Showing posts with label Marvel Comics Bronze Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marvel Comics Bronze Age. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Captain America #245 (May, 1980)


Ads:
  • Fun Factory Dept. (Various mail away gags).
  • Various mail aways.
  • Bubble Yum Wild Cherry Bubble Gum (Bubble gum).
  • Various mail aways.
  • Whoopers malted milk candy (Camp cook kit camping gear mail away).
  • Heroes World (Star Trek: The Motion Picture action figures and vehicle order form) (Art by students of the Joe Kubert School Of Art).
  • Marvel Super Heroes Prestomagix Dry Transfer Games (Marvel/General Mills)
  • 100 Pc. Toy Soldier Set

Monday, January 7, 2013

Comics That Seen Better Days #2

This copy of Marvel Tales #45 is a complete mess, the cover is ripped off completely and split in two and it has a "Aug. 17 1974" stamp on the cover and a "Property Of Joe MacEachern" stamp on the first page. There's also five additional staples put there by someone (My money's on Joe) to hold the cover together. Dear Joe, they did not hold. Five Staples...wow. Of course I will keep this baby because I don't like throwing out comics and it has great ads, and maybe someday I will meet Joe MacEachern and help him recapture his childhood by giving him back one of his comics.
Marvel Tales No. 45, September 1973.
Cover By John Romita, Sr.
Interior Art By John Romita, Sr., Don Heck & Mike Esposito.
This is a reprint of Amazing Spider-Man No. 62, July 1968.
The original cover from Amazing Spider-Man features a plain white background.
An additional background with bystanders was added for this reprint cover.
I have another question, Joe MacEachern, what does the 62 mean?
How can I possibly throw out a comic that has an ad with a caption like that?

Friday, January 4, 2013

Omega The Unknown #1 (Mar. 1976)

Cover Art By Jim Mooney & Joe Sinnott

Title: Omega The Unknown #1
Cover Art By: Jim Mooney & Joe Sinnott
Editor: Marv Wolfman
Genre: Superhero
Printing: First
Publishing Date: March, 1976
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Book Type: Standard Comic
Price: 0.25
Pages: 36 (Story has 18)

Story Title: Omega The Unknown
Main Characters: Omega (First Appearance), James-Michael Starling (First Appearance)
Writer: Steve Gerber
Penciller: Jim Mooney
Inker: Jim Mooney
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Petra Goldberg
Editor: Marv Wolfman

Notes: 
  • The name of the letters page in this issue is Omega Mail. 
  • Since this is the first issue, Creator Steve Gerber uses the letters page to talk about the creation of Omega.
Ads:
  • Johnson Smith Co. (Mail Order gags)
  • Various Mail Orders/Isokinetics Muscle Builder Mail Order (Split Page)
  • Super Values $1 Iron-On Vinyl Transfers (Mail Order)
  • Various Mail Orders
  • Slim Jim/Grit Publishing Co. (Split Page)
  • Reflections Of A Rock Super Hero (Spider-Man Rock Album!)
  • Customizing Center (Vehicle Customizing Training)/Karate Training (Split Page)
  • Crazy Magazine/Superman VS. Spider-Man Treasury (Marvel House Ads) (Split Page)
  • Joe Weider Muscle Building Courses (Ad features a young Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  • Various Mail Orders
  • Our Way Studios Mail Aways (Marvel-Hero Stick-Ons/Life-Size Hang-Ups) (Split Page)
  • Spider-Man And The Cupcake Caper (Hostess Cup Cakes)
  • 100 PC. Toy Soldier Set (Lucky Products Inc.) (Mail Away)
  • U.S. School Of Music (Correspondence Music Lessons)
  • La Salle Extension University (Education Correspondence)