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Here’s that picture of a Tekno Comix promotional flying disc you were asking...
Just popped up in a collection recently, to remind us of those happier times when Mr. Hero and Isaac Asimov’s I-Bots walked the earth. Here’s a pic from another Tekno Comix promo item I posted a while...
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So pretty much whenever I’m short on blogging time, I’ll just run a picture...
…not that I have a whole lot: Had a bunch of posters to put on the eBay, and while this one was just a little too beat up to put up for sale, I went ahead and photographed it anyway and kept the...
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Though I have to admit I’m curious as to how a rebooted Spawn comic might sell.
Now here’s a thing I’d totally forgotten about: the 8-page Marvel Spotlight giveaways from the mid-1990s. I mean, I completely forgot this was even a thing. I remember the various iterations of the...
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Taking a break from Bat-talk for a little Bat-talk.
So, going through boxes of ancient comic shop promo materials netted me this, a 1986 letter to retailers about the then-forthcoming Batman: The Dark Knight mini-series by Frank Miller: This letter had...
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There’s probably an issue -1 somewhere in these boxes.
Okay, so I knew I had this in my possession…I’m pretty sure I’ve posted a pic of it on this site at some point in the last nearly-fourteen years I’ve been blogging here. It’s the first issue of the...
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Here’s that picture of a Tekno Comix promotional flying disc you were asking...
Just popped up in a collection recently, to remind us of those happier times when Mr. Hero and Isaac Asimov’s I-Bots walked the earth. Here’s a pic from another Tekno Comix promo item I posted a while...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So pretty much whenever I’m short on blogging time, I’ll just run a picture...
…not that I have a whole lot: Had a bunch of posters to put on the eBay, and while this one was just a little too beat up to put up for sale, I went ahead and photographed it anyway and kept the...
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Though I have to admit I’m curious as to how a rebooted Spawn comic might sell.
Now here’s a thing I’d totally forgotten about: the 8-page Marvel Spotlight giveaways from the mid-1990s. I mean, I completely forgot this was even a thing. I remember the various iterations of the...
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Taking a break from Bat-talk for a little Bat-talk.
So, going through boxes of ancient comic shop promo materials netted me this, a 1986 letter to retailers about the then-forthcoming Batman: The Dark Knight mini-series by Frank Miller: This letter had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There’s probably an issue -1 somewhere in these boxes.
Okay, so I knew I had this in my possession…I’m pretty sure I’ve posted a pic of it on this site at some point in the last nearly-fourteen years I’ve been blogging here. It’s the first issue of the...
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I swear this isn’t just a commercial for my eBay store, but if you happened...
So here’s the thing: I’m still planning on an End of Civilization post, but I just haven’t had the time to start putting it together yet. I’ve barely even cracked open the new Previews…I have no idea...
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I wonder just how shocking that back design on the Badger shirt really was?
So I was digging through the endless boxes of old promo materials that my former boss gave me from the previous place of employment, when I came across this thingie: solicitation material from Capital...
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I never did buy that Swamp Thang parody comic…wonder who worked on that?
Now I’ve probably shown you this before, I think: …a promo piece from the early to mid-1980s featuring Dalgoda, a fine science fiction comic by Jan Strnad and Dennis Fujitake that deserves to be...
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“Leaps and bounds”— I see what you did there.
From Marvel Comics Retailer Spotlight #16 (August 1990), here is the hype for the Walt Simonson/Art Adams “New FF” run on Fantastic Four #347 through #350: In case you’ve forgotten, here’s what the...
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And now, my favorite comic book promo poster of all time.
Straight outta 1994, this promo poster made me laugh at the sheer chutzpah of it: …and I absolutely 100% do not mean that in a bad way. I admire the salesmanship at work here. “Hey, you know that...
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Extra pressure to be wild in your headlines when Atlantis is an actual, real...
So Customer Andrew gave me a copy of this Superman promo flyer from 1993, featuring supposed pages from the in-universe tabloid newspaper National Whisper on the front and back: …which then opens up...
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