Posted by: WebHobbit | June 1, 2013

Top 100 Comicbook Covers – #88

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088-Spider-Man and the Black Cat-03-Terry Dodson

Number 88:

Spider-Man & the Black Cat: the Evil that Men Do #3 (Marvel – 2002)

Cover art by Terry Dodson
Inked by Rachel Dodson

Another great Terry & Rachel Dodson masterpiece comes in at number 88. I love the logo and typography used on this limited series almost as much as the art itself. It has a classy sort of old Hollywood style to it. This is of course almost pure cheese-cake but it’s irresistible. The stark blacks and odd contrasting of the reds and blue of Spider-Man’s suit give this an almost animation cell look. Odd but effective.

Check back in tomorrow for number #87 in the count-down of my Top 100 favorite covers.

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Posted by: WebHobbit | May 31, 2013

Marvel Subscription Ads

Remember comic-book subscriptions? Remember when it was a big deal that they FINALLY started mailing them FLAT? If you do you are in a word – OLD (or getting there) my friend! I’m 45 and I remember seeing the subscription ads circa 1978 (I was about 10 then). Some of them bragged about how they are now mailed FLAT! I thought: how the heck did they do it before??? The more I collected it sure didn’t take long before I got hold of a back-issue with the dread subscription-crease! Then I knew -HORROR OF HORRORS they FOLDED THEM! Nearly as shocking to my young mind back then as was the ending to Soylent Green!

Anyway I’m reading through every issue of the original Defenders series now and I thought I would post a few Ads for the heck of it.

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sub-AD-hulk

Click the “thumbnail” below to load a 1536 × 1619 pixel version:

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And now for some John Byrne goodness from 1984 (click for 1536 × 1524 version):

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Posted by: WebHobbit | May 31, 2013

Top 100 Comicbook Covers – #89

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089-Ultimate Spider-Man-36-Mark Bagley

Number 89:

Ultimate Spider-Man #36 (Marvel – 2003)

Cover art by Mark Bagley

Mark Bagley Ultimate Spider-Man yet again! Love his take on Ultimate Venom.

Stop by tomorrow night for number #88 in the count-down of my Top 100 favorite covers.

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