The Super Friends Vs. Doctor Doom

There was a lot of hoopla a few weeks back with the release of four teaser trailers for Avengers: Doomsday.  I thought that they were fine, if a bit premature for a film almost a year away from hitting the theaters.  They didn't reveal much that anyone who follows movie news didn't know about already, but I guess the purpose they served was to get the conversation rolling for general audiences who don't pay as much attention.  I think that marketing will stay quiet for a while and really ramp up in half a year or so from now.  

Doctor Doom confronted the Legion of Doom back in STF #4171...

The Super-Friends Vs. Galactus

 

While the movie had it's issues, it was still great to see Galactus finally realized properly in Fantastic Four: First Steps.  The sense of scale in the scenes featuring the World Devourer was very well done and the vocal performance suited the villain well.  Now that he's been checked of the list, I am hoping to see Annihilus and a Thing/Hulk fight in the FF's next cinematic outing.

Galactus met Apache Chief of the Super Friends in one of the Back-Up Stories in STF #3300...

The Super Friends and The X-Men

 

The Disney+ X-Men '97 animated series keeps getting pushed back, but I am  interested to see how it turns out.  Will it take right after the original cartoon left off, or will a few years have passed?  Will they be sticking closely to the original designs and look?  The first series followed the comics pretty closely, so I expect that this follow up will continue along that path.

The Super Friends and The Super Globetrotters

I'm sure there are a number of reasons why such a show would never make it to air today, but as a kid I got a big kick out of  The Super-Globetrotters.  I loved comics, superheroes and basketball, so this cartoon definitely caught my attention.  I remember enjoying watching the live action Harlem Globetrotters games against the hapless Generals - man, that bucket of confetti gag got me every time! 

 

Super-Friends and The Fantastic Four

 

For years I have been trying to find clean copies of the  Fantastic Four cartoons that originally appeared on Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure.  I've only ever seen wobbly VHS copies of them.  I was hoping they would show up on Disney+, but they aren't among the various FF cartoons offered there.  Recently my hopes were raised when I saw that HBO Max had the original Jonny Quest and some other HB cartoons on there.  Still no FF though.  These cartoons were taken directly from Stan Lee's first stories and stuck close to Jack Kirby's designs, I'd love to see crisp versions of them someday.  I wonder who is holding on to the rights?

Northstar & Aurora and The Wonder Twins

 

With all of Marvels many film and TV projects in various stages of development, I am surprised we have not heard as much of a whisper about any plans for Alpha Flight.   Canada's premiere super-group would be a great addition to the MCU, it has a roster of unique and well defined heroes.  Besides, we need another brother-sister team seeing as Pietro Maximoff didn't end up returning after all in Wanda/Vision.

Super Friends and Guardians of the Galaxy

 

As a kid I thought that The Wonder Twins were an improvement over Wendy and Marvin, who seemed pretty useless on The Super Friends.  At least they had powers and could join in on the action.  Still, if they had to have more teens on the team, I would have preferred they used established DC characters like Wondergirl, Aqualad or Kid Flash.