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Thing Tuesday: The Thing on Coney Island by Steve Rude
Here’s a great Thing pin-up that I picked up on Steve Rude’s Facebook page. The Thing relaxing on a sunny day in Coney Island, but always thinking of those darn Yancy Streeters. Nuff Said!
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Thing Tuesdays: Six Shattering Pin-Ups of Ben Grimm by Moebius, Byrne,...
I have posted over 25 images of my favorite rocky hero, The Thing. Here are a few of them that are very special... The Thing poster by Moebius has always gathered a lot of attention here on my blog....
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FOOM: Artwork by Steranko, Kirby, Buscema, Colan, Starlin and more!
The Bronze Age Babies blog has a great series every Friday where they cover F.O.O.M., Marvel’s fan club from the 1970s. I thought I would share a few memories of my own. I signed up for this club...
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A Salute to Killraven by Don McGregor and P Craig Russell
I was a big fan of Don McGregor & P Craig Russell’s work on Killraven during the 1970s. It had a short but sweet run with some of the most lyrical stories ever done in Marvel’s history....
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Monster Monday: Morbius versus Blade!
I need a little something extra to get me going on this particular Monday. How about this snazzy 1974 cover to Fear #24? Morbius the Living Vampire versus Blade the Vampire Slayer! The cover,...
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Strange Sunday: Spider-Man Team-Up with Doctor Strange by Gabriel Hardman
Gabriel Hardman did this wonderful Spider-Man and Doctor Strange Team-Up illustration last year. You can find more of Hardman’s work on his deviantART page. Nuff Said!
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Silver Surfer Saturday: Marvel Fanfare 45 cover by John Buscema
Big Al Milgrom, the editor of Marvel Fanfare, was wise enough to commission this beautiful wraparound cover for a Silver Surfer story in issue #51, circa 1990. It features some Thor-ish goodness as...
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Art of John Buscema: Classic Marvel Heroes on this 1978 cover!
This cover appeared on The Art of John Buscema, a 1978 special that focused on Big John’s artwork. Classic Marvel fans will appreciate this cover, featuring Buscema’s renditions of Conan, the...
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Strange Sunday: Dr. Strange Wallpaper for the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle
I’ve been into e-readers the past few years. I started off with the Sony Reader 505 and last year upgraded to the new Sony Reader Touch Edition 650. One of the things I liked about this model was...
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Lo, There Shall Be An Ending!
A hard thing for me to announce to all you Titanic True Believers, but this is the end of the blog known as Giant-Size Marvel! After 300+ posts over the past three years, I have just run out of...
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Silver Surfer Saturday: Five Illustrations that Soar by Kirby, Buscema,...
Over the years I've posted over 25 Silver Surfer illustrations...here are five of my all time favorites. Jack Kirby, the co-creator of Norrin Radd, of course is the grand master of drawing this...
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Monster Monday: Six Macabre Covers by Adams, Ploog, Land, Kane and Brunner
In the past years on this blog, I've shown dozens of covers and illustrations from Marvel's Legion of Monsters during the 1970s. Here are a few of my favorites. Tomb of Dracula #1, cover by Neal Adams...
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Thing Tuesday: Doc Savage meets Ben Grimm
Here is a rip-roaring cover from 1976 by Ron Wilson and Joe Sinnott from Marvel Two-In-One #21. A great team-up between Doc Savage and The Thing, even though they never met in person—the story took...
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Astonishing Tales 25 and the Birth of Deathlok the Demolisher!
The cover blurb at the bottom of Astonishing Tales #25 called Deathlok: Perhaps the greatest creation yet in the Marvel Age of Comics, Phase Two! You could call Phase Two the entire era under the...
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Strange Sunday: Five Mystical Pin-Ups of Dr Strange by Colan, Brunner,...
I have posted over 20 images of the Dr. Strange over the years...here are five of my favorite illustrations. It seems like I am one of the few fans of Doc's superhero outfit that first appeared on this...
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Two Amazing Heroes covers by Todd McFarlane
It has been such a long time, I had even forgotten that Todd McFarlane ever drew mainstream Marvel characters! But he was all the rage in the late 1980s, and this cover for Amazing Heroes #170 shows...
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Thor Thursday: Walt Simonson Battle Armor from Marvel Fanfare #45
From the Marvel Fanfare #45 all pin up issue, here is Walt Simonson drawing Thor in his Battle Armor, which was used during Walt’s run on the series. Marvel Wikia describes this perfectly: Forged of...
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Thor Thursday: Walt Simonson pin-up with a little inspiration by Gene Colan
Here’s a pinup that Walt Simsonson worked on to raise money for a Gene Colan benefit last year, featuring Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk riding a crazy space bike. Thor and Hulk are done in Simonson’s...
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Marvel Fanfare 45 pinups by John Byrne, Michael Golden, Brent Anderson, and...
Marvel Fanfare #45 from 1988 was a special issue devoted to pinups. Editor Al Milgrom picked some notable artists to contribute this stellar issue. Michael Golden’s Captain America pinup here is a...
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Marvel Fanfare 45 pinups by Bob Layton, Marshall Rogers and Sandy Plunkett
You have probably seen this famous illustration of Iron Man in his Hall of Armor, drawn by the inimitable Bob Layton. But did you know that this image first appeared in Marvel Fanfare #45? It was...
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