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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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.
Sexy Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman from the 1975 live action TV Series!
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.
Angelina Jolie as Wonder Woman? Can you see it? So can millions of others!
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!
1960's TV hero Adam West as Batman vs Julie Newmar as the super hot Catwoman. I'd have frisked her UNTIL I found the stolen jewels.... or something.
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.
1995 Wonder Woman promotional poster by John Byrne. Click on the image for bigger picture and more info.
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?
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Economy sucks? This is a job for the LEGION!
The scarce 1985 Legion of Super-Heroes "We want you" recruitment promo poster
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 watched the Watchmen?
This is a quick, brief, to-the-point, short on time blog about the recently released “Watchmen” movie. I’d read a lot of previews about it, read a lot of reviews about it, but held back my own judgment about it til I saw it first-hand. Thought it was good. Beyond good actually, knowing how very hard it is to translate the comic medium to the silver screen medium.
So no doubt someone held fast against the temptation and pressure of having this film “Hollywoodized”, which usually means the ruination of an already great storyline, hence it wouldn’t have been considered for movie treatment in the first place. I thought the mid 1990′s Batman movies were horrid, because Hollywood took great comic stories that could have been (yes, I said could) faithfully converted to movies. Perhaps even more powerfully than the original paper-bound story. Yes, I thought the Batman films were ruined, but I also felt that way about the Spider-man movies to a lesser extent. Much like that Batman film that showed “Bane” as a dolt, rather than the master villain that broke Batman’s back, I also thought the first Spiderman film ruined a potentially great Green Goblin story. And I don’t mean just by blowing it big time with the “Power Ranger” costume.
Back to the Watchmen. I didn’t feel that way about the Watchmen at all, story-wise, characterization wise, or the outfits. They stuck to the original formula that made it such a hit in 1985 in the first place. Rorschach (portrayed by Jackie Earle
Haley) was awesome, right down to the scratchy whisper of a voice and the no compromise attitude. And I felt myself guiltily rooting for the Comedian (Edward Blake), Silk Spectre was even hotter onscreen than she was in the pre-release promo posters. Nite Owl was damn close to his original characterization, with a bit less wimpiness and much less flab to him. Ozymandias and Dr Manhattan’s characterizations… dead on. And holy $hit, did the fight scenes kick ass, or what? My God, there was more action in the Silk Specter/Night Owl vs the inmates prison scene than in all the Batman franchise movies put together, save the last two with Christian Bale. There was a hell of a lot of gore in Watchmen than I’d anticipated. I figured they’d make the film at least partly watered down so DC Direct could sell more action figures. It wasn’t watered down or compromised at all, which is a super heroic feat in any film, much less one that originated in the comic book genre. I applaud all involved in the film for standing their ground.
Well, I’d best end this allegedly “short” blog here, because I obviously loved the film. Like other comic fans, I get damn tired of the constant idiocy of the “pow” “bam” “zap” legacy of Adam West’s Batman type of lazy reviews that get thrown together for comic type movies, but I didn’t see a whole lot of that for the Watchman. I’d give this movie a solid 9. Although it’s unlikely, it wouldn’t kill me to see a Watchmen II movie come about. I’d be first in line. Now of course, a certain character would have to be brought back from the dead, but come on, who better to figure out a way to bring someone back from the dead than the comic book community?
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Why collect comic book promo posters?
1986 The Watchmen promo poster showing The Comedian (Edward Blake)
To your left is the scarce “The Watchmen” promo poster from 1986 featuring the late, great anti-hero called “the Comedian” (Edward Blake). Click on the poster’s image to check availability from Supervator.com if you like. As of this blog’s writing, fans are anxiously awaiting the silver screen debut of the Watchmen movie based on DC Comics 1980′s mini series by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, therefore Watchmen merchandise is hot. Most are mass produced items however, and may not escalate in value. Promo posters are different, and that brings us back to the subject of this blog. Hundreds or perhaps thousands of Marvel and DC comic fans collect comic shop dealer promotional posters. For those that do, no explanation is necessary. For those that don’t, or those that have thought about it, here’s a few great reasons why you might consider collecting superhero promo posters:
First, there weren’t many of them made at all. As you may know, this type of poster was given only to retail shops, for their display in their comic stores. Most times, a dealer only received one copy, and they were never for sale to the public. And remember, there aren’t many comic book shops left in existence for comic companies to distribute promotional posters to.
Of the few that were made, most get displayed, otherwise damaged, or thrown out. That further reduces the already small quantity of them. For those that like hard to find posters, this is quite a rewarding challenge when you find that super scarce Jim Lee or Alex Ross promo poster you’ve been after for years.
Although they are nearly always folded during their original distribution to retail outlets, promo posters oftentimes feature super-hero images that you cannot find on any other poster.
And here’s something else to think about. With every day that goes by, with the thousands of collectible Marvel, DC Comics, and other publishers posters being exchanged through the mail daily via auctions, fixed price online venues, and online web stores, there no doubt will be a certain number of those posters risking life and limb in the mail that will be damaged on a regular basis, which will make the supply of some posters dwindle by the day. That increases rarity even further.
There are just a few of my thoughts regarding the collection of rare and vintage comic store promo posters. I could go on forever on this subject, but I may go into further detail sometime down the road.
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