Monday, June 03, 2019

Denny Miller as Superman and Captain Marvel (!!??)

Actor Denny Miller was often typecast as dumb, musclebound jocks, but he played a number of iconic characters in his long career including Tarzan (and Tongo, his GILLIGAN'S ISLAND doppelgänger) and, in a sries of short US Air Force commercials, Superman! 

Perhaps most intriguing though is the mention below, in a plug for a sadly long-lost TV special on comic books, that Denny was set to play Captain Marvel! Presumably that deal was quashed because of the DC/Fawcett arrangement and possibly even because of the Marvel/Myron Fass dispute over the "Captain Marvel" name two years later.


  1. I know this was posted some time ago, but what year was the newspaper clipping, because I know Brenda Starr had pilots aired in 1976 and 1979 respectively, Green Hornet in 1966, it would be interesting to see the yea of that newspaper clipping, love reading your articles, it's always interesting.

    1. Yes, would be great to know year!