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Post by Shiryu on Apr 28, 2006 8:37:09 GMT -5
These are some really awesome pieces of art Thanks for sharing them, they look great !
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Post by Yellowjacket on Apr 28, 2006 8:37:29 GMT -5
The first one is a little bit too patriotic for me, but than, I´m not an American. ;D
Though, the second one looks great, that one is really classic!
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Post by dlw66 on Apr 28, 2006 8:49:06 GMT -5
I have scanned four other images from these two calendars, as well as a Hulk calendar and a Dr. Strange calendar. All involve the Avengers, so I'll have them up for you to see by Monday! Glad you've enjoyed them
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Post by dlw66 on May 8, 2006 8:11:57 GMT -5
I apologize for the delay in getting those other pictures posted. I have tried several times, and the imageshack screen shows a full green bar at the bottom, indicating to me that the files have uploaded, but I never get the URL for the link so I can post them. It just sits there. I have chosen the smallest size for posting (knowing that it is the original size that is affecting the speed of the upload, capacity, etc.), and have played around with a couple of the parameters the user can choose.
Any suggestions?
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Post by Shiryu on May 8, 2006 8:16:33 GMT -5
Hmm, if you e-mail me the files, I can try to upload them myself, either in imageshack or in my webspace. I'll send you my e-mail address in a p.m.
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Post by Shiryu on May 9, 2006 9:31:23 GMT -5
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Post by dlw66 on May 9, 2006 10:33:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the assist, Shiryu!!
Scan #1 is by George Perez from the 1977 Memory Album Scan #2 is by Jim Mooney from the Bicentennial Calendar, 1976 Scan #3 is by George Perez from the 1980 Dr. Strange calendar Scan #4 is by Sal Buscema, from the 1979 Incredible Hulk calendar Scan #5 is by John Buscema from the 1977 Memory Album Scan #6 is by John Romita from the Bicentennial Calendar, 1976
I hope you all enjoy!!
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Post by Yellowjacket on May 10, 2006 6:56:55 GMT -5
Whoa, that are really some great pictures!
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Post by Shiryu on May 10, 2006 8:44:25 GMT -5
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Post by dlw66 on May 10, 2006 8:48:35 GMT -5
Shiryu should be annointed "Jpg-Man"!!
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Post by Shiryu on May 10, 2006 8:51:26 GMT -5
Eh eh eh, that would be a nice title
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Post by Bored Yesterday on May 16, 2006 13:17:30 GMT -5
Wow! The smaller sizes helped. Those are absolutely amazing. Maybe Marvel will go back to doing calendars. I would get one.
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Post by dlw66 on May 16, 2006 13:51:50 GMT -5
It's very impressive when you consider the workload that some of those artists carried back then and they were also able to do the "extras", like these calendar pages, covers for other books and/or special projects. Today I understand the art is more detailed, but I wonder how many artists put out more than one book in a month?
At one time, Sal Buscema did 7, I believe. Not to mention what Kirby was churning out in the early 60's...
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Post by Yellowjacket on May 17, 2006 5:42:42 GMT -5
And oftentimes their art is still better than that of the artists today... ;D
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Post by Shiryu on May 17, 2006 9:20:54 GMT -5
The same can be said for the writers. Today they usually write no more than 4 books a month, in the past Lee had to run nearly thw whole M.U. (even though the artists were co-plotters too).
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Post by dlw66 on Jul 23, 2006 13:12:43 GMT -5
A reflection from my reading on the Avengers DVD-ROM: I've re-read issues 1-10 so far and one of the things I noticed in the ads in these comics is that there are solicitations for buying/selling stamps and coins, but not for comics. My question would be, for anyone out there who is a guru on comics fandom, is when did comic collecting become a serious hobby? I know comics conventions began in the later 1960's, but it seems odd that by 1964, with DC's Silver Age already underway for approximately 8 years, that there would be no ads for people buying or selling comics collections...
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Post by bobc on Jul 24, 2006 10:34:21 GMT -5
Even I'm not that ancient, DL. Sorry. I know back in the 70's my Dad whined about how he threw out his Superman #1 way back when, so there was some awareness in that era.
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Post by dlw66 on Aug 11, 2006 22:54:40 GMT -5
Saw this on the FF DVD-ROM, issues #97 and 98 (early 1970).
"Nobody Loves the Hulk" a great new rock record! For $1 the buyer could obtain a 45-rpm record. The band was never named...
This would have predated the Spidey rock album by about 5 years.
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Post by Nutcase65 on Apr 20, 2007 13:04:46 GMT -5
not adding anything to this thread, I just want everyone to take a close look at the History in the first entry on the thread.
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Post by fiero84 on May 11, 2007 0:33:58 GMT -5
I never bought anything from an Ad in Marvel. I was lucky to scrape coins to BUY the comics, nevermind Xray Specs. Superheroes fighting villians over Hostess twinkies, that was pretty cheesy. But I did see an occasional movie Marvel would plug. Guess their ads kind of worked.
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Post by The Night Phantom on May 21, 2007 22:04:02 GMT -5
I was reading the first story in the Captain America and the Falcon: Nomad TPB, reprinted from Cap #177, when I happened upon an amazing narrative sequence: a dimension-phasing alien villain called Lucifer breaks into a grocery store after hours and sates his hunger on sweets; later, when he starts to involuntarily phase out of Earth’s dimension, he realizes it’s because the chemicals of his snack changed his body’s composition! Foiled by fun-filled, fattening foodstuffs! Now doesn’t this sound like the plot of a Hostess ad?!? According to Seanbaby.com’s “Hostess Page”, the Hostess ads featuring comic icons debuted in 1977—but Captain America #177 is a 1974 publication! Is this right? Did Steve Englehart’s Secret Empire–Nomad storyline prefigure the classic Hostess comics ads?!? By the hoary Hostess® of Hoggoth!!!
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Post by dlw66 on May 22, 2007 8:48:46 GMT -5
On Englehart's website he proudly proclaims that HIS Batman, in collaboration with Marshall Rogers (circa Detective Comics #469-476) was the basis for the script of the 1989 Keaton/Nicholson film. Now, we find that indeed, his impact on the comics industry, and indeed all of pop culture, runs much deeper!
Phantom, an exalt, for you truly are the Darknight Detective!
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Post by The Night Phantom on May 23, 2007 20:26:18 GMT -5
Phantom, an exalt, for you truly are the Darknight Detective! Ha ha! If I had been looking for a title at all, I would have settled for le Détective Fantôme (readers of Civil War-era FF will understand), but what a veritably great kudos! ;D
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Post by Nutcase65 on May 24, 2007 15:17:53 GMT -5
Phantom, an exalt, for you truly are the Darknight Detective! Ha ha! If I had been looking for a title at all, I would have settled for le Détective Fantôme (readers of Civil War-era FF will understand), but what a veritably great kudos! ;D He says as he haunts the Louvre.
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Post by Nutcase65 on May 24, 2007 16:18:37 GMT -5
as far as the ads go, did anyone ever order that chest of army men, navy ships and warplanes. It was a footlocker with a ton of stuff listed. I always wanted to know if that was as cool as it looked or if it was just crap like the x-ray specs.
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Post by dlw66 on May 24, 2007 16:39:53 GMT -5
...just crap like the x-ray specs. You got it, my friend. VERY small pieces, and flat -- no 3-D like the bags of soldiers they sell at the grocery store. But, for $1 you couldn't really go all that wrong; just disappointing for a 7-year old...
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Post by Nutcase65 on May 24, 2007 17:54:06 GMT -5
ahhhhh man, even the soldier pieces were flat?
forget seven, I'd be ticked today too.
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Post by dlw66 on Jun 21, 2007 12:17:10 GMT -5
Ooh, this could be a VERY cool book. If any of you have Batman Collected by Chip Kidd, and if this is anything close, it could be a really neat trip down Mego lane, FOOM lane, the MMMS lane, and on and on!! Amazon says the book ships in the fall.
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Post by Tana Nile on Jun 24, 2007 16:09:01 GMT -5
That looks like a really fun book!
Speaking of crappy toys, did anyone else ever get a Spider-Man playset, circa about 1975, that had two-dimensional, cardboard figures of Spidey and his villains? The playset itself was cardboard with a vinyl covering, and was a typical New York street scene,with a building that represented the Daily Bugle.
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Post by dlw66 on Jun 24, 2007 19:52:03 GMT -5
I never had it but I do remember it!
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