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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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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Rock & Roll Music, Marvelmania Style!

Welcome to Supervator.com’s latest blog, this time about some of the great superhero record albums and vinyl single 45′s that have been produced by companies like Buddah Records, Peter Pan Records, Lifesong Records, Power Records, etc. There was even an album called “Spider-man” by Freddie McCoy, which featured a spectacular Spider-man cover by Steve Ditko. There was also a “Marvel World of Icarus” album featuring all the major 1960′s Marvel super-heroes emblazoned on the cover, like Thor, Daredevil, the Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, and Spidey. Marvel was on it’s way into musical mass consciousness!

I was a kid back in 1972 when the Amazing Spider-man 33 1/3 lp “Rockomic” album came out in record stores called “Beyond the Grave”. It featured awesome front cover, back cover, and inner gatefold art by Silver Age Marvel Comics Group artist John Romita Sr. Shown on (and heard in) the album were Spiderman, the Green Goblin, the Vulture, the Kingpin, the Lizard, and Dr Strange. In fact, I think the idea to have Doctor Strange team-up with Spidey stemmed from the Master of the Mystic Arts recently (back then in the 1970′s) guest starring in the Amazing Spider-man issue 109 comic book. It had to be. Team-ups were pretty rare and special back then, not commonplace like now. Years ago, Supervator.com acquired a limited number of these scarce never-folded Jazzy Johnny Romita Spider-man posters, and they’re now available for sale through our webstore. We are probably the only place on earth that possesses any of these old Spider-man posters that have miraculously escaped the folding process.

Back to the subject of the marriage of comics and rock and roll. I’m sure I’m leaving a few records out featuring Marvel Universe superheroes, but there were many decent musical efforts. Some were cheaply made, and it showed, but they were sure fun. In fact, I got so inspired by the old Power Records “book and record set” releases that I made my own “audio comics” with my cassette tape recorder when I was about 10 years old. Oh my God, do I remember! One of my swift ideas was to act out all the parts to the Amazing Spider-man issue 123 comic book, the issue when Spidey fights Luke Cage, “Hero for Hire”. I needed sound effects and couldn’t think of anything good to use, so guess what? To imitate the sound of breaking glass, I stomped on a BOXFUL of old 1960′s Aurora monsters model kits that I had assembled and fully painted years ago. Great idea, eh? No wonder they’re scarce now. Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, the Phantom of the Opera, Godzilla, King Kong, and ALL the other kits haunt me to this day. I had all 12 Aurora monster models in that fateful cardboard box. And you know what? I don’t even HAVE the stupid homemade cassette tape anymore that I made of me acting out the scenes from Spider-man 123. I won’t even get into the torture I subjected my old Hasbro GI Joe action figures and Captain Action dolls to.

Anyways, not that I didn’t like the 1960′s Batman albums or the 70′s Power Albums of Superman, Wonder Woman, and other DC Comics heroes (especially the covers showing artwork by Neal Adams), but I have a special place somehow for Marvelmania and MMMS Merry Marvel Marching Society type of stuff. Stuff such as the “Scream Along with Marvel” recording from the 60′s featuring Stan Lee and the Marvel Bullpen artists like Jack Kirby.

ARRRRGH! I was just getting into this blog, but business calls with another order for the Supervator web-store. Gotta go!! I’d love to talk more at length about comic book’s forays into recorded music sometime, and I never got to talk about the old 70′s Fantastic Four radio serials like I wanted to. ARRGH! Thanks a million for reading!

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Unanswered questions about Marvel Third Eye and FOOM “Friends of Ol’ Marvel” Posters

Hello, my fellow super-heroes! In this blog, I’m going to talk about the 70′s FOOM Club posters, and the Marvel Third Eye posters from the early 1970′s that were sold in some stores, record shops, and headshops (yes, the places that sell drug paraphernalia).

I’m sure many of you long-time comic fans remember the 1973 or 1974 F.O.O.M fanclub, Marvel’s followup to the 1966 MMMS (Merry Marvel Marching Society) and (approximately) 1969 Marvelmania International Club.

Foom was just awesome, and I loved that color poster that Jim Steranko did of the Marvel Universe heroes. The 12 different double or triple color mini posters, I’m sorry to say, didn’t do it for me. At all. Even if they were in the background of a Bruce Willis movie. There were so many better Marvel cover images they could have used for these mini posters, and I wish they used more colors. I’m sure it was a cost saving measure, and I’d probably do the same if I was in Marvel’s shoes (or should I say “in Marvel’s costumes?”)

Just imagine what those meagerly colored Marvel Foom posters would be worth right now, if only they were larger sized, showed more colors, and had better cover image choices? Don’t get me wrong, I love almost everything Marvel was doing in the 1960′s and early 1970′s. But the good news is, we do have that great full color Steranko Foom member kit promo poster to “Marvel” at.

I had the same reservations about the 1971 Marvel blacklight posters that were produced by a NYC company called The Third Eye, Inc. No doubt the 3rd Eye neon/day-glo posters were utterly gorgeous, but the images they chose, and some of the CHARACTERS they chose, leave me wondering who made those decisions. I doubt it was Stan Lee, although I’ve been wrong once or twice before in my life.

(UH-OH WARNING TIME: I’m about to get on my Supervator Soap-Box and talk indefinitely about the dayglo Third Eye Marvel posters from ’71. You’ve been warned!)

Why was there a Black Bolt or Medusa black light poster? Why so many featuring Dr Strange or Namor the Submariner? Who the hell wants a black light poster of Odin and Hela, but Thor’s not shown in it?? I love John Buscema’s art on it, but WTF! And the other Thor poster showing him up-close kissing Sif? What about that? Yuck! Not the Sif part, I mean, for a goddess, Lady Sif was pretty hot. Why did the world need a Captain America poster showing Cap turning backwards on his motorcycle to wave goodbye to the Falcon? Why were the Spider-man blacklight posters so boring in their image selection? Why, Lord, Why? Why not a poster showing some of that KILLER art Steve Ditko did in Amazing Spider-man Annual 1, for example? Where’s the Green Goblin? Where’s Mysterio (talk about a psychedelic character who’d be perfect for mind-altering posters!). What about that incredible beyond words splash page that Ditko did in Spiderman Annual 1 showing Spidey blasting Electro across the face? That would have made the world’s greatest super-heroes poster of all time!

Also, why do the 2 Incredible Hulk posters made by the 3rd Eye show the Hulk (a guy purportedly 10 feet tall) AS PRACTICALLY A MIDGET! Go check eBay or something about this. I mean it. One of the biggest superhero characters in the Marvel Universe, and he’s a m-i-d-g-e-t in both posters! I don’t get it. Although I was a little kid at the time, they should have let ME pick the images shown, and which characters are shown.

The only Third Eye posters I thought were great were one of the Jack “King” Kirby Fantastic Four, Kirby’s “Astral Thor”, the Jack Kirby Captain America (where Cap is hitting bad guys to his right and his left), and the absolute best two were the Silver Surfer “At last I’m free” by Kirby, and the Invincible Iron Man poster showing art by Gene Colan, as Ironman is breaking apart one of those trap walls that close in on it’s victims, which was taken directly from a splash page in Tales of Suspense/TOS.

But of course, topping even the Iron Man poster in the series of 24 Third Eye posters was the promotional poster drawn by my Silver Age inspiration, the Jazzy Mr John Romita Sr. Johnny Romita’s promo poster for the Third Eye posters series showed all the big guns like Capt America, Hulk, Thor, Spider-man, Daredevil, Iron Man, and even Black Bolt from the Inhumans with a BLUE mouth from the colorist.

All right, once again I need to be stopped before I blog all over myself about these posters. It’s just that, I love them, I’ve personally owned a few, I’ve sold several hundred of them by now, and I wish Marvel would release another series of large blacklight posters, possibly with another company, of course, because the Third Eye Inc has been gone for decades. (I loved the Third Eye Poster company’s other work too, like their head shop posters, their Marvel heroes jigsaw puzzles, and their Marvel greeting card series). As you can obviously tell, I have a passion for old Marvel posters. But next time you produce some posters, ol’ House of Ideas, let ME pick the images!

Thanks a Million for reading,

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