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E-mail: [email protected] TwoMorrows Publishing • 10407 Bedfordtown Drive • Raleigh, NC 27614 USA Web: www.twomorrows.com 66 27 The crazy cool culture we grew up with CONTENTS Issue #9 June 2020 43 Columns and Special Features Departments 3 2 Retro Super-Heroes Retrotorial TV Captain America Reb Brown interview 10 Too Much TV Quiz 20 Scott Saavedra’s 13 Secret Sanctum Retro Toys Ad Men & Women: The Wonderful World of Favorite Characters from TV Coloring Books Commercials 27 33 33 Retro Brit Retro Television Benny Hill Captain Nice 58 30 38 RetroFad Retro Interview 8-Track Tapes William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett 64 3 Celebrity Crushes 43 Andy Mangels’ Retro 73 Saturday Morning Retro Travel 13 Cartoon Preview Specials, The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Part One Convention – Hunt Valley, Maryland 58 Oddball World of 78 Scott Shaw! RetroFanmail America’s Best TV Comics (1968) 20 80 66 ReJECTED Ernest Farino’s Retro RetroFan fantasy cover by Fantasmagoria Scott Saavedra The Cyclops RetroFan™ #9, June 2020. Published bimonthly by TwoMorrows Publishing, 10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27614. Michael Eury, Editor-in-Chief. John Morrow, Publisher. Editorial Office: RetroFan, c/o Michael Eury, Editor-in-Chief, 112 Fairmount Way, New Bern, NC 28562. Email: [email protected]. Six-issue subscriptions: $67 Economy US, $101 International, $27 Digital. Please send subscription orders and funds to TwoMorrows, NOT to the editorial office. Captain America cover artwork by Lin Workman. Captain America, the Thing, Mr. Fantastic © Marvel. Captain Nice © NBC. The Cyclops © Allied Artists. All Rights Reserved. All characters are © their respective companies. All material © their creators unless otherwise noted. All editorial matter © 2020 Michael Eury and TwoMorrows. Printed in China. FIRST PRINTING. ISSN 2576-7224 RETRO SUPER-HEROES REBREB BROWNBROWN The Motorcycling Captain America of Seventies TV by Michael Eury Muscular, chisel-jawed athlete Reb Brown started his screen- Pumped up into a super-soldier, acting career on the wrong end of a snake attack in the 1973 chiller Rogers—initially with great Sssssss. He soon found no end of work making guest appearances reluctance—followed in the in many popular TV series of the Seventies and Eighties including footsteps of his father, the Kojak, Emergency!, The Six Million Dollar Man, CHiPs, Happy Days, original crimefighter dubbed Three’s Company, The Rockford Files, The Love Boat, and Miami Vice. “Captain America,” but quickly Brown is also no stranger to the big screen, with many of his proved worthy of wearing the roles taking advantage of his physicality. His film credits include legendary patriotic battlesuit. Big Wednesday (1978), Hardcore (1979), Yor, the Hunter from the The airing of Reb Brown’s (TOP) Reb Brown revs into Future (1983), Uncommon Valor (1983), The Howling II (1985), Death Captain America telefilms action as Captain America. of a Soldier (1986), Distant Thunder (1988), Space Mutiny (1988), Cage followed CBS’ previous Captain America TM & © Marvel. Photo © Universal Television. (1989) and Cage II (1994), and more recently, Surge of Power: Revenge successes with Marvel-inspired Scan courtesy of Andy Mangels. of the Sequel (2016) and Surge of Dawn (2019). live-action series The Amazing (ABOVE) Reb Brown in 2018 Yet to many RetroFans Reb Brown is Captain America, Spider-Man and The Incredible at a store appearance at having played Marvel Comics’ Sentinel of Liberty in two made- Hulk, plus a 1978 live-action Krypton Comics in Omaha, for-TV movies produced by Universal Television that aired Doctor Strange television Nebraska. Photo by Cornstalker/ Wikimedia Commons. on CBS in 1979. Like Christopher Reeve, who at the time had movie—all of which were personified DC Comics’ Man of Steel in December 1978’s big- riding a wave of TV super-hero budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie, Brown was the spitting popularity that also included The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic image of the comic-book crusader he portrayed with his broad Woman, and Wonder Woman. Despite revving onto the small shoulders, shock of blond hair, and earnest demeanor. Liberties screen on a red, white, and blue motorcycle—and often bursting with the subject matter were taken with both Captain America into action careening the bike from the back of a van—Brown’s movies, sidestepping the traditional World War II setting for Captain America arrived a bit too late to fully enjoy the Seventies’ a contemporary tale of Steve Rogers, Jr., a drifter/artist given comic-hero trend and his two telefilms unfortunately did not superhuman abilities via the injection of the “FLAG formula.” receive the green light for a weekly TV series.