NFL Super Pro vs — Quick Kick?!
Hey, it’s the Big Game today here in the US–not that I really care, since my hometown team, in typical fashion, whizzed it down their leg in their first playoff game. Anyway, I came across the following comic when perusing auctions a while back and was amazed to see a familiar name in the issue of NFL Super Pro. And I freely admit that I bought the comic back when. I also bought Night Cat and Solar Man. I was a Marvel Zombie to the Nth Man degree.
Quick Kick in this series was a former player who holds a man-sized grudge with the Super Pro. Quick Kick has a TM next to his name on the cover, and I wonder if it’s a CYA, considering the Joe connection. The tone of the comic is sometimes a bit dark for its time, in a pretty stark contrast to the ridiculous concept. I love finding tangential links to GI Joe that let me go off-topic. It keeps me sane.
Man, where do you find this stuff?
This is great. I usually was at least aware of all the Marvel titles at the time, but this one eluded me. Which is odd as I was a football fan back then.
I remember seeing the Marvel sports comics (including WCW) all the time at my local grocery store where I’d buy my comics, but I wasn’t interested. At the time, the only non-Super Hero comic I was reading regularly was G.I. Joe.
That is awesome! Though Quick Kick v. the NFL Ninja sounds like a Sunbow cartoon episode.
The person who wrote SuperPro also wrote X-Force & New Warriors IIRC. He said he only did it because free NFL tickets were part of the deal. The series lasted a year and went down the memory hole.
Someone had to take the mantle after the death of MacArthur Ito.