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Archive for the 'Marvel' Tag
Promotional Card Sheets (2)
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
These promotional card sheets were for sets that Marvel published themselves in 1994, about the Marvel universe in general, and Spider-Man in particular. I particularly like the way the cards on the second sheet match like a jig-saw puzzle.
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Marvel Comics is coming !
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
This ad for Marvel Mystery Comics was drawn by Carl Burgos, and ran in Marvel Stories in may 1040.
(thanks, Golden Age Comic Book Stories)
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40 Part 27 - Public Domain X-Men
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
In 1997 Marvel Comics was bankrupt, which prompted Highwater Books to release a benefit issue of their antology Goober Skeber, with alternative and small press cartoonists doing strips featuring Marvel heroes. A sort of Bizarro Comics avant la lettre. Even Wired wrote about it at the time.
Seth did the cover, which only makes you dream how an actual X-men comic by him would have looked…
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Comics are just for kids — or are they ?
Friday, March 30th, 2007
An article from National Geographic Magazine, and an house ad from Marvel Comics, both from the sixties, but from very different worlds…
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Civil War In A Nutshell
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
He did it before with Infinite crisis, and once again Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog saves you a wad of cash, by summing up Marvel’s Civil War “event” in 30 seconds. Neat !
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