This 1973 Marvel advertisement was designed to appeal to retailers across the country. Not the direct market - that did not exist yet. This...

I was touched by the sad tale of Bill Mantlo's life after his car accident, which resulted in head trauma and his life in a Queens reha...

My DCBS order deadline came and went, and for the first time in a couple of years, I ordered nothing.  I debated for a while about whether ...

I stopped the addiction of collecting action figures and statues long ago, but I did hang onto what I had collected during the past 20 year...

My headline says it all.  Previously, my fav comic book film was Spider-Man 2.  Going into this year, I had anticipated liking Green Lanter...

Looking back at my art scans, I found these Gene Colan commissions inked by the great Bob McLeod .  Four of Marvel’s heroes that Colan made ...

I have been hoarding these scans of various Gene Colan commissions—most of them were done in 2000 or 2001.  I’d like to share them now to ce...

Sad to hear of Gene Colan’s passing yesterday.  As many fans like myself are already well aware, Colan was one of the giants of the comic ...

Just dug the far-out new groovy mutant movie, X-Men First Class!  On one hand, I loved it, mainly because of the 1960s era setting.  The s...

Neal Adams is really gearing up for a lot of new Marvel work.  I’ve totally lost track of Batman: Odyssey after reading the first two issues...

Kenneth Branagh’s Thor movie premieres next week, but the Thor marketing push began several weeks earlier.  I started noticing all kinds o...

Here is a nifty poster created by artist Eric Tan in 2007 .  I love the way he designed this poster, a throwback to old movie posters.  The...

As a kid, my biggest fantasy was to grow up and work in the Marvel Bullpen.  Probably my imagination made the Marvel offices even bigger an...

Scott Edelman , a science fiction/fantasy editor and writer that I follow on Twitter , has released an interview that he conducted with Ste...

Here is a great little pinup I found on Scott Williams Deviant Art page , a John Byrne pinup that he inked, featuring Jean Grey in two evil...

A fellow F.O.O.M.er ( Friend Of Old Marvel ) and friend of this blog, Toby Hopper, found these delicious scans of Jim Cheung’s artwork f...

From time to time I like to display cover progressions, from sketch to final cover, and it’s always great when I find stuff from the Silver...

I just saw a scan for this cover to Rawhide Kid #140, circa 1977, a really great Western style shootout with the Kid scrambling for cover a...

I’m always a nut whenever I get a new device with a nice display that has a screensaver function.  I bought the Sony Reader 650 last summer...