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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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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Have no fear: I will explain Daredevil Color Guide Art

Hello, blog and comic art fans! Tonight’s blog is gonna be about fear, but don’t worry. It’s a good kind of fear! It’s about Daredevil, the Man Without Fear! As DD’s fans know, Daredevil TMWOF started his crime fighting superhero career back in 1964, in his silver age Marvel Comics Group issue 1 debut. DD is of course the blind New York City (and once San Francisco California) attorney, named Matt Murdock. Not only did Matthew Murdock have his hands full dealing with NYC criminals by day as a lawyer, but he also dealt with crime during his nightly rounds as the Man Without Fear.

I remember as a kid reading “Giant-Size Daredevil” issue 1 (which was a reprint of an old DD annual issue), and trying like hell to make my own Daredevil billy club, as shown on one of the pages of that Giant Size comic book. Drove me and my family nuts. Hell, I was always doing something comic related, like using a car’s emergency brake cable pretending I was that Ironman villain “Whiplash”, and whipping my plastic Marx Toy Company Marvel statue set (yes, I admit it). And when I was five, I foolishly cut my Mom’s floor wax can (yes, made of METAL), and tried to squeeze into it so I could be Iron Man. It cut the living s*it out of me. And then there was the time I tried to use those Tic Tacs plastic candy dispensers to make homemade Spider-man web-shooters that I filled with Elmer’s Glue. Oh by the way, this is just scratching the surface. There was also the time I thought I was Iron Fist and tried for fight a kid named David outside on my lawn. The only thing was, David *was* actually into Martial Arts unlike myself, so I got my Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu (and my ass) handed to me damn quick. I remember crying when the Mad Hatter (David Wayne) dropped liquid cement on Batman (Adam West) at the end of a 2 part cliffhanger episode of the 1966 tv show. I was 3 at the time, and I thought they really killed my hero! I was literally  tormented for 7 days until the next episode. I wouldn’t even eat bacon when I was little, til my Mother tricked me by calling it “Batman Bacon”. I swear to GOD!  So to say super-heroes made a huge impact on my life would be a massive understatement. If not for reading comics at around age 4, I’d probably be illiterate today. School taught me nothing. All I ever needed to know I learned from Marvel Comics! YEAH! Stan Lee is still the Man!

Back to Daredevil. My favorite issues of Daredevil were his 1st appearance back in the 1960′s by Wally Wood (yes, of EC Comics fame), by John Romita Sr in the 60′s, by Sal Buscema in the 1970′s, by Frank Miller in the 1980′s, but most especially by Gene Colan. There was just something about the way “Gene the Dean” drew Daredevil that I liked better than all the other talented artists that worked on the character.

Speaking of Gene Colan and Sal Buscema, here’s a couple cool screen shots of some original Marvel Comics color guide pages we currently have available  in our eBay Store. Just click on the photos to see more information about them, as well as check to see if they’re still for sale. As you might know, color guide artwork is also known as colorist’s art. It’s the real deal (they were hand painted by Marvel colorists) , they’re one of a kind, and they don’t make color guides anymore because comics are now colored on computers. Color guides are basically copies of the black & white original artwork, that are shrunk down and given to actual Marvel employees to hand color and draw those funny “color codes” on, so the printer knew exactly which shade of blue (for example) to make Spider-man’s costume. You get the idea. And what’s best about color guides is, there is almost always just one of each page ever made. Yep, when you own one of them, you own the ONLY one of them. Cool, huh?

Are these pages not gorgeous? Believe me, they look even more vivid in person, as color guide art pages usually do. They’re normally very bright in person, compared to the actual published comic book. See, back then, Marvel Comics (or DC Comics, for that matter), could not have published the actual comic books without color guides to show the people at the printing plant exactly which shades of colors Marvel wanted for each superheroe’s costume, for the backgrounds, etc. As of this writing, we still have a limited supply of older Marvel Colorist’s pages, like the Invincible Iron Man, Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, and of course the Amazing Spiderman, among others.

Come take a look at some of these collectible rare pieces of comic book history. Collecting color guide art can be just as fascinating but MUCH less expensive as collecting comic book original art.

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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 very first PUNISHER promo poster?

Hiya, Marvel Super-heroes, and it’s time for another Supervator.com blog. This blog’s subject is none other than Mr Frank Castle, aka The Punisher. Shown here to the left is the 1987 Punisher comic shop dealer’s promotional poster, featuring the artwork of Klaus Janson. To my awareness, this is the very first Punisher promotional poster ever produced. Stark in it’s simplicity, this black and white poster was shipped only to comic store owners and was never for sale to the general public.

You gotta love this poster’s simple message: the Punisher is pissed an’ somebody gonna pay! As the Jim Croce song goes, You don’t mess around with Frank! Certainly, there are earlier Marvel promo posters in existence featuring other Marvel Universe characters, but this one is one of the best. There can’t be a lot of them left in existence, because there weren’t a lot of them produced to begin with. As elaborated above, they were sent to comic retailers for their exclusive display on their walls to advertise various 1980′s Punisher comic series.

This gun totin’ 80′s Punisher promotional poster is currently available at the Supervator.com website.

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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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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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