Heh, thinking of it some more, I kinda feel sad I grew up in a town that was a smaller market, and didn't have any 'true' independent stations on the UHF dial dedicated to showing stuff like Ultraman, Marine Boy or maybe Prince Planet in those days like in larger markets. That's a pretty cool Marine Boy illustration up there with the article, pity it isn't in color.
Was this a promotional tie-in? Did the Big Boy and Marine Boy ever meet in the pages of those free promo comics? Was there a "Marine Boy Surf And Turf" special on the menu? The mind boggles. What's interesting about this article is how Frish's Big Boy Restaurants purchased Marine Boy in Ohio, Kentucky, and Florida markets. Thompson found in a 1966 issue of a TV broadcasters magazine: Anyway, I bring it up to show you this clipping that D. Currently languishing in the vaults of Time Warner Turner Whoever, this show really ought to get a proper DVD release ( and has, says 2013). Apart from quick glimpses on hotel TVs while on vacation in other markets, I never got to see this show as a kid. Not as famous as Astro Boy or as kooky as Speed Racer, Marine Boy was a '60s Japanese cartoon (from Japan Tele-Cartoons aka TV Films) dubbed by the Peter Fernandez/Corinne Orr/Jack Grimes team.
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