This ad for one of my all-time favorite series, from @bralinator, reminded me of a post I did on my blog last year. I've been going through a nostalgia kick and had read the first 6 issues of Marv Wolfman's & Jerry Ordway's ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN. The post-Crisis DC was my big introduction to the company's wider universe, with all the #1 issues coming out, and judging by the house ads I found in those six issues of ADVENTURES, they were hitting on all cylinders, as far as I'm concerned.
A 1975 DC house ad for a comic that was never published, The Legend of King Arthur and His Knights of the Roundtable, written by Gerry Conway, layouts by Joe Orlando, and finishes by the fantastic Nestor Redondo. Originally it was planned to be published in four “Super-Size” 25¢ issues (standard comic book dimensions, but an unspecified number of pages—most likely 80 pages), but that fell through. The book was then announced as part of their treasury edition line of books, but shortly thereafter that line was cancelled as well, and the book—of which many pages of original art still exist—was never published.
I don't know, but yesterday I felt the need to revisit this. So, I requested it through ILL. We'll see if it holds up (or if I should have just gone with the anniversary issue, Batman #400).
This Aurora model kit came up in a discussion I had at NYCC, and I thought it was appropriate for the season. I'd never heard of this one, but it's freaking fantastic. The ad comes from an issue of Creepy. “Harmless fun” for the whole family!
Not an ad. This image is from the 1981 SDCC program guide. Back then, artists who weren’t going to make it out to the show would often do a piece of art and send it in their stead. These days most of the artwork in the program guide is submitted by amateurs or guys still trying to break in, but in the early years of the con the program guides were filled with a real Who’s Who of talent.
House ad for the Silver Surfer graphic novel from 1988. Hardcover, by Stan Lee & John Buscema, featuring Galactus, Mephisto, and the Surfer. Every page was a single image. All pages were splash pages, even before the Image guys blew up! Fantastic!
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-chris
House ad for Eclipse Comics, from Destroyer Duck #4
-chris
Fun...Fun?!
Comics aren't meant to be fun, they're meant to confuse & frighten!
:wink:
I don't know, but yesterday I felt the need to revisit this. So, I requested it through ILL. We'll see if it holds up (or if I should have just gone with the anniversary issue, Batman #400).
-chris
13 bucks gets you all 4 books! What a steal!
House ad for the Silver Surfer graphic novel from 1988. Hardcover, by Stan Lee & John Buscema, featuring Galactus, Mephisto, and the Surfer. Every page was a single image. All pages were splash pages, even before the Image guys blew up! Fantastic!