Clean-living prizefighter makes good. Monogram made 12 movies based on Ham Fisher’s comic character, Joe Palooka. Lots of movies and shorts in the 1940s and 1950s knocked out stories centered around the boxing ring. We tend to label more contemporary comic book inspired movies as franchise, merchandise, and sequel-itis prone properties, but merchandising and repeated entries for a property started decades ago, even before Star Wars. If it’s hot its cloned more than a gaggle of storm troopers, when the force of an insatiable audience kicks in.
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