Marty Sullivan, who delighted Northeast Ohio television viewers for decades as WUAB’s "Superhost," died Friday at age 87 in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., a family member has confirmed.

Sullivan, who appeared at Akron Comicon in November, ruled Saturdays with his Channel 43 Saturday shows "Supe’s On" and "Mad Theatre." His contemporaries included Bob Wells and Chuck Schodowski, the stars of "The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show" on Friday nights on WJW-TV 8, and Ron Swede, who hosted horror movies on Saturday nights on WKBF (Channel 61) as The Ghoul, a tribute to Ernie Anderson’s Ghoulardi character from Channel 8 in the 1960s.

"You watched Superhost and then you watched either a Godzilla movie or ‘The Blob’ or something like that," Akron Comicon co-organizer Jason Miller told the Beacon Journal last year. "For people 40 to about 60, every Saturday morning, Superhost was your guy."

The backdrop to Sullivan’s shows often featured children’s crayon drawings of Superhost or various monster movie creatures or stars such as The Three Stooges from the clips that he presented.

As Superhost, Sullivan wore a red nose, blue uniform, red cape, red shorts and giant sneakers. The initials "SH" were emblazoned in a diamond on his chest.

Superhost's recurring sketches included "The Moronic Woman" (a spoof of "The Bionic Woman") and "Battleship Ethnica."

As Sullivan, he also read news breaks on the station — minus the red nose.

He started at WUAB when the station launched in the fall of 1968, and retired his on-air Superhost persona at the start of 1990. In 1993, he retired from the station at age 61.

He was inducted into the Akron/Summit County Radio-Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1991 after eligibility was expanded to include nominees from the wider Northeast Ohio market.