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Thursday, January 24, 2008

The Tyrant Superman!

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Ripped from the pages of the Daily Planet comes the latest instalment of Three-Part Thursday! Superman #172, cov...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Ho-Hum, It's Conduit

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In the issue or two leading up to the first appearance of Kenny Braverman, aka "Conduit," we were assured that this guy was evi...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Befitting a Man of Steel!

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Here's the card for the "regular" STEEL figure, with accompanying caption describing John Irons' tumble into history. ...
Saturday, January 19, 2008

I Like the Old Ways (*sigh*)

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Here's another Kenner action figure card, for "Ultra Shield Superman." He's got a special armored suit. However, t...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I'm So Confused!

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Here we have "Ultra Heat Vision Superman." Wait a minute, I thought it was Ultra Boy who had Ultra Vision. What's th...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Supes in the Hood!

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They call him "Street Guardian Superman," but it's just an excuse by the girls who work at DC to see a Kryptonian in leather...
Monday, January 14, 2008

A Spirit That Befits a Man of Steel!

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Here's one of John Henry Irons's manifestations as an action figure. While I suppose the action figure and the "collector car...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Another Kenner Card

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Here we have "Solar Suit Superman," who likes to wear red plastic plumbing trees on his space helmet. Maybe he wore this in spa...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Kenner Action Figure Cards 1

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From 1995 we have cards from Kenner's series of action figures. These came out soon after Superman's death and return. As you can ...
Monday, January 07, 2008

A Super Dictionary. I Am Talking About a Book with Definitions

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This is the Super Dictionary from the 1970s. It uses silly art of DC characters for didactic definitions that always use the meaning ...
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Saturday, January 05, 2008

The Last Wonder Bread Card

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Saving the loveliest for last, here is the final card of the ones I collected (I think) from Wonder Bread. It's the cover of The ...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Another Wonder Bread Card

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This card, reproducing George Perez's art, is of course Perez's own rendition of Joe Shuster's cover for Superman #1 ba...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

The New Year from U.N.C.L.E.

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Well, I'm only four discs into the complete U.N.C.L.E. series set. Besides the show episodes, the set also came with two ...
Monday, December 31, 2007

It's a Wonder!

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Of course, in the 70+ plus years since Action #1, there have been many more promo cards than just the Superman Vitamins we saw last we...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Racing for Fun!

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The Flash 302, October 1981, also featured this centerfold spread of Jay Garrick, Wally West, and Barry Allen, three “generations” of Fl...
Friday, December 28, 2007

I’d Buy a Cup Cake from This Man!

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From The Flash 302, October 1981, comes this one-page ad for Hostess Cup Cakes. You get a big delight in every bite! You also get som...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Super Mousepad!

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Well, we got us this hyar mousepad with Superman and Clark Kent mishmashed together on it. Actually, it's a lenticular image whic...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

The Last of Lovecraft's Heads

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These are the last of John Holmes's covers for Ballantine's 1973 Lovecraft paperbacks. Ooh, pretty scary, kiddies! PS...
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Monday, December 24, 2007

Different Styles for Lovecraft Covers

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These three have a different look than the "weird head" covers. The one for The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

What the First Ballantine Printings Looked Like

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These two covers, by Gervasio Gallardo, are what Ballantine's original covers were like. These were the 1971 printings of stories a...
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Mark Alfred
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
I was born at a very early age, in a hospital to be near my mother. After appearing in productions of both GODSPELL and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in the 1970s, I found a wonderful wife and wrote many love songs to her, but not as many love songs as I write to God my Savior and Redeemer. We have three kids (one of each) -- wait for it -- blonde, brunette, and redhead.
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