I’ve been re-reading some of the comics from my younger days lately thanks to the miracle of comic scans. The fact that anything I want to read is at my fingertips is quite amazing. More amazing are the discoveries of advertisements within the pages. Some I can recall vividly, and others seem new to me. This GI Joe ad was
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Just a few days ago I covered issue 7 of the GI Joe digest series. I waxed nostalgic about picking up old stories I had missed in the 80s, and I doubted finding something other than Archie in this format nowadays was a wish. Well, it turns out that Marvel is going back to supermarkets with a Spider-Man digest, which
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If I had still been into GI Joe in 1988, and knew that a 3D comic existed featuring Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow together back-to-back, I would have dropped my most recent X-Men comic faster than you could say Claremont and Silvestri. Alas I had no idea the three-dimensional adventures of the post-1986 Joes had continued beyond issue number one,
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I miss the old digest format. Before the days of trade paperback collections, and especially before I’d discovered a local comic shop, these bite-sized compendiums of back issues were the only way I could read adventures I had missed thanks to spotty distribution at 7-11 and QuikTrip newsstands. This cover was definitely have sold me back in the day. Originally
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The cover of the UK’s Action Force Monthly features Falcon in a wet suit. How can we tell that’s Falcon? Well, his name is handily printed on the leg of his suit. Convenient. I don’t mean to sound snarky, in fact this sort of thing is necessary in a comic, especially when a character’s identifying features are obscured. The best
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Ouch! I don’t care what famous leaders’ DNA soup you’re made from, that’s gotta hurt! What better day than this to take a look at Serpentor’s unceremonious end in Marvel issue 76’s Battle of Springfield. After all, he shared DNA with Julius Caesar. Every time I read the issue, it’s still effective. Arrow to the eye–THAKK!
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Hey, it’s the Big Game today here in the US–not that I really care, since my hometown team, in typical fashion, whizzed it down their leg in their first playoff game. Anyway, I came across the following comic when perusing auctions a while back and was amazed to see a familiar name in the issue of NFL Super Pro. And
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Much more interesting a battle than pirate vs. ninja.
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In comics, a talented artist can elevate the material on which they’re working. Such is the case with this cover from the first comic series based on the GI Joe Extreme toy line. A quick aside–the series didn’t have the word extreme in its title (though it appears twice in the tagline). Did Hasbro already have a feeling for the
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