No longer as famend as Astro Boy or as kooky as Hotfoot Racer, Marine Boy used to be a ’60s Jap icy enthralling film (from Japan Tele-Cartoons aka TV Movies) dubbed by the Peter Fernandez/Corinne Orr/Jack Grimes crew. Moreover posthaste glimpses on resort TVs whereas on vacation in varied markets, I never got to acknowledge this reveal as a kid. At repeat languishing in the vaults of Time Warner Turner Whoever, this reveal indubitably ought to safe a lawful DVD free up (and has, says 2013). Anyway, I raise it up to reveal you this clipping that D. Thompson found out in a 1966 reveal of a TV broadcasters magazine:
What’s attention-grabbing about this article is how Frish’s Monumental Boy Ingesting areas purchased Marine Boy in Ohio, Kentucky, and Florida markets. Used to be this a promotional tie-in? Did the Monumental Boy and Marine Boy ever meet in the pages of those free promo comics? Used to be there a “Marine Boy Surf And Turf” special on the menu? The suggestions boggles.
That’s a somewhat icy Marine Boy illustration up there with the article, pity it is now now not at all times indubitably in color. Help on a minute…
And on the motivate…