Bugle (newspaper) journalism students at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The tongue-in-cheek name was inspired by that of the "Daily Bugle", the fictional newspaper published by Spider-Man-hater J. Jonah Jameson. Because of Kitchen's interest in underground comics, the "Bugle" featured a comics page with the works of both local artists like Kitchen, Jim Mitchell, Don Glassford, Bruce Walthers, and Wendel Pugh, and work by nationally known artists like Robert Crumb. For a time Kitchen syndicated these strips to about fifty college and alternative papers around the country. On February 22, 1975, the "Bugle's" office on Bremen Street on the East Side was firebombed.
Superhero the debut of sci-fi/horror series Ultra Q created by Eiji Tsuburaya this would eventually lead on to the sequel Ultraman, spawning a successful franchise focused upon the Giant Hero subgenre where the Superheroes would be as big as giant monsters (Kaiju) that they fought. In 1971, "Kamen Rider" launched the "Henshin Boom" on Japanese television in the early 1970s, greatly impacting the tokusatsu superhero genre in Japan. In 1972, the "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman" anime debuted, which built upon the superhero team idea of the live-action "Phantom Agents" as well as introducing different colors for team members and special vehicles