The Marvel Super Heroes Advertisements, Circa 1966
The Marvel Super Heroes was a Canadian-produced, syndicated cartoon that premiered in the fall of 1966 on stations in the United States and around the world. The series was broadcast in strip syndication, meaning a new episode aired every weekday. Each episode consisted of three seven-minute shorts featuring one of five Marvel characters: Captain America (Mondays), The Incredible Hulk (Tuesdays), The Invincible Iron Man (Wednesdays), The Mighty Thor (Thursdays) and Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner (Fridays). A total of 65 episodes were produced, thirteen for each character, with a total of 195 segments.
The following four advertisements for The Marvel Super Heroes come straight from the pages of Marvel’s The Avengers comic book. Do note that comic books are typically published two or three months prior to the cover date. Thus, the first advertisement likely appeared in July or August of 1966, a month or two before the series debuted in syndication, giving comic book readers time to find the series on a location station.
Continue reading to see three more advertisements.
Outside of the United States, The Marvel Super Heroes was seen in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Japan, Argentina, Australia, Uruguay and Canada.
Image Credits:
2 From The Avengers #34, November 1966, Page 29.
3 From The Avengers #35, December 1966, Page 29.
4 From The Avengers #36, January 1967, Page 29.
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March 17th, 2010 at 3:14PM
I love looking at old TV show ads especially if there are channels included…I noticed most of them were probably independent stations, which are too few and far between because of cable and satellites…God I miss those days.
What I thought was neat are the foreign channels mentioned.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:08AM
According to comic experts, this issue went on sale August 9, 1966.