American Update: Born To Run! Complete 7-issue Logan’s Run Set, with early Thanos Vs. Drax Story
*Marvel: In 1977, Marvel produced one of their myriad film adaptations, this one taken from the Michael York-starring movie based, in turn, upon the science-fiction ageist dystopia novel by Nolan & Johnson, which had acquired a cult status since its publication in 1967. The adaptation, scripted by Gerry Conway (later David Kraft) and illustrated by then-noob George Perez, was faithful to the movie, and well done. Things took a bit of a dip creatively with issue #6, when, going ‘beyond the movie’, the chores were handed to a clearly unenthusiastic John Warner and Tom Sutton, but a back-up in #6 – a short story, unconnected to Logan’s Run, featuring a clash between Thanos and Drax the Destroyer – has pushed up the price of that issue, for reasons obvious to anyone who’s gone to the movies in the last half-decade. We have the set of seven issues, averaging NM, all cents copies, available for £50; pictured is issue #6 NM.