The Marvel Lucky Bag - August 1976.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Cinema!What a magnificent art form it is!And just how magnificent was it in August 1976?It was this magnificent!The month saw the release of such gems as Obsession, The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West, The Return of a Man Called Horse, The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, The Gumball Rally, Gator and The Shootist.Come to think of it, I don't recall ever having seen even one of those films.I shall, therefore, assume the best of them to be The Shootist, simply because it has a serious title and, as we all know, serious films must be better than other films or they wouldn't be allowed to make them.But what's this?An adaptation of Anna Sewell's classic novel?By Marvel Comics?I'd assumed Black Beauty was one of these things - like Follyfoot - that was only famous in Britain. How little I knew.I also know little of the plot of the original novel. Regardless, Naunerle Farr and Rudy Nebres…