Monday, January 2, 2017

DOCTOR STRANGE in BlackLite!

...produced not one...
...but two...
...classic blacklite posters in the early 1970s!
Third Eye Studios produced, using Marvel artwork, a line of fluorescent-ink posters, greeting cards, and puzzles that glow under ultra-violet ("black") light...
 
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...all of which are now hard-to-find and expensive!
Ironically, the hardest to find and most collectible posters are the montage shown above and this one with new art by John Romita Sr...
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...which were not for sale, just display!
There were three Doctor Strange posters, the two Colan/Palmer ones and a Dan Adkins piece.
Note: while all the puzzles repeated art from the posters, some of the greeting cards used art not seen on the posters, so while there are repeats, there are also unique cards that make the set worth collecting!
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Sunday, January 1, 2017

Holiday Reading Room DOCTOR STRANGE "Eternity, Eternity" Conclusion

...it was the end of 1968, New Year's Eve, to be exact.
After seeing a vision of the etherial Eternity changing into his old enemy, Nightmare, Dr Strange takes his alien love, Clea, to Times Square to experience New Year's Eve: New York City Style...where a pterodactyl crashes into the clock as it strikes midnight!
Yep, True Believer, it's another of Marvel's patented "continued stories"!
But our intent here is to present only the New Year's Eve part of the tale, since both parts have been reprinted recently.
So we're going to show you how Marvel itself got out of re-running the entire two-parter when it ran this tale from Doctor Strange #180 (1969) in Marvel Treasury Edition #8: Giant SuperHero Holiday Grab-Bag (1975)!
The editors took the Gene Colan penciled and inked presentation piece showing the finalized design for Doc's "superhero-style" costume that appeared as a pin-up in Doctor Strange #180...
...took out the final panel of the story and used the Doc figure with a new word balloon!

Sneaky, huh?
Written by Roy Thomas, penciled by Gene Colan, and inked by Tom Palmer, this tale is one of the koolest of the era's Dr Strange stories with pop culture references galore and accurate NYC locales!
The cover, btw is a combination of a Steve Ditko Eternity figure, a new Doctor Strange by Colan and Palmer and a New York City photo background (Marvel did several photo background covers during this period)
Tomorrow:
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Holiday Reading Room DOCTOR STRANGE "Eternity, Eternity" Part 1

The year was 1968, going into 1969...
...and the wildest New Year's Eve story in comics history is about to begin!
Yeah.
It's a heckuva point to break off our tale until tomorrow, but you'll need an incentive to get out of bed on New Year's Day!
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "Fredreick Fenton's Future!"

Our final time travel tale of the year is about a greedy, fat, rich guy...
...who thinks of nobody but himself.
No, it's not Donald Trump...
I always wondered what would happen if a time machine ran out of power in a location that had no resources to refuel/recharge it.
Writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko supply the answer in this never-reprinted story from Marvel's Journey into Mystery #96 (1963)
Be here tomorrow as I re-present my favorite New Year's Eve story from the Silver Age of Comics!
It's a tale so graphically-awesome that two splash pages from it became highly-sought-after blacklite posters!
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "Filbert's Frightful Future!"

After Mighty Thor began his run in Journey into Mystery as of #83......
...and before Norse mythology-related backup series like Tales of Asgard began, the one-shot shorts like this never-reprinted tale continued to fill the back of the book until the inventory was used up!
The second of two never-reprinted stories from Marvel's Journey into Mystery #85 (1962), it's the more imaginative and thoughtful tale.
The other one, "Off Limits" is HERE.
Don Heck penciled and inked it.
Stan Lee plotted it, but experts are not sure if he scripted it.
Lee usually signed the later shorts he scripted, but only Heck's signature is here.
Just about everything Lee didn't script at this point was handled by his brother Larry Lieber.
(Stan's birth name is Stanley Leiber. He used "Stan Lee" on his comics work because he wanted his real name on the Great American Novel he planned to write.
When he finally realized he would be forever known for his comics and not any prose novel he might write, he legally changed his name to "Stan Lee".)
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