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Fantastic Fanzines! Funny Face Collectibles! Where does he get those wonderful toys? Winter 2019 Super Collector’s No. 3 $8.95 Superhero Swag! He Made Us Believe A Man Can Fly! EXCLUSIVE Interview with Visit Metropolis... Home of the Superman Celebration IRWIN ALLEN SEA-MONKEYS® Aquaman in THEN 6 Animation AND 0 NOW 5 1 0 0 8 5 6 2 Fantastic Fanzines! Funny Face Collectibles! 8 Ernest Farino • Andy Mangels • Scott Saavedra • and the Oddball World of Scott Shaw! 1 Superman, Joker, and Aquaman TM & © DC Comics. Sea-Monkeys® © Transcience L.L.C. All Rights Reserved. The crazy cool culture we grew up with Columns and Special Departments Features 3 2 CONTENTS Retro Interview Retrotorial Issue #3 | Winter 2019 Superman Director Richard Donner 10 Too Much TV Quiz 18 52 Andy Mangels’ Retro 13 Saturday Mornings Retro Food & Drink Aquaman in Animation Funny Face Drink Mix Collectibles 31 Retro Television 28 Irwin Allen: Voyage to the 58 RetroFad Bottom of… the Barrel? Afros 43 39 Scott Saavedra’s Retro Games 67 Secret Sanctum Atari’s 1979 Superman Sea-Monkeys® 67 52 Retro Travel 18 The Oddball World of Superman Celebration – Scott Shaw! Metropolis, Illinois Amazing Spider-Man and Incredible Hulk Toilet Paper 73 Super Collector 58 Superman and Batman Ernest Farino’s Retro collectibles, by Chris Franklin Fantasmagoria Fantastic Fanzines 79 RetroFanmail 43 80 13 ReJECTED RetroFan fantasy cover by 31 Scott Saavedra RetroFan™ #3, Winter 2019. Published quarterly by TwoMorrows Publishing, 10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27614. Michael Eury, Editor. John Morrow, Publisher. Editorial Office: RetroFan, c/o Michael Eury, Editor, 112 Fairmount Way, New Bern, NC 28562. Email: [email protected]. Four-issue subscriptions: $38 Economy US, $63 International, $16 Digital Only. Please send subscription orders and funds to TwoMorrows, NOT to the editorial office. Superman, Aquaman, and the Joker TM & © DC Comics. Sea-Monkeys® TM Transcience LLC. All Rights Reserved. All characters are © their respective companies. All material © their creators unless otherwise noted. All editorial matter © 2018 Michael Eury and TwoMorrows. Printed in China. FIRST PRINTING. ISSN 2576-7224 Richard Donner The Man Who Made Superman Fly Richard Donner (center) and crew members in 1977 on location in Manhattan, doubling as Metropolis, during the filming of Superman. This photo appeared in DC Comics’ All-New Collectors’ Edition #C-62 (Superman: The Movie). © Warner Bros. Superman TM & © DC Comics. Conducted by Glenn Greenberg Remove Superman: The Movie (1978) from Richard Donner’s On a film where so many things could have gone wrong, filmography and he would still be the man who directed The Omen Donner got so much right, from bringing in his friend, screenwriter (1976), The Goonies (1985), and all four Lethal Weapon films (1987– Tom Mankiewicz, to rework the screenplay (which had gone 1998). An impressive list, to be sure. through drafts by Mario Puzo, David and Leslie Newman, and But with Superman, Donner became the father of the modern Robert Benton), to hiring composer John Williams to create what comic-book superhero movie, through his vision of taking the just may be his greatest movie score ever, to casting Christopher subject matter seriously—though not without a healthy dose of Reeve in the title role—and, just as importantly, Margot Kidder as fun and humor—and giving it a real-world aesthetic, a grandeur, Lois Lane. Any one of those elements could have made Superman a and a respect that the genre never really had before. decent film. All of them combined made it a bona fide classic, the RetroFan Winter 2019 3 Retro Interview: Richard Donner RD: At that age? RF: Yeah. RD: It was just escapism. I mean, we were kids, we’d come home from school after playing in the yard or somewhere on the school grounds, and our reading material would be whatever the newest comic book was that came out. I don’t know if it’s going on today—today it’s TV instead. But it was a comic book and every page was a phenomenal one to turn, and you lived the fantasies, between Superman and—now you’re gonna make me think of the others and I can’t—I mean, hundreds of them. Dick Tracy, Shazam!—what was that, Captain Marvel? RF: Yep! RD: And Superman was one that stuck with me, but no more than any of the others. Until, of course, he came into my life again many, many years later. Superman: The Movie lobby card signed by star Christopher Reeve. © Warner Bros. Superman RF: Right. Now when he did come into TM & © DC Comics. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions (www.ha.com). your life again many, many years later, in your view, going into this project, who was Superman, to you? Who is Superman? shadow of which looms over everything RD: Holy s***! Okay. What qualities did you feel needed to be that has come in its wake. there to really capture the character well? To commemorate the 40th anniversary RF: [laughter] My first question is going to RD: Well, the qualities were really our of Superman: The Movie’s original theatrical take you way back. I understand that you heritage, because the interesting thing release, Richard Donner agreed to a phone used to read Superman comics as a kid. is—I had no eyes to do a movie called interview on November 6, 2017, to discuss RD: Sure. Superman. But when it was sent to me, with the film and its enduring legacy. a ridiculous offer, I took it upon myself RF: What did you like about them? What to read it and was very disappointed. RetroFan: It’s really an honor to speak was the appeal to you? Because they were making a parody to you. Richard Donner: My pleasure, kid. What are we talking about? RF: We are talking about the 40th anniversary of Superman: The Movie, which is coming up fast and furiously. RD: The 40th anniversary? RF: Yeah! Believe it or not. Christopher Reeve in his Clark Kent suit and Donner on the Superman set. From All-New Collectors’ Edition #C-62. © Warner Bros. Superman TM & © DC Comics. 4 RetroFan Winter 2019 RETRO FOOD & DRINK The Saga Move Over, Kool-Aid Man, There’s Some New Fruit in Town! by John Schwirian Funny Face is fun to drink, actually created them for my daughter, Jill, who was about four The one to drink when you’re having fun! years old at the time,” Silverman wrote in a post on the Retroland Funny Face is fun to drink, website in 2013. “My nickname for her was Freckle Face—and from Fun to drink for everyone! that beginning, all the characters just fell into place. Needless to say, my daughter—and all her friends—had a wonderful time That’s how the jingle went in the early television commercials— playing with the names, and pretending to be the characters.” and it was true. Kids really found Funny Face fun to drink! Of While Silverman sketched out the initial designs for the characters, course, zany characters and great mail-away premiums didn’t hurt the final art used on the packages was drawn by Lowell Herrera any, either. (1921–2015). In the early Sixties, Kool-Aid was the undisputed powdered- The original six characters (and flavors) hit the stores in 1964, drink-mix king. However, consumers were unhappy over the consisting of Freckle Face Strawberry, Goofy Grape, Loud-Mouth amount of sugar used in the preparation of a pitcher of Kool- Lime, Rootin’ Tootin’ Raspberry, Chinese Cherry, and Injun Orange. Aid. In an effort to combat this dissatisfaction, companies were Don’t remember the last two? That’s because they were replaced searching for a substitute for sugar, an alternate that arrived in the next year by Choo Choo Cherry and Jolly Olly Orange. Reports the form of an artificial sweetener named sodium cyclamate. are mixed as to whether there were complaints from the public Pillsbury processed sodium cyclamate into the product Sweet*10 or if it was strictly an internal decision, but Chinese Cherry and in 1962, which allowed them Injun Orange were deemed to create foods that could inappropriate and offensive. be advertised as “sugar free” “At the time,” Silverman and “artificially sweetened.” explained, “I was naive enough With sugar eliminated, moms not to realize that the names approved and sales rose on Chinese Cherry and Injun these products. Orange could be hurtful to Chinese and Native Americans. A Funny Face for Every My sincere apologies, at Taste this late date, to anyone I Encouraged by the promise offended.” of Sweet*10, Pillsbury decided Pillsbury employed an to challenge Kool-Aid with its aggressive marketing strategy own powdered drink mix. In to launch the new drink mix. 1963, Pillsbury hired Campbell Look at the mugs on these mugs! From the collection of John While the Kool-Aid Man had Mithun Advertising to design a Schwirian, Funny Face mugs. (FRONT ROW) Goofy Grape, Freckle to represent every flavor of face for its product. Inspired by Face Strawberry, Lefty Lemon. (CENTER ROW) Choo Choo Cherry, Kool-Aid, Pillsbury provided his daughter, Creative Director Jolly Olly Orange, Loud-Mouth Punch. (BACK ROW) Chug-a-Lug different cartoon characters Hal Silverman dreamed up Chocolate, Rudy Tutti Frutti, With-It Watermelon. © Brady Enterprises. for each flavor, making it the Funny Face characters. “I easy for children to spot their RetroFan Winter 2019 13 Retro Food & Drink Funny Face store signs and displays from the Sixties and Seventies, from the collection of Jim Rash. To view more of Jim’s Funny Face collection, or to contact him if you have Funny Face items to sell, visit www.funnyfacedrinkmix.com.
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