COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Logan's Run 2 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0137764011
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Owner:
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Qalyar
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
David Kraft took over writing here, and would remain in that role for the remainder of the film adaptation issues.
There's not a lot to say about these issues, which follow the screenplay pretty successfully. That works better in some places than in others. After all, Logan's Run -- the film -- has its share of padding, and the faithful adaptation doesn't really do anything to disguise that. In the coming years, Marvel would largely settle on adapting feature films into three-volume mini-series rather than five, and I think that worked out for the best all around. But it does mean we get more George Pérez artwork this way, I suppose.
On the back cover, we're revisiting those Evel Knievel toys from Ideal from last issue, but with an entirely new approach to advertising them. It seems that Ideal did reconsider taking such a boring, anodyne approach to their toys. It also serves to highlight the Super Jet Cycle, 1976's addition to the toy line. The ad shows the large red pods mounted to the back of that motorcycle model; these contained a flint striker and a spinning wheel powered by the gyro. Through the magic of this technology, when the Super Jet Cycle launched out of the Energizer, it left trails of sparks in its wake! Unlike a lot of sparking toys (Transformers, I'm looking at you here), it was even possible to replace the flints on these once they wore down.
Eventually, Evel Knievel-mania died down, and Ideal wrapped things up for this toy line in 1977, although boxes were likely available in stores for some time afterward. These days, mint-in-box or otherwise high grade examples of the line do pretty well in the collectible toy circuit.
Old case.
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