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Marvel Super Squad Stickers Count

November 24th, 2011 Posted at Super Heroes

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With the success of the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises, it seems that each second Marvel Comics superhero has a film in planning stages. However, Marvel’s other superhero teams have a slight hurdle: they percentage their names with another popular Hollywood subject: fondly-remembered TV shows. Let’s tell them apart…

THE AVENGERS

On television: Quirky series from the sixties, in which the terribly British John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and respective offsiders, including Cathy Gale (Honore Blackman) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), battled respective sci-fi goofballs. Best villains: the Cybernauts, a bunch of homicidal robots.

In the comics: Superhero group, published since the sixties, most often times led by the proudly American Captain America. Every Marvel superhero save the X-Men seems to have been an Avenger at a great deal of time. Best villain: Ultron, a homicidal robot.

Prospects: The comic book was spun off into a frequent animated TV series, but since the astounding 1998 movie (based on the TV show), the name “Avengers” is in all likelihood box-office poison.

THE DEFENDERS

On television: Riveting 1960s courtroom drama, featuring a father-son defence team.

In the comics: Riveting 1970s and 1980s superhero comic, featuring a bunch of guys who would hang out together, fighting primarily supernatural bad guys.

Prospects: Some of the comic-book Defenders (including the Hulk and, coming soon, the Sub-Mariner and the Silver Surfer) are already movie heroes. If they are successful, a team-up is the logical next step.

THE INVADERS

On television: Maximum paranoia, ’60s style. David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) had to run away from aliens who wanted to take over the world, dissembled as humans, while attempting to warn a disbelieving Earth population.

In the comics: Marvel’s greatest heroes of World War II – namely Captain America, the Sub-Mariner and the introductory Human Torch. While they were all frequent back in the 1940s, they only worked together in a nostalgic series, introductory published in the seventies.

Prospects: How in regards to a crossover? Aliens invade Earth and battle superheroes for the duration of World War II? Hey, it could work!

THE CHAMPIONS

On television: Silly (but fun) British superhero series of the sixties.

In the comics: Los Angeles-based superhero series of the seventies. One of the firstborn teams to be led by a woman (the Black Widow, a defected Russian spy), along with Ghost Rider, Iceman and others.

Prospects: Neither of them lasted long. If a successful TV series (like The Avengers) or comic book (like Captain America) may bomb at the movies, who’d want to film one of these also-rans?

ALIAS

On television: The adventures of Sydney Bristow, high-school student cum superspy. First shown in 2001; cancelled 2006.

In the comics: The adventures of Jessica Jones, superhero cum detective. First published in 2000; she retired in 2005.

Prospects: Either would make a good starring role for Jennifer Garner. Time to get started!