COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Logan's Run 1 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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3922900013
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Owner:
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Qalyar
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Logan's Run hit the theaters in June of 1976, and the first issue of the comic book adaptation hit the newsstands less than four months later (despite the 1977 publication date, this issue went on sale in mid-October of the previous year). If all of this had happened a year later, it's likely the mini-series would have been preceded by an issue of Marvel Super Special, but Marvel wasn't quite ready for such things.
Like the rest of the original five issues that adapt the film, the art here is courtesy of the late, inimitable George Pérez, who said that he tried to reflect the film's aesthetic in his style. Sometimes that works better than others, although the paper quality -- and overall print quality -- of late-70s Marvels doesn't provide many favors. Logan's Run, the film, was briefly viewed as near the pinnacle of special effects, until Star Wars came out and instantly made it look as dated as something out of the late 1950s. So perhaps it's only fitting that this book suffers in places from blurred lines and blotchy color that would have been unthinkable in a book published not all that many years later.
Gerry Conway was the writer for this issue. There's a sort of letter from him to the readers in here, where he talks about his love for Nolan's work and how he's pleased and honored to be able to write for the adaptation. Nevertheless, this would be the only issue of the run he would work on.
The back cover offers an advertisement for Ideal's Evel Knieval Stunt Cycle toy line. These were some of the most iconic toys of the 1970s and one of the most successful toy lines in history. Ideal claims to have sold over $125 million of these toys, produced between 1972 and 1977. The basic idea behind these toys was that the vehicles contained a little gyro motor. You set the vehicle -- the Stunt Bike, for example -- in the plastic Energizer and powered up the gyro with the Energizer's hand crack, and the bike would zoom off to face whatever death-defying stunts awaited it (or fall over unceremoniously, but that's how things go in toy land). Ideal's real stroke of genius was that all the toys in the line were compatible with the same Energizers.
They were genuinely exciting toys, and better quality sculpts than you'd expect from 1970s plastic (although Ideal did cheapen production quality with each generation of retooling, naturally). This advertisement, on the other hand, is really boring, and makes them look like they're just static miniatures. It was a very strange design decision on the part of Ideal. I wonder if they reconsidered it later...
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