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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Dr. Strange by Kevin Nowlan
2008-06-18 09:15:44
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Yeah, yeah, I didn't get to blog yesterday. It was a rainy, steamy, BUSY day here in New York and just didn't get to it.
BUT, I did enlist the skills of Marvel.com graphics guru--and photographer supreme--Judith Stephens to help me get better photos of the posters around the office.
Now that we're past most of the Hulk posters, it's time to mix it up. And I'm going back to an early request for this fine Dr. Strange poster by the always awesome Kevin Nowlan. We actually have several of these bad boys hanging throughout the office. There's one directly outside the door of my office, one near the bullpen and at least one somewhere on the floor above mine. The love for this piece cannot be contained in one mere poster!
Yeah, totes awesome!
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Hulk by Todd McFarlane
2008-06-13 16:18:45
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Happy Hulk day everybody! We have Hulk comin' out of our ears these days...and with good reason! The new Hulk movie rocks, we have some cool toys, I've happily smashed the crap outta NYC in the Hulk video game and our comics are super! Also, posters!
As previously stated, I love me some late '80s/early '90s McFarlane, even though I wasn't reading his run with Peter David on THE INCREDIBLE HULK when the issues first came out. But since checking them out in TPB...I'm a believer.
Okay, I have one more Hulk poster in the queue, but I may hold off on posting it for a while. Have a great weekend and go see "The Incredible Hulk"!
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Hulk by... I dunno!
2008-06-12 16:56:14
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I was going to post a sweet Ariel Olivetti poster tonight, but I did a quick search through the photos I had and saw I had enough Hulk posters to fill the week (and then some). So for the rest of the week, it's all Hulk, all the time.
This bad boy is an uncredited Hulk poster. The only detail I can gleam from it, other than the pure old school goodness is that it's from 1978. The copyright says so!
Anybody know who the artist is?
UPDATE: Terrific Tom Brevoort has dropped the knowledge bomb on me, informing me that the poster is by none other than John Romita Sr! Thanks, Tom!
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Hulk by Bob Larkin
2008-06-12 16:55:56
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Here's another Hulk poster!
And ya know, I was 92.3% sure this was a Joe Jusko piece when I first looked at the photo. Being super-busy (no, not lazy...) and a bit of a dummy, I didn't look at the signature at the bottom of the poster initially and didn't go back to the poster itself when I chose this for the blog. So, while I was 92.3% sure it was a Jusko painting, that 7.7% bit was too much to ignore.
Thankfully, the man who delivered the answer to yesterday's Hulk poster mystery, Executive Editor Tom Brevoort, also schooled me regarding the artist behind this poster. Suffice to say, I was wrong and the totally awesome image we have before us was crafted by Mr. Bob Larkin, the ridiculously talented '70s cover artist. His images graced many a Marvel magazine back in the day, including a few issues of HULK.
Huzzah for learning!
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Hulk by Mike Deodato
2008-06-12 16:54:18
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I just spent 15 minutes walking around the both floors at the Marvel NYC office looking for a pair of Hulk posters that I needed to re-shoot. One will be shown on Monday, the other is the piece you see at left.
And ya know what? This poster was down the hallway from my office, right outside Axel Alonso's office. I shoulda seen it right away! And we have so many duplicate posters around the office, it's crazy! But I digress...
I was pretty sure this was an awesome INCREDIBLE HULK cover from the post-Bruce Jones era of Hulk, but I guess not! I didn't see it in a quick look through our digital comics site and so I'm guessing it's a badass promo piece that got turned into a poster. So broody!
Tomorrow's poster is another Hulk gem and one of my favorites, in honor of the opening of "The Incredible Hulk!"
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Namor by Scott Hampton
2008-06-09 22:45:08
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Today's poster choice comes via special request by Marvel.com Assistant Editor Ben Morse!
In Ben's words, "It's hard not to be enthralled by the intoxicating masculinity of Namor, the Sub-Mariner, in fully-painted form." Well said!
I too love this poster (cool painted images = bliss to Agent M), but I have a rather love-hate relationship with ol' fish-guts. He's totally hardcore and can smash the crap outta pretty much anything, yet he doesn't always get his due.
Also, I remember loving Jae Lee's rendition of Namor back in the early '90s. Wasn't Subby head of a large corporation? Dude rules the seas, can go toe-to-toe with Hulk and has (had?) a company to rival Osborn Corp., Roxxon and the rest. I vote Namor in 2008!
Oh, and I had to take this poster off the wall to photograph it because I was getting some hideous glare no matter how I tried to shoot it. Fingers crossed that I don't get in trouble for messin' with the digs!
some stuff edited to fix Agent M's mistakes. tsk tsk
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Spider-Man (and the black costume) by Todd McFarlane
2008-06-06 16:44:44
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Somebody requested a Spidey poster and I'm deliverin'!
I wasn't a gigantic Spider-Man fan as a kid, but I definitely latched onto McFarlane's Spidey 'round the time the adjectiveless SPIDER-MAN book launched. I didn't buy a trillion copies like the rest of the world, but that iconic cover ensnared me all the same.
That said, I think I originally picked up the first year's worth of SPIDER-MAN comics kind of sporadically, even with Wolverine and Wendigo gettin' all up in Spidey's grill for a few issues. For me, it was all about the Morbius arc and both the Ghost Rider and X-Force crossovers. Those were my jamz!
But right, back to the poster. It's awesome. Crazy McFarlaney webs, the black costume, etc. You love it. I love it. Next!
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Gambit & Rogue by Dennis Calero
2008-06-05 16:49:01
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I didn't get to blog yesterday because I was totally swamped with a billion things. Not that today's been much easier, but I didn't want to miss another day, so I'm back in the game!
And what do I do? I pick a poster featuring one of the few Marvel characters I feel no love for: Gambit. I know lotsa people love Gambit, but he's just not my cup of tea. Rogue? She's cool.
What really grabbed me about this poster--other than it being really sweet--was that I just couldn't put my finger on the artist at first. There's some Sienkiewicz, some Hildebrandt and some other bits that threw me off the case...until I read the signature. Dennis Calero!! Nice guy, great artist, kudos all around!
Afterthought: I picked ANOTHER X-Men image. What's up with that?! Expect some Hulk, Dr. Strange, Daredevil and more in the coming days.
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: Wolverine by Sam Keith
2008-06-03 17:10:16
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Here's round three of my Marvel office artwork blog series. I'm on a roll!
While yes, I did dish out the mutant goodness yesterday with the Art Adams X-Men poster, I couldn't avoid posting this bad boy today. Wolverine by Sam Keith. 'Nuff said.
Okay, I'll say a little more about it. As a kid I was a HUGE fan of MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS. A bi-weekly anthology series, MCP featured plenty of good character spotlights by a variety of cool creators, but it also served as a de facto second Wolverine series. He was in every damn issue! And a slew of those stories were drawn by Sam Keith.
Keith's style isn't for everyone, but his wild poses, crazy proportions and brilliant storytelling abilities just kick my tuckus. Even here, in this poster, Wolverin looks like he's gonna leap out and gore you with his pig-stickers. Awesome!
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Posters Around the Marvel Office: X-Men by Art Adams
2008-06-02 14:51:48
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Let's keep this theme of posters around the Marvel office going with some Art Adams X-Men awesomeness.
I'm a sucker for hyper-detaled artists (Frank Quietly, Geoff Darrow, etc.) and man, Art Adams' work just butters my bread. I'm really happy to see him drawing for us again, be it his cover work for AVENGERS CLASSIC (R.I.P.) or his recent KING-SIZE HULK story (Wendigos EVERYWHEREEE).
This poster's in a high-traffic (I guess they're all high-traffic here) corner not too far from my office and I love it. I'm gonna guess and say it's from the mid to late '80s and is a pretty spectacular snapshot of the X-Men (and X-Factor, right...?) from that era. While mulleted Longshot is pretty fantastic, I'd say my favorite part of the poster is mohawked Storm. What say you?
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