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Plus, of course, it was free which made it more likely that punters would grab a copy at the counter no matter where their buying loyalties lay.īy the mid 1990s, the unprecedented competition in the market place meant that everyone who could pumped a lot of cash into Marketing. Someone obviously noticed and it was upgraded to a monthly glossy colour freebie which showcased upcoming projects in far more luxurious surroundings. And - best of all - the readership were willing to pay.ĭC resisted going down the same route and concentrated their in-store marketing into a one-sheet freebie that compensated for s lack of colour printing by using colour paper. All geared to getting the buyer to buy more. That was Marvel's own in-house fanzine, stuffed to the staples with suspiciously good news stories about upcoming projects and creative teams. Marvel hit on the solution in the early 1980s: MARVEL AGE MAGAZINE. Fanzines had traditionally provided thet route but their low quality production values - and the whims of their Fan Boy editors - made them unreliable for reaching the mass market. And it continued to improve across seasons 1-4 before loosing it in the fifth and final year.įrom May/ June 1995: the first issue of THE MIGHTY I MAGAZINE.īefore Online became ubiquitous, publishers needed a way to reach out to their would-be audience.
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Many of those problems were fixed when the series itself launched. I could see the potential byt the cast seemed a little - ahem - underwhelming in their abilities and some if the creative decisions seemed a little ill-judged (like the Command Centre that seemed to be lit like a night club). I picked this up from the Oxford Circus branch of HMV (they occasionally carried tapes intended for the rental market) and was initially not that impressed.
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That's because there was a gap between PTEN (Prime Time Entertainment Network - the fancy name for the package of first-run syndicated teleflicks and series Warner Brothers sold to local stations) making and airing the movie and the series proper being given the green light. This is the sleeve for the original rental release of the feature-length pilot episode (aka The Gathering) which was released before the series arrived.
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It was carried by the ITV regions during the early days of overnight TV and another of the unusually fine series created by New World Television.įrom 1993: the first UK VHS release for BABYLON FIVE. The episode with Patrick (The Avengers) Macnee is particularly fine. Warren Murphy also created the rather good but little remembered US TV series MURPHY'S LAW, starring George Segal, which attempted to straddle drama and comedy with varying degrees of success over its short run. Then they changed track and tried a four-issue comic book mini-series and one further one-shot. They percevered with a colour special which collected some of the matqerial, first published in black & white, from the first four magazines. Marvel published nine issues of the magazine (no British editions) before pulling the plug. The character had (almost) gone mainstream that decade thanks to the movie (which no one watched) and spin-off TV pilot (which didn't sell) but didn't quite make it. This was a spin-off from Warren Murphy's 1971 pulp paperback creation Remo Williams. This is the UK edition, published as a Channel Four book, by Boxtree.įrom November 1989: THE DESTROYER MAGAZINE issue 1, part of Marvel's late decade push back into black & white mag publishing. Things did - without doubt - get better later. The B5 production office were also apparently ill-prepared to be dealing with licensed products and there wasn't a system or staff in place to offer advice or give feedback on the submitted manuscripts. So the books had to be written early in the first season production cycle with only the pilot movie (fairly atypical of the series that followed), early scripts for the weekly series and completed episodes as they rolled off the production conveyor belt. just in case there was no Year Two and no discernable TV afterlfe.
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Apparently this was because Dell were something of a reluctant licencee and wanted the first three paperbacks completed and released during the show's first season. What we got was a book which seemed to have only the most tenuous grasp of the show's appeal, characters and overall format.
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Mostly because we'd been reassured that merchandise associated with the show would be of a higher standard and spin-off fiction would be better integrated into the much discussed story arc. This was pretty disappointing when it was released. From 1994: the first of the Dell BABYLON FIVE paperbacks.