The JLA vs The X-Men: Who’d Win?

Like a billion Marvel Universe and DC Comics Universe fans, I’ve been consumed day and night with one thought. Which comic book superhero team would win in a giant-size battle between the Uncanny X-Men and the Justice League of America? On one hand, the JLA has the mega super powers of Superman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman, the intimidation power of the Dark Knight Batman, but of course the X-Men have the adamantium healing superpowers of the raging Wolverine, not to mention Rogue, Gambit, Psylocke, and the armored head bust-in super strength of Colossus. With some of the new crossover ideas I’m seeing (like the Marvel Spider-man and Invincible Iron Man crossover toys with Transformers, etc), I would LOVE to somehow, someday see a JLA vs the X-Men major motion picture live action movie.

In honor of the Justice League adventures and the many mutants in the X-Team, here’s some rare vintage comic posters. Just click on the photos for a larger picture, for details on the history of the poster, and to check current availability. The posters are a 1984 Jack Kirby JLA Superpowers poster, based on the 1980′s action figure toys by the Kenner toy company. THIS poster was given only to comic shop dealers, and what’s even more rare is that THIS particular promo poster was NEVER ROLLED, like nearly all promotional posters are. This is great news! The other poster shown is a huge 60 by 30 inch Uncanny X-Men door poster from ’95 by artist Claudio Castellini. It’s much more detailed once you click on the image to show the larger size.

Thanks as always to our loyal Supervator.com Super-Blog readers! We appreciate your continued readership and business! See ya next blog!

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The Captain America movie, Thor movie, the Green Lantern movie, and Avengers movie!

Time for a really quick blog. By now, most of you diehard comic book superhero fans and live action movie buffs know there are some more upcoming DC Comics and Marvel movies.

I am so looking forward to the Chris Evans Capt America, Chris Hemsworth Thor, the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie, and somewhere down the line, the Avengers movie. They should rock, and the night they debut in theatres, I’m there. If they’re even 1/2 as great as the Robert Downey Jr Iron Man movie and the Christian Bale Batman the Dark Knight movies, they’ll be incredible. Looking forward to Spider-man 4 also, but I mostly want to see a Wonder Woman movie! And don’t let the movie studios or anyone connected to them design Diana Prince’s amazon costume. Stick to the classic and best one. Don’t redesign the wheel, comic editorial teams and movie designers. Don’t change what the fans love. It could make the difference between a mega-hit and being relegated to “straight to video” hell.

Since the Mighty Avengers have been around since 1963, I’m going to commemorate the Avengers by showing our loyal Supervator Super-Blog readers some very cool VINTAGE Captain America, Mighty Thor, and Avengers posters! Just click on the images below to see a larger view of the posters, and to check current availability. Some have artwork by Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Ron Frenz, Alex Ross, Mike Zeck, Golden Age artist Alex Schomburg, and Silver Age legend John Romita Sr.

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EC Comics: “The Day the Comics Almost Died”

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You know, people can be so sensitive, and it’s not just nowdays with all the stupid politically correct rules wafting through the air, like you can’t say this word, you can’t say that word, trying to pass legislation to call French Fries “Freedom Fries”. Yeah, retarded shit like that. Well, back in the 1950′s (actually starting in the late 1940′s), comic books nearly went the way of color guide artwork, in other words, comics almost became extinct. There isn’t enough time to go into lengthy details, but Dr Frederic Wertham’s book “the Seduction of the Innocent” and the CCA Comics Code Authority almost wiped out (some say it did) an entire genre of comic book stories… the EC Comics horror line. Tales from the Crypt, Crypt of Terror, the Vault of Horror, all nearly as dead as the protagonists in those old EC stories. Of course, did EC and Bill Gaines get any credit for their clever storylines, plot twists, surprise endings, anti racist and other socially ahead of their time stances, and the enormously fantastic artwork from their artists? Oh, of course not, except for the fans, many of which were EC “Fan-Addicts”. I mean, EC had one hell of a stable of artists such as Harvey Kurtzman, Joe Orlando, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels (“Ghastly Graham Ingles”), George Evans, John Severin, Bill Elder, Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, and Johnny Craig. Their original art is highly prized and sought after today, as it should be.

I‘m oversimplifying things here, but all Big Brother cared about how sociopathic our children were definitely going to be if they even read one EC Comic book. I mean, you write just ONE story about a wife having her husband stuffed and taxidermied because he killed and stuffed your cat, and now you’re the bad guy! What’s up with ‘dat, Willis? Or worse, newsstands quit carrying your product just because you feature a few covers showing mundane stuff like a guy laying dead (hopefully) on the ground and on fire, a guy getting his forehead parted like the Red Sea with an ax, undead zombies returning from the dead to have a nooner with their grieving wife, someone getting bludgeoned with an electric toothbrush, torture covers, bondage girl covers, etc. That kind of tame stuff that nobody blinks at in today’s movies. And by the way, EC also had other titles like Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, you know, the kind of war comics where THOUSANDS of people routinely get annihilated by page 2? Did the Comics Code have a problem with that? Ah, maybe they did, I don’t know. Anyway, my point being that people were screwed up LONG before paper was invented to print comics ON, they’re screwed up NOW, and they’ll be screwed up when we’re all reading our comics exclusively  on our cellphones someday.

But since the subject for this Supervator Super-Blog is EC Comics (ie “Entertaining Comics”), I’ve included some pictures of just a few of the many vintage EC Comics cover art posters we have. Just click on the photos to check their current availability. Well, I still very much treasure my EC Comics to this day. The Suspenstories, the shocks, the surprises, the outside the box thinking, the magnificient artwork, the FUN. I think EC catered to our universal fear of death, that “morbid fascination” we have with dying. We want to know more ABOUT it, but we ain’t gonna be volunteering any time soon to put our own toes in the water, so to speak.

Well Dear Monsters, we’re out of time. Thanks a Million for reading the SuperBlog! Click on the pics and check out all the EC posters and see if you think they’re so bad!

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Best Batman poster artist of all time?!?

Here's a big hello to the world's greatest superheroes
that read the Supervator.com blog! Who's YOUR favorite
Batman poster artist? Jim Lee? Neal Adams? Frank Miller?
Someone else? Mine has always been Carmine Infantino,
the former silver age Detective Comics artist. I even think
his art was used for the box artwork on the 70's Batman
Mego action figure. Speaking of Carmine Infantino being my
all time favorite Batman artist, here's a rare treat. Here's
an original and very rare vintage BATMAN wall poster from
the 1970's, and of course this poster features the artwork
of CARMINE INFANTINO. Adam West would be proud!

Click on poster for availability!

This scarce bronze age dark knight
Batman poster measures a large
35 by 24 inches approximately,
and it was produced by a company
called Studio One. This poster
shows the Copyright dates of 1973
and 1976, and the words "National
Periodical Publications", and NPP
was the previous owner of the DC
Comic book franchise. The Caped
Crusader is shown swinging over the
landscape of Gotham City, with the
Bat-Signal beckoning in the
background. Wow.

There cannot be many of these
particular posters left in existence!
Batmania fans rejoice! Is this the
most beautiful Batman poster you've
ever seen or what?!? Click on the photo for a larger view and
for current availability.

Well, my allotted Bat-Blog time is up! See ya again, same
Bat-time, same Bat-Channel!

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Your favorite Jim Lee work? X-Men? Batman? Superman? Wonder Woman?

Hi people! It’s been a while since I’ve had time to do a blog, but here I am. Hope all the readers of the Supervator.com blog are doing well. This blog’s subject is phenominally popular artist JIM LEE. What’s your favorite character that Jim Lee has drawn? Is it Batman, Nightwing, Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men? Somebody else? For me, it’s his X-Men work, such as the work he did on X-Men issue 1 back in the 1990′s. By the way, the poster shown is the huge X-Men door poster published by Marvel Press Posters back in 1992. This giant size poster is about 59 by 30 inches, and shows Marvel Universe mutants like Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Storm, Colossus, the Beast, Professor X, Psylocke, and more. Just click on the photo to see if we still have it available for sale.

Meantime, I really love Jim Lee’s artwork, and I’ve notice more than a few toys and other superhero merchandise bearing his artwork nowdays, for example, in a lot of Batman products. The man is an icon, and our cowls are off to him!

Well, that’s all time allows for this blog. Thanks for reading, and feel free to check out all the posters and artwork currently available on SUPERVATOR.COM. Tell your friends!

Beer girl posters: What’s not to love?

This latest blog is about promotional posters featuring the luscious legs, busts, and other assorted gifts of beer girl posters. These promo posters were distributed only to retail stores, liquor stores, bar owners, or other authorized retailers. They were never for sale to the public (sorry guys) and were made in very small quantities. And as Married With Children tv sitcom character Al Bundy once said, “Pretty women make us buy beer, ugly women make us DRINK beer”. That statement is right up there with the Ten Commandments and the invention of the wheel, if you ask me.

We’ve got a limited supply of some really hot looking beer girl posters by Coors Light up in our ebay store. Just click on the links if you want to know these girls a little bit better! Peace!

Archie Comics: Still fun to read?

With over 6 decades since his inception in 1941, Archie Andrews has seen some changes, but is basically the same red-headed teenager his fans have known and loved, along with his Riverdale High friends Betty Cooper (the blonde girl), Veronica Lodge (the brunette), Reggie Mantle and of course Forsythe “Jughead” Jones. Archie started out way back in the golden age of comics back in 1941 in “Pep Comics” issue 22, which was published by MLJ (before the company name was changed to Archie Comics).

After some debate on whether it would still be cool to read Archie comic books, I gave it a shot for old time’s sake. And you know what? I had a blast! It’s a nice departure from the same old superhero beats up (or tries to beat up) the super-villain.

I recommend you try it sometime, and meantime, below is a link to some Archie original color guide artwork that is currently available (which was actually used by the colorist to create some of the comic books), and some HUGE Archie and Jughead door posters that go all the way back to 1987. To see these colorist’s art pages and vintage posters, just click on the link below.

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From the 1940′s, 1950′s, 1960′s, 1970′s, 1980′s, 1990′s, and beyond, “Archiekins”, you still got it!

Thanks for all the great memories Archie, and dear readers, see ya next blog!

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Isn’t it time for a WONDER WOMAN MOVIE?

Wonder Woman, I don't know what you're charging me with, but I DID IT!!

It’s time for a new Supervator.com blog, this time on one of my favorite subjects: Comic superhero movies. Well, now there’ve been recent silver screen versions of the X-Men, Wolverine, Spider-man, Batman the Dark Knight, Superman, the Hulk, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Elektra, the Watchmen, and a few others.

Well, what about WONDER WOMAN? Where’s HER movie, Warner Brothers? I mean, she’s only been around since, what, 1941? With all this procrastination, thank God she’s an amazon goddess and doesn’t age. With the roll that comic movies are on nowadays, this is the perfect time for a major motion picture release of the JLA’s hot & sexy main female superhero.

Now, which actress would I like to see play Wonder Woman? How about actresses like Angelina Jolie (she’s already played Lara Croft/Tombraider), Jessica Alba (who’s already played the Invisible Girl in the Fantastic Four films), Megan Fox, Katherine Heigl, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Zeta-Jones, or even Natalie Portman. I can easily imagine a powerful soundtrack song by a group like Nickelback or a lady singer like Beyonce Knowles. And even if you put an unknown actress in the role, if Warner Brothers cast directors choose well (you know what I mean), you could put BILLIONS of girl-crazy males in movie theatre seats to see this one, and probably even a bunch of women too! Who knows? It’s 2009, and I got no problem with girls loving girls!

Ok, I’m back. Had to go smoke a cigarette. Anway, while we’re on the subject of Wonder Woman, I’ll bet no one remembers this: CBS (or ABC, I think) had a 1974 original Wonder Woman tv pilot movie (yes, our WW), starring a blonde Kathy Lee Crosby (not to be confused with singer and Regis Philbin ex talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford). But I’ve always preferred Lynda Carter as the amazon goddess Diana Prince in 1975, and for me, she was the ultimate comics to television babe. Oh all right, so was Julie Newmar as Catwoman in the 1966 Adam West Batman series. AND Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis as “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl” from the Elektra Woman Saturday morning kid’s live action cartoon. AND Joanna Cameron as ISIS. Ok, there. I’m done. Til I think of some others in about 5 minutes.

Now, what good is a blog about a gorgeous brunette lady superhero without some more pics of her? So just for kicks, here’s a rare 1990′s Wonder Woman comic shop dealer promotional poster shown below that is currently available, featuring art by artist John Byrne. Just click on the promo poster picture for more info. More Wonder Woman merchandise is available at Supervator.com as well as in our eBay listings under the name “Supervator”.

Getting back to the subject at hand, DC Comics and the Warner Brothers movie franchise obviously could rake in the money hand over gloved fist if a Wonder Woman movie were made, written well, cast well, and promoted to the hilt. And we know from the past, the people at Warner’s know how to promote things, and promote them well. Heath Ledger as the Joker is one example, but it didn’t hurt to have Heath’s acting genius in the mix. Right now, Marvel Comics movies are “winning” the battle among comic superhero films, but Wonder Woman just might turn the tide for DC and have better mass appeal to both sexes than a male oriented guy like the Hulk that walks around yelling “Me smash”. Think of the merchandising for Wonder Woman products, the soundtrack sales, the toys, the Halloween costumes (well, maybe not), the action figures, t-shirt sales, the comic books, the posters, and on and on.

Well, I’ve got to go process a new order. Business calls again, but that’s what having a website is for, right? I’ll do one more quick minute of blogging to wrap this subject up. So in summary, what do YOU think, loyal blog readers? Want to see a Wonder Woman action film as badly as I do? And who would you put in the skin-tight, nearly nude red, blue, and yellow costume? Oh yeah, that brings up another quick point. Whenever they do get around to making a Wonder Woman film, unless you’re gonna make her totally naked, DON’T SCREW WITH HER COSTUME, all right?

Thanks a million for reading,

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Economy sucks? This is a job for the LEGION!

Hiya, DC Comics Universe fans, comic collectors, and the many Supervator comic art and posters blog readers. Nice being with you today in cyberland. Economy got you down? Feeling powerless to do anything about it? You know, despite how we each may feel about the economic recession (or depression, depending on who you talk to), wouldn’t it be great to just call on the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES to come out and fix a few things, Legion Style? Man, that’d be great! Things would turn around in a BIG hurry, I can tell you that. And except for hanging around recently with the Amazing Spider-man (or do I have that backwards?), President Barack Obama is still just a normal man and is doing everything he reasonably can to get the Country out of the financial tar pit America currently finds itself in. And he may not pull it off, despite his best intentions. I say, let’s get some superheroes into the fray and call out the LEGION! As long as they don’t blow up the DC Universe (or ours), I think we’d be out of this economic mess real soon!

And apparently, the Legion of Superheroes is looking for some new recruits, at least from what I read on this “We want you to join the Legion” 1985  comic shop promo poster. Check it out in our Supervator eBay Store by just clicking on the photo’s link. Nothing in life seems quite so bad with one of these bad-boys hanging proudly on your wall! Only authorized comic book shop dealers got this promotional poster back in the 1980′s, and they’re scarce.

As you probably read in the headlines, I’ve also read some news forecasts about how long this economic downturn (recession, etc) is apt to last. Some analysts say we’ll pull out of this in 2009, some say much later, some say never, some say it’s impossible to recover. We’re just in too deep. I think fear is the biggest thing holding us back, like a self-fulfilling prophesy bringing about the very thing we fear. Of course, nothing’s that simple, but I’ve a feeling that we’re a tougher breed than even we give ourselves credit for, and it’s gonna be all right in the end. Whether we join the Legion or not.

Peace out,

Supervator.com Staff

Who better than da X-MEN?

Hello Marvel Comics super heroes, and welcome to the latest blog on the subject of vintage comic posters and original comic book art! What you see here is an often tough to find gem: It’s an original 1994 UNCANNY X-MEN 34 by 22 inch retail poster, showing the EXACT SAME IMAGE used for the Fleer Ultra trading card set team “portrait”. And, from what I understand, it was very difficult to acquire all the Fleer trading cards needed to make up this image. This ’94 poster features painted artwork by brothers Tim and Greg Hildebrandt, and it’s Marvel Press poster number 174. SHOWN ARE mutant heroes like Wolverine, Sabertooth, Bishop, Professor X, the Beast, Rogue, GAMBIT, Archangel (the Angel), Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), Storm, Psylocke, Iceman, and Cyclops. The painted art is much more incredible in person on this astonishing X-Men poster, and it’s currenly available (as of this writing) in our Supervator eBay Store. You can check it out just by clicking on the picture’s link!

Seeing this poster in our warehouse today reminded me of something. Now with the success of the “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” movie with Hugh Jackman, it’d be great to at long last see all the major X-Men franchise characters appear in one movie, like Wolvie, Jean Grey, Deadpool, Gambit, Rogue, Sabretooth, Bishop, you know what I mean. The big guns. Speaking of that, Cable would also be cool to see larger than life on the silver screen too.

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