The Marvel Lucky Bag - July 1983.

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Plenty of famous films hit our eyes when we entered our local cinema in July 1983. Amongst other treats, we were blessed with such gems as Staying Alive, Zelig, Jaws 3-D, Krull and National Lampoon's Vacation.

I must confess the only one of those I've seen is Krull. Therefore I can pass no judgement upon which is best but, somehow, I have the suspicion it's probably not Krull.

Skeevo, Syzygy and Oedi take out advertising with the Commune but it's exciting times ahead because, as the Instrumentality tries to bushwhack them, they meet and battle Tuetun.

Frankly, I found all that out from the internet. I don't have a clue what any of it means. It's just a string of near-random words, to me.

And I know even less about what's going on in this one.

I do know that, in some way, it involves The Amulet of Ka.

And, obviously, it involves Kull.

In this thrilling issue, we get a Man-Thing tale called Rock 'n' Soul!

But we're doubly blessed because we also get an adventure called Mowgli's Brothers, adapted, as you might suspect, from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Hang onto your lily pads, tigers, because, this issue, Spider-Man teams up with Frog-Man!

I'm assuming he's not the Frog-Man who used to fight Daredevil?

Anyway, the White Rabbit's also involved.

Not that I have a clue who she is either.

I'm going to assume she's the villain of the piece.

Marvel Two-in-One may have died but you can't keep a bright orange rock monster down.

And so it is that the Thing gets his very own book in which he returns to Yancy Street to reminisce over his early years, including the death of his brother and the formation of the Fantastic Four.

To be honest, sitting around reminiscing doesn't sound like the most thrilling way to start a new series.

Then again, it's by John Byrne. So, I'm, sure he knows what he's doing.

Today's Marvel Universe is brought to you by the letter, "M."

And that means we get a whole string of one-page profiles of various super-doers whose names begin with that very character.

Bouncing Bill Sienkiewicz gives us a cover that I suspect is likely to be far more intriguing than the story within.

Then again, I know nothing of the story within, other than that it's called Fugitive and is brought to us by the team of Frank Springer and Vince Colletta.

It would appear that, In order to save Koth's life, Ogeode must discover more about the physiology of the Crystal warriors.

To do this, he sends his daughter into the Prism-Crystal, so that she, herself, can undergo the transformation.

We're on issue #3 now and I still have no idea what this comic's about.

I do suspect CB radio's involved.

It would seem we get coverage of Return of the Jedi - and we get Bob Layton being interviewed!

Granted, I only know that because it says so on the front cover.

We also get Rock and Rule but I don't have a clue what that means.

We also get Other Stuff.

That is good. It's always good to get other stuff.