The artist Gil Kane who was already famous from his work at Marvel’s rival DC comics started doing the art to Spider-man during the early seventies. He was responsible for some of Spidey’s landmark issues such as when Spider-man’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy was killed by the Green Goblin. Gil had a style that was unmistakable, [...]
I had blogged earlier about the Third Eye store display posters, so lets take a closer look at what was very small on one of those displays. It is the Spider-man poster up close. Made for black light, and a typical webslinging shot from 1971. Looks like the artist could be Mooney, or Romita Sr., [...]
The second store display for the Thirdeye Marvel Posters declaring “The Marvel Super-heroes are Here!” has all their posters depicted on it. This poster is also super rare, and highly sought after. I already posted the first store display poster drawn by John Romita Sr. here!
The early 1970s, and blacklight posters go hand in hand. The Marvel Super-heroes poster you see below was used as a display to sell other Marvel Thirdeye posters. This poster was drawn by John Romita Sr. and features a ton of Marvel’s greatest, including Captain Marvel in his early green outfit. These are hard to [...]
Its the old saying “Most times the box is even cooler than the toy”, well we all know the fate of the box after we got the toy out. It ended up in the trash along with the original store display that inspired us kids to get the item in the first place. There was [...]
