What If American Sentai Existed In The 70's?

So I've been reading up on the origins of the Spiderman Toku and Marvel's collab with Toei on Battle Fever J

Apparently durring the Battle Fever J collab, Stan Lee tried to market Sentai here, thinking that it would do well

Obviously his efforts were in vain seeing as how we didn't get sentai for two more decades (Excluding the Night Flight Dynaman)

So I'd like to impose a question, if the American markets bought into sentai back in the 70's, do you think it would have done well or failed?

Back then they would have just given it a stupid dub like the 70's Godzilla films...
Maybe it was for the best it didn't take till 1993.

Well all I do know is that Battle Fever J was brought over to Hawaii with English subtitles courtesy of JN Productions.

Honestly it would have never happened. The thing about Stan Lee is that he will try to sell anything and if it fails he just moves on. Everyone remembers the Fantastic Four as Marvel's first new superheroes but everyone forgets Doctor Droom. Just because he saw something and thought he could make a buck on it doesn't mean he had any actually faith in the product. We still love him though.

Added to that live-action superhero programs were a gamble in part since to afford the special effects budgets needed they had to go after more mainstream audiences. Since at the time laws placed limits on how toylines could be marketed towards children, the traditional Japanese route of offsetting costs with toy sales wouldn't work in America.

What's American Sentai? Do you mean English Subbed Sentai like America got in the 70's? Or maybe you mean Power Rangers?

Blue Saint said:

Doctor Droom.

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Was he a failed predecessor to Doctor Doom?

It probably would have ended up like the original US release of Ultraman: Dubbed and edited to meet broadcast standards of the time.

K-onsucksass said:

Was he a failed predecessor to Doctor Doom?

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He is known to modern audiences as Doctor Druid, he is an interesting piece of comic history alongside the likes of Patsy Walker.

I imagine we'd have to look to our superheroes to know what it would be like...

Ugh. I'm suddenly remembering "Captain America" from the 70's. Let's not dwell on those thoughts.

I too think that it would be a dubbed version. But still, it might not last long in the end. Even if it was a good attempt.