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Gene Best
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Holy Time Warp!  I haven't heard/seen this in over 30 years!  I owned this when I was a kid ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w22KD-drS1o

Any other Nostalgic Rockomic Owners among us?

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I had that as a kid but unfortuanely I beat the hell out of it.

Spiderman and Doctor Strange vs. Kingpin! Infact that voice on the phone announcing that Aunt May is caught is STILL how  I imagine the Kingpin sounds.

I think the same Christmas I got that I also got a Die-Cast Enterprise and Klingon ship that fired plastic pellets. The Enterprise also had two little fold out doors on the bottom where you could impale a little orange shuttlecraft on a peg. (not where it went on the TV show) In fac,t I also got a diecast Imperial STar Destoyer with a little Blockade Runner that could fit in the belly bay and be "catured.

So this would have been...maybe 1979?

 

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Hmmm, I had something like this.
Record: 45 rpm
Booklet: Spider-Man comic.
Think it had a battle with the lizrd, or something. The story had a
sewer in it.
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The songs were produced by Ron Dante, known mostly for his work on the Archie cartoon music. The voice of Spider-Man is Rene Auberjonois. I was lucky enough to download the MP3 version of this when Mr. Dante had the audio posted on his website.

It seems very basic hearing it today, but it served to bring kids up to speed on the comic book Spider-Man with one story. I think this is the only Spider-Man audio play ever done.
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Hmmm, I had something like this.
Record: 45 rpm
Booklet: Spider-Man comic.
Think it had a battle with the lizrd, or something. The story had a
sewer in it.

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I had something like this, too, except the story was Spider-Man vs. the Man-Wolf. I loved it - I must've listened to it a hundred times.

I do remember there was one small glitch in the record. The narrator refers to Peter Parker's warm-hearted, generous employer as "Jonah J. Jameson" instead of "J. Jonah Jameson."

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I recall something similar for Adam Strange on television.

Aha!  The old Sub-Mariner cartoon intro!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWeaHkxXwE

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In case any of you missed it, I put links to videos I made that are on YouTube that have to do with the Merry Marvel Marching Society recordings from the 1960s. I put visuals to the audio, which includes some scenes from the old Marvel Super-Heroes cartoons:

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15684 &PN=2&totPosts=135

The links are a few pages into the thread.

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Hmmm, I had something like this.
Record: 45 rpm
Booklet: Spider-Man comic.
Think it had a battle with the lizrd, or something. The story had a
sewer in it.

**************

I had something like this, too, except the story was Spider-Man vs. the Man-Wolf. I loved it - I must've listened to it a hundred times.

I do remember there was one small glitch in the record. The narrator refers to Peter Parker's warm-hearted, generous employer as "Jonah J. Jameson" instead of "J. Jonah Jameson."

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Ah, memories ...

Both of these were Power Records releases from the early 70's.  Power releases several book & record sets featuring adaptations of actual Marvel Comics (Man-Thing, The Fantastic Four, Captain America are the only ones I remember).

Spider-Man had actually two books - one which was an adaptation of ASM #124 (Man Wolf), and the other which featured a villian called "Draco the Dragon" (which I think was originally on this Rockomic release, as well).

Power also released a nice set of Planet of the Apes adaptations, which made the stories more digestable for little kids.  (Well, at least for me.  LOL)

Edited for typos - I shouldn't post before my first cup of coffee!

 

 



Edited by Gene Best on 06 December 2006 at 10:06am
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Glenn Greenberg
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I still have my copy.

Got JR Sr. to sign it, too!
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Brian O'Neill
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Rene Auberjonois as the voice of Spider-Man?

Now, I'm imaging Clayton Endicot III from Benson, saying "KINGpin, KINGpin, KINGpin!"

 

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Is this the one that has the theme song that starts with (IIRC):

"Crawls like a spider
 Walks like a man
 wall crawling super-hero
 They call him Spider-Man
 Amazing
 Amazing
 How does he ever win..."

or somesuch.

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Tim Gillespie
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I just dug my copy out - the copyright date says 1972.

I doubt I've listened to this since I bought it way back when - I do remember the music being embarassingly bad. A nice little curiosity piece, tho.

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