RAIDERS

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-sixth week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for Part 1 of this week’s legends. COMIC LEGEND: Marvel at first refused to adapt Raiders of the Lost Ark STATUS: True As the 1970s came to a close, Marvel was in the midst of a weird situation when it came to licensing popular movies. Since the deals all included at least the option of doing a few issues, Marvel would turn the books into ongoing series and then, when the sales started dropping, cancel the book after the initial licensing agreement finished. The notable exception, of course, was some book about a farm boy and a bunch of weird robots… So as the 1980s began, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter wanted to be more careful about doing movie adaptations, but at the same time, the higher-ups at Marvel thought it was a great idea, so they kept pushing him to do more and more. So he would do two t