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?
JIM LEE GIANT SIZE X-MEN 1 COVER POSTER
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!
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 better than da X-MEN?
1994 X-Men Team Fleer Ultra Cards Poster by Greg & Tim Hildebrandt
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!
the SIX FOOT TALL 1966 Steve Ditko MMMS Spider-man 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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Staff
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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
1973 FOOM Club Poster by Jim Steranko
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.
Jack Kirby's Silver Surfer "At Last I'm Free" 1971 Third Eye black light poster
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.
Captain America Third Eye blacklight poster (artwork by Jack Kirby)
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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