blasted into town a few months later.
Marvel UK didn't run these strips, possibly for the self-same licensing reasons, but - as the 10p cover price tells - copies were shipped to the UK as part of the bundle that went to British newsagents.
Friday, 21 November 2014
1978: LOGAN'S RUN Issue 1 (Marvel Comics)
From January 1977 (so it probably went on sale in the States a couple of months earlier): the first issue of Marvel's LOGAN'S RUN movie tie-in book... another venture into licensed properties for the House Of Ideas.
This one, despite being spun-off from the hit film, mustered only seven issues before being cancelled. The early pink slip was apparently because of some murky rights issues around the TV series (which launched in September of that year as an early attempt to grab some small screen STAR WARS magic). The early termination is a shame as this might well have outlived the telly version (which was lost in the wilderness after only 14 episodes) and gone on to a reasonable run basking in the STAR AGE glow.
Gerry Conway was the writer, George Perez supplied cover and interior art (inked by Klaus Janson).
There was no MARVEL UK edition although LOOK-IN did run a two-page weekly take on the TV show from April-September 1978. The six-month run was illustrated by Arthur Ranson.
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