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.

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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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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!

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?

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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,

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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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The Big Daddy of them all: The 1966 Steve Ditko Amazing Spider-man 6 foot MMMS Door Poster!

Drum roll, please…… This is THE rarest and most sought after Marvel Comics poster of all time: the 1966 Spider-man six foot door poster produced by the Merry Marvel Marching Society (MMMS) fan club, featuring artwork by original Spiderman artist and co-creator STEVE DITKO. As of this writing, this poster is available on eBay.com. Just click on the poster’s photo for the link.

From what I’d heard behind the scenes years ago, this 1960′s Spidey door poster was going to be the first in a series of Marvel Comics Group superhero door posters, and can you believe the cost was just $1.99? That is not a misprint. Kind of blows my mind. My supposition here is that perhaps Marvel did not sell enough units of this poster to make it financially worthwhile to produce other Marvel Comics Group MMMS door posters. Doesn’t seem possible, does it? Maybe $1.99 was too much to ask back then? Either way, it’s a shame.

Now, can you just imagine what the other 60′s Marvel door posters would have looked like? I can. Let’s speculate a moment. Because the year was 1966, you can bet Jack “King” Kirby would have had a hand in some of the images chosen, and maybe John Romita Sr and Gene Colan.  If anyone can put the entire Fantastic Four or Uncanny X-Men on one 6 foot tall by 32 inches wide poster, it’s Jack Kirby. A Don Heck Mighty Avengers poster might have been tough to pull off because of the number of heroes on the team, but I can easily envision a Gene Colan Iron Man or Namor the Sub-mariner door poster produced from an old silver age Tales of Suspense or Tales to Astonish comic book. Kirby would of course been tapped on the shoulder to do a Captain America or Mighty Thor poster. And Jazzy Johnny Romita would have been the man for a giant-size Daredevil door poster, and of COURSE Spider-man too if Ditko hadn’t already done it. I can’t claim to like the poses or scenes chosen for many of the comic superhero commercial posters (think of the 1966 Batman Personality Poster that says “Nonsense, there’s no such thing as” (ghosts) by Carmine Infantino), but they picked the ultimate Spider-man pose for the Ditko door poster. This was one of the few that was done right. It was used on tons of Spider-man toys and memorabilia later, and was even the corner “price box” icon for Amazing Spider-man comic books during the 1980′s.

All this speculation on “what if” Marvel door posters reminds me of something really important that I’m sure 1 in ten million Marvel 1960′s fans even know about. Remember the medium sized 42 by 29 inch Spidey and Incredible Hulk posters by “Personality Posters”? And do you also remember the 8 mini posters set (about 17 by 11 inches each) that were sold all together in a plastic bag with a “Marvel Superheroes” header card? Well, if you recall, artist Marie Severin drew (I believe) all 8 of the heroes, which were Spider-man (based on the earlier Ditko pose), the Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Submariner, Dr Strange, and the Human Torch. BUT, did you know that Stan Lee and Marvel had considered or had planned to ALSO release mini posters of Daredevil, Dr Doom, and the Thing from the Fantastic Four? It’s true. I saw the original art to all 3 of the unpublished posters on eBay back around 1999. They were listed in someone’s auction, then for unknown reasons the auctions were stopped before there was an official winning bidder. Broke my heart, because I was planning on taking a shot at acquiring all three.

Well, I’m out of time, and it’s time to get back to the business of selling rare old comic book posters and color guide artwork. But the above makes me bummed out to think that there could have been an entire series of 1960′s Marvel king-size door posters that collectors could still be fawning over and seeking out today.

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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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