Sunday, August 2, 2020

The First Spidey Movie



SPIDER-MAN-1969-In 1957 teenager Don Glut began making amateur movies featuring the Frankenstein monster, Dracula, dinosaurs and werewolves. Because Forrest J Ackerman mentioned him many times in Famous Monsters Of Filmland, Glut became well known for his home movies even once getting Glen Strange to reprise the monster in one of his films. Eventually (and probably illegally) Glut made some featuring Superman, The Spirit and in his very last, The Amazing Spider-Man. The effects are laughable (much of his wall crawling and web swinging are a doll) but still kind of innovative and very entertaining. 

From a newspaper headline we learn "Disfigured Scientist Becomes Dr. Lightening". He wears a metallic head piece to hide his face and has his henchman kidnap his own daughter. In Bronson Canyon he and Spider-Man have a showdown. Later Spider-Man webs up his car and the doctor kills himself. Glut later became a writer and director.

You can read more about him here: https://donaldfglut.com/

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