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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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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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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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.

Thanks a million for reading Marvelmania fanatics, and see ya next blog!

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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!

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The care and protection of old posters

I often am asked how best to protect and/or preserve old (and newer) comic book posters. Aside from purchasing somewhat expensive archival supplies for the protection of your precious paper pin-ups, the following are some very good (albeit not complete) tips:

If you’ll be displaying your posters, try displaying them behind a glass or plexiglass type frame. An easy trap to fall into (if you’re not going to display a particular poster) is to roll it up and keep it rolled up by the use of a rubber band, or even worse, tape. Rubber bands are subject to the same dry rot problems any other rubber products fall prey to, and they can even partially stick to the poster’s paper, potentially ruining the condition and value of your poster.

If you won’t be displaying your poster, your best bet is to keep it in a safe place that’s away from heat and sunlight. A good sturdy poster tube (or architect’s type tube) would be a great idea. And so you don’t get tempted to constantly take your poster out of the tube because you don’t remember which poster is in that tube, it’s a smart move to put a little written note on the outside of the tube. You can indicate on the outside of the tube the poster’s name, and if you are more detailed oriented (like me), you can also write on the slip of paper when you bought the poster, the price you paid for it, size, artist, etc. A little forsight now can save you from handling the poster too much, and possibly bringing the condition down ever so slightly each time you handle it. Over the years, you wouldn’t believe the unbelievable mishaps I’ve had with some of my best posters. I still cringe at the thought!

So there you have it. Some rudimentary tips on the protection of your posters. While it’s not a complete list of common sense tips (you could really go overboard and put ‘em in a bank vault), you’re much better off exercising a little preventive medicine than to pull your hair out when a gorgeous poster you own gets damaged, warped from humidity, faded from sunlight, and other horrors. I see it all too often with the poster collections I aquire, and as I said above, it’s happened to me before (shudder). Ask me sometime about my near mint 1971 Jack Kirby Silver Surfer Third Eye blacklight poster that had a box fall on it, when I could have taken 3 seconds and stored it properly. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go have a good cry.

That’s it for now. Thanks a million for reading!

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First Blog from Supervator.com

This is the Official blog of the Supervator.com vintage comic book posters and art online shopping web-store. Here we discuss the aspects of poster and comic artwork collecting. This is our first blog, and shown here is a gorgeous and rare 1971 Marvel Universe Third Eye Blacklight poster that was drawn by Silver Age Marvelmania, MMMS (Merry Marvel Marching Society), and FOOM era artist, the great John Romita Sr. Shown in this scarce 1970′s neon dayglo black light poster are the Incredible Hulk, the Amazing Spider-man, Dr Strange, Daredevil the Man Without Fear, the Silver Surfer, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, members of the Avengers (Thor, Captain America, Iron Man), Captain Marvel, The Human Torch and the Thing from the Fantastic Four, and Prince Namor the Submariner.

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