Seriously, I’m thinking about blowing up that Ernie Chan one and putting it up as a poster in the store.

So I found this diggin’ around through some boxes in the backroom, trying to track something else down:

…the 1980 Occult World of Dr. Strange calendar. Marvel put out several calendars in this format, with a nice piece of full-color art for each month, while the days for each month are filled with art, photos, gags, creator birthdays, and other bits of trivia and silliness:

These old Marvel calendars are great, and I spent a few minutes Tuesday morning whilst waiting for the UPS truck and the weekly funnybook delivery taking a few photos of some of this calendar’s details. For example, I think I laughed out loud at this particular entry from July 27th:

Oh, Jim, someday you will:

I don’t think I noticed the gag in this one ’til I scanned it and blew it up real big. That may be more an indictment of my eyesight than of the calendar’s print job:

As a California native, I wholeheartedly agree with the bow-laden centaur:

This, however, seemed unnecessarily mean-spirited:

And just think, as old as they were then, they’re about 36 years older now! Have some respect for the elderly, Marvel, geez.