Superheroes go Waterskiing

I remember my neighbour Michael in 1979 telling me he had seen the Superfriends waterski when he was in Florida. I honestly never believed him, it sounded like one of those BS playground rumours like "The Daggit on Battle Star Galactica is a monkey" (which I found out later to be true) I guess I owe Michael an apology, come and get it.

Sea World ran this very weird and cool cross promotion with DC that had actors dressed as the World's Greatest Superheroes do a waterski show. It's actually kind of cool looking and I'm jealous I never got to see it as a kid.

I found this ad in one of my son's comics.

Then DC comics President Sol Harrison flanked by DC characters (Dig the Joker!). Harrison was big on marketing the comics to the children, he even had a "Comic Mobile" that drove around to parks and schoolyards at one point. His son Marty was the art director at Mego Toys, one of the reasons I started this site.

This Batman goes waterskiing, something Adam West never did.

I love the character breadth on this one, nowadays you'd never see characters such as Black Canary or Mera. Michael once told me he saw Samurai from the Superfriends as well but I dunno, sounds like a lie....

New to this page are these awesome shots from Betsy who apparently attended this show in January of 1976. I can't tell you how much I love these!

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