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Super Movie Monday – The Rocketeer


After seeing Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger last week, I decided to revisit The Rocketeer, the film which convinced the producers of Captain America to give Johnston the job.

The Rocketeer was a 1991 Disney picture based on the marvelous 80′s comic by the late Dave Stevens. The story takes place in 1930′s Hollywood, and features young pilot Cliff Secord trying to avoid gangsters, spies and government agents, all trying to get their hands on a top secret rocket pack that has fallen into Secord’s hands.

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Monday, August 1st, 2011   Tags:   Category: Featured, Super Movie Monday  3 Comments comments

Out of the Vault – Captain America’s First Appearance,


In early 1941, before the United States had even officially entered the war, the iconic American soldier appeared on the cover of his debut issue socking Hitler in the jaw. This was, of course, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s Captain America, a scene that is lovingly parodied in Joe Johnston’s movie, Captain America: The First Avenger.

So let’s revisit that first Captain America story and see what it was like.

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Saturday, July 30th, 2011   Tags: , , ,   Category: Featured, Out of the Vault  1 Comment comments

Super Movie Monday – The Shadow Strikes, 1937

So it looks as if this will be the last week of Origins, unless I find something extraordinary for next week. I almost didn’t find anything for today, but at the last minute, I grabbed this early Shadow film, since the masked men of the pulps were an influence on costumed superheroes generally, and the Shadow was an influence on Batman directly, and this film came out two years before Batman’s debut.

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Monday, July 25th, 2011   Tags: , ,   Category: Featured, Super Movie Monday  No Comments comments

Powerful Pages – The Curse of Capistrano, by Johnston McCulley

You probably know this story better under the title The Mark of Zorro. First serialized in five segments in 1919 in All-Story Weekly, The Curse of Capistrano was then adapted into the feature film The Mark of Zorro in 1920 (see Movie Monday for more information).

So here’s something you should know about me, right off the bat. I’ve always been a bit of a Zorro fan. I liked the two Antonio Banderas Zorro films.  I think the climactic duel between Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone in the 1940 version is one of the best pure swordfights I’ve ever seen. I even liked the goofy Italian version that came out in 1975 starring Alain Delon and Stanley Baker (“la-la-la-la-la-la, Zorro’s back”).

So it was a bit of a shock to read

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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011   Tags: , , ,   Category: Featured, Powerful Pages  No Comments comments

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