Monday, May 7, 2012

Reading Room: SPEED CARTER: SPACEMAN "Robots' Revenge"

The 1950s, when heroic astronauts fought for Truth, Justice, and the American Way...
 ..even in their pajamas, as seen in the final story from Speed Carter: SpaceMan #1 (1953)!
The Saturnian wore the Martian ambassador's skin?
Now that's gonna screw up diplomatic relations!
Written by Hank Chapman, illustrated by Joe Maneely!
Speed Carter and the Space Sentinels will return in the (dare I say?) near future!

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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Design of the Week--Sheldon & Leonard's Hero...CAPTAIN FUTURE!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...
Your eyes do not deceive you!
It's the 1940s magazine artwork the kool poster adorning Sheldon and Leonard's apartment (in the tv series Big Bang Theory) is based on!
It was the premiere issue of a cult-favorite pulp magazine called Captain Future that ran thru the 1940s, was reprinted in paperback in the 1960s, became a fan-fave anime series in the 1980s, and has recently been revived in hardcover!
It's already part of our Captain Future collection featuring the many faces of the Captain Future character(s) in pulps and comics, but we felt it was time to spotlight this particular piece due to it's historical significance and the fan interest we've seen on the Net.Plus, it's now on a number of items not part of our main collection, and after next Sunday, they'll no longer be available!
So act now to get the Man of Tomorrow, created in the past, before he disappears next week! (Wha?)

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Free Comic Book Day 2012

VISIT YOUR LOCAL COMIC SHOP!
LOTSA FREEBIES!
MANY SHOPS HAVE SPECIAL EVENTS (COMIX CREATOR AUTOGRAPH SIGNINGS, CHARACTER APPEARANCES, CONTESTS)!
DID WE MENTION LOTS OF FREEBIES?

Friday, May 4, 2012

The Avengers are HERE!

Variant Mondo poster by Tyler Stout
So why are you sitting around reading this blog?
Get out there and see it!
I've seen it, and it's KOOL!
NOTE: Stay for the whole end-credits sequence!
There's two tag-scenes, one at the very end of the credits!
Mondo poster by Tyler Stout
And don't forget Free Comic Book Day tomorrow...

Thursday, May 3, 2012

YouTube Wednesday Reux: IRON MAN "Enter Hawkeye" (& Black Widow)

While everyone's familiar with Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, and Captain America, most don't know...
Hawkeye and the Black Widow!
Hawkeye the Marksman first appeared as a misunderstood hero in Iron Man's series in Tales of Suspense #57, where he met the already-ongoing villainess (yes, villainess) Black Widow!
That story and it's follow-ups in Tales of Suspense #60 & 61...
...were the basis for the cartoon from the Marvel SuperHeroes Show (1966) below!

The previous episode in the Iron Man series had introduced the Black Widow in a tale adapted from Tales of Suspense #46 (the first Crimson Dynamo story)...
  ...and Tales of Suspense #52 (the sequel which featured the Black Widow's first appearance)!
The episode features one of the characters actually dying on screen (A rarity in 60s cartoons)!

Enjoy!