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Ultraman...   The Legend Continues
This is from my ultraman comic book #1 of 3.  
It was printed in July 1993 and I haven’t added anything to it and it is 
basically the exact same as it is in the comic book.
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     He first appeared on Japanese television on July 17, 1966.  The
most gigantic of superheroes.  300 feet high dressed in a gleaming
red and silver costume with a goggled helmet that suggested the 
head piece of Buck Rogers fashioned into a face mask.
     UROTORAMAN was what the Japanese called him, and he 
was the creation of Eiji tsuburaya, the genius of movie special 
effects who had also created Godzilla.
     UROTORAMAN was an immediate hit.  It was Japan’s first 
color TV show for children, and during its first season on Tokyo 
Broadcasting, the series enjoyed an outstanding peak rating of 
42.8.  Running 39 thirty minute episodes, it concerned a 
policeman from the M78 Nebula who, while taking the monster 
"Bemura" to the Space Graveyard, crashes into a spaceship from 
Earth.  The pilot of the earth ship is a man named Hayata, a 
member of the Science Patrol, who is killed in the crash.
     The policeman is grieved by Hayata’s death and the part he 
has played in it.  To make up for it, he combines his essence with 
that of the dead pilot, to make him live again.  And as part of  his 
life for death tradeoff, Hayata  must serve as the protector of the 
Planet Earth...  When needed to become a strange, mystical clone 
of the M78 policeman himself...a superhero who has only three 
minutes to stay alive in this gigantic state before returning again to 
his human form...he is...UROTORAMAN.
     Thus was born the legend that we in America were soon to 
know in the 1970’s as...Ultraman!
     In Japan, and here in the United States, that was just the 
begining.  The original series was soon followed by Ultra 7, a 
mixture of Ultraman and an earlier sci-fi show by Tsuburaya  
called Ultra Q.  With that success there came THE RETURN OF 
ULTRAMAN, a series about the superhero in his original style 
adventures.  And this was followed by UlTRAMAN ACE starring 
four different Ultra beings.  There was Ultraman; Zophy.  The 
superhero’s boss in an earlier show; "New" Ultraman; and 
Ultraman Ace.  Ultraman Ace was perhaps the most fascinating.  
He was really two people.  Seiji Hobuto  and Yuko Minami by 
pressing together their "Ultra Rings" could combine their beings 
and become Ultra Ace(an interesting sidelight to this is that 
Hobuto means "North" and Minami means "South.")
     This strange phenomenon of Ultra Ace pehaps the best 
exemplifies the power of this series.  The essence of Ultra Ace-and 
Ultraman.  Of course-is quite mystical.  The ultraman series seem 
to exist and have meaning on a higher plane of life.
     There is more than what appears on the screen or on the 
printed page. Beyond the monsters.  Beyond this Gigantic 
mystereous force. Beyond the incredible ways Ultraman can 
transmit his strength. Something else is being said.  Perhaps it is 
that all of us all together. All of us in combining our different 
powers are... Ultraman! 
	But returning to the history of the great superhero. Ultraman 
Taro then followed in 1973 on Japanese television.  This less 
serious series told a young Taro going through the rights of  
"Ultrahood." In 1979, an animated Ultraman series was shown, 
then ULTRAMAN 80, and finally(Till now!)the present series 
being shown on these shores.  Ultraman Towards the Future!  
Counting the present 39 episodes, there have been 395 different 
episodes of ULTRAMAN!
     And still counting! Because a brand new series will begin 
shooting in Los Angeles in the summer of 1993!
     In July of this year,  It will be 27 years since the first show 
aired.  Twenty-Seven years since this giant red and silver 
costumed being leaped from outerspace to save our world.
	Twenty-Seven years since we knew of this 300 foot tall 
superhero who understands the importance of life.  Who 
recognizes that the most hideous and humungous of monsters may 
not always have evil intentions.  And who, whenever a monster 
must be destroyed, carries the creature himself to the monster 
cemetary in outerspace.   We believe this is just our begining!!
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