Marvel breaks into the classroom in 1975. That year McGraw-Hill Films released a Spider-man Reading Motivation Kit only to school systems across the US. The kit included 1 poster, 6 filmstrips, 6 sound cassettes, 24 story cards, 7 comic-book readers, and a teacher’s guide ; in box, 43 x 29 x 8 cm. The episodes [...]
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 [...]
Strange coincidence? I think not. Seems these 2 posters have Spidey’s pose in common, but the villians were swapped out. Sentinels just aren’t part of Spider-man’s common rogues gallery in the late 60s, so it looks as though John Romita Sr. was asked to redraw it for the Marvelmania set of posters. Besides he was [...]
