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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 5, 2019 19:48:47 GMT
Been so long since I looked at these, I had forgotten that they sometimes have pictures from the actual movie on the inside of the front cover and sometimes on the back one, too!   |
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Post by sostie on Mar 5, 2019 20:48:54 GMT
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Post by sostie on Mar 5, 2019 20:53:34 GMT
I remember the comic book adaptations of the '70s/'80s blockbusters which started with Star Wars, but I had no idea such things existed for all of these older classics! I want to collect them all now - I must have that King Kong adaptation! Well an original 1968 print will only set you back $80 near mint (or $50 for the 1978 re-print) 
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Post by sostie on Mar 5, 2019 21:03:44 GMT
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Post by claudius on Mar 5, 2019 22:06:38 GMT
sostie, that ESCAPE record book must have been fun reading for kids... Anyhoo, is there any deviations or liberties from these comic book adaptations you wish to comment? I read the BEN-HUR comic adaptation (or one of them) removed the leprosy and just rendered the Hur women with immense fatigue. I recall the BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES comic kept Taylor in the loincloth to the end. The DC STAR TREK III THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK adaptation had Kirk & company wear their uniforms in their commandeering the Enterpise/fighting the Klingons at Genesis, etc. Now some of these changes were based from the original script before the finished product deleted them. The Marvel STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE kept the 'Kirk accompanies Spock in the space trip' scene (dropped from the film). The Marvel EMPIRE STRIKES BACK adaptation had a thinner, fully silver-haired, purple-skinned Yoda (this was changed when the adaptation was re-published in the STAR WARS comic series). The ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU adaptation kept the film's deleted hints to the inevitable ending... Barbara Carerra's Panther Woman reverting back to animal form, which puts the protagonist in a very problematic situation.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 5, 2019 22:18:22 GMT
Jabba the Hutt in the 1977 Star Wars comic is humanoid (since the scene where Han Solo talks to him about Greedo's death is included).
That Island of Dr Moreau comic makes me realize that I had a Mandela Effect reaction to the movie because I thought for sure she changed back in the movie (haven't seen it in years)!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 5, 2019 22:38:39 GMT
RE: story changes Ben-Hur speaking to Messala : ..Long enough to find the house of Hur in RUINS... and my mother and sister in the Valley of the Lepers! It is all your doing...I intend to destroy you ! "Esther and Ben-Hur return from the Valley of the Lepers with Miriam and Tirzah" The city is deserted and the ladies in leper robes are shown. following is a panel with Crosses and then Ben-Hur's sister says : We are clean, Mother ! We are well. Mother: it is true! A Miracle, It is as if HE had given us HIS life.
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Post by sostie on Mar 5, 2019 23:12:54 GMT
sostie, that ESCAPE record book must have been fun reading for kids... . If only I bought it as a kid Managed to pick up 3 or 4 copies of each still sealed a few years ago (50p each!!!) and have yet to get round to read/listen to them
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Post by claudius on Mar 6, 2019 1:26:08 GMT
Thanks BATouttaheck, it was one of the BH adaptations, not for the film, but an earlier 1939 strip from a title known as POPULAR COMICS that had that change.
Primemovermithrax Pejorative, I believe there was a deleted shot heavily implying that.
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