You have to give it to the boys at Marvel – they’re pulling out all the stops for their 70th Anniversary! By far, though, this new feature showcasing vintage ads that ran in old Marvel comics has to be my favorite.
Kind of looks like a familiar feature, though…
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I love – LOVE – the fact that this futuristic super hero of the 70s comes with his adventures forever archived on a 45. Hopefully someone’s got this, has ripped it to mp3 and it’s online somewhere, just waiting to be listened to…
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I’m pretty sure that this ad ran on and off for years in Marvel’s titles, but I never noticed until now just how borderline racist it is. Did the dude Jim meets on a street corner have to be a black guy with an afro with the greeting of “What’s happenin?” To top that off, [...]
It’s been a while since we posted one of these, but when I stumbled across this vintage karate ad I knew immediately I had to share it. Even when it came out, you knew by looking at it that it was pretty much total crap – not even a 10 year old kid believed he’d [...]
Just a friendly public reminder that, as awesome as the Transformers are, they really never had much in the way of direct competition. Hard to believe the Gobots were ever popular enough to warrant a movie, much less product endorsement tie-ins. Really, the “grand prize” was more of a booby prize, and look; even the [...]
The fun has definitely come back to Threadless the last few months, beating back the joyless indy-art mindset that seemed to dominate the entries and chosen designs for a while there. This new shirt struck me as particularly cool, especially in light of this recent KFR post.
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This cool little spy pen (just like they use in A Man Called U.N.C.L.E.!) supposedly let you see through walls and somehow also doubled as a mini telescope. I never understood exactly how this sort of x-ray spec technology was supposed to work, but like any other kid I was always intrigued by it – [...]
From the venerable Murray Roach comes this classic ad that Marvel would likely prefer to never think of again. Y’see, kids, back in the day, comic book artists didn’t get their original art back. For years they were cool with it, since they didn’t see any intinsic value in the original pages, but Kirby kind [...]
