I've made comment over the years that "Superman: The Movie" was my Star Wars. What I mean is, for most of my generation, "Star Wars" was the defining movie. I saw "Star Wars" and enjoyed it, but it didn't have the cultural impact on me as it did other kids my age (commence stoning now). I only saw the movie once. I didn't collect the toys. I didn't collect the cards. I didn't have the record album. I was a comic book geek.
I was mainly a fan of Marvel Comics. For those of you unfamiliar, Marvel is Spider-man, The Avengers, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, X-Men, The Hulk, Captain America, etc. All of the heroes that are popular movies now. No, not Aquaman. That's DC which along with our underwater friend had Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, the Flash, etc. In the 70's, the only place you could find your heroes off the page was on TV. And when it came to TV, DC seemed to win hands down.
There was "The Superfriends" on Saturday mornings.
