Now that you mention it, he does kind of look like a PEZ dispenser.
Now here’s a thing I’ve not seen before:
This is copy of the Marvel Milestone reprint of the original Hulk #1, sealed in a polybag promoting the 1994 Incredible Hulk video game. Sealed inside the polybag is a smaller pack of…something, sealed within its own cellophane wrapper:
It appears to be a stack of three or four large-ish trading cards, or perhaps stickers, but it’s hard to say.
I’ve never seen this comic packaged like this before, but I wasn’t frequenting video game stores or even video game sections of toy and department stores, so it’s easy to believe that I missed it. What is odd is that I haven’t come across these in any collections in the ensuing 20+ years until this past week. But then again, I hadn’t seen one of these ’til this past week either, so there are still plenty of surprises out there for me.
Anyway, if any of you folks out there have bought and opened one of these wrapped Hulk comics, please let me know if those are trading cards or something else in that little package there. Thanks!
Commenter reaction to the Superman cover scan I posted yesterday was fairly unanimous in their negative responses to John Romita Jr.’s drawing. And…yeah, that’s not a great cover. Things look significantly better within the actual book, honest. I generally like JRJR’s art, though, as I believe I’ve stated on this site before, it’s a rarity for his art to be on a project I have any interest in reading. In fact, it’s been quite a while. On Superman he and Geoff Johns been doing fun work, bringing some life to a franchise that had been mostly ill-served by DC’s linewide revamping…though, as I’d said, Superman comics as a whole have been improving of late. We can probably stand to have one or two fewer Superman comics on the shelves, maybe, but what can you do.
They’re indeed trading cards. Marvel had a couple of series of “widescreen” cards and I specifically remember that exact card.
Now I want to read that special issue where the (at that time) big for Marvel product promotion pushing powerhouses (alteration, folks!) Puff Spiders Man & Woman, Hulk and Captain America do battle with the canny criminal uh… cuartet (alteration fail) of Enchantress, Wizard, Rhino and Paste Pot Pete.
THAT sounds like some good cheesy comic book fun right there.
Stupid phone autocorrect changed half of my words to gibberish (even more so than is my usual).
Here’s what it should have read:
Now I want to read that special issue where the (at that time) big four Marvel product promotion pushing powerhouses (alteration, folks!): both Spiders; Man & Woman, Hulk and Captain America do battle with the canny criminal uh… cuartet (alteration fail) of Enchantress, Wizard, Rhino and Paste Pot Pete.
THAT sounds like some good cheesy comic book fun right there.
A whisper is heard from stage left: *alliteration*
YES. THANK YOU, ye stage left whisperer. I blame my Swype and autocorrect.
Alliteration becomes alteration.
Letters are dropped or added.
I miss my old tangible keypad.
The digital one just isn’t the same.
:/
they ARE cards… stickers would have been cooler, though.
“JRJR”
I liked his DD and Iron Man work!
OK, this one’s for you Sanctum…
Now I want to read that special issue where the (at that time) big four Marvel product promotion pushing powerhouses (alliteration, folks!): both Spiders; Man & Woman, Hulk and Captain America and a fanatical devotion to the pope.
Yes, yes, I see, but I didn’t expect some kind of Spanish inquisition.
You can sell it to me and I’ll open it. Fuck the integrity of that bag! I’m so angry this morning.