Saturday, February 20, 2016

Monday, February 15, 2016

Would this get your vote for one of the best THOR covers and if not could you please name the 10 that are better? (They'd make a great post.)

Glen Orbik learned his craft from the legendary movie poster artist, Fred Fixler. Not only has he done comic covers (for Marvel AND DC) he has done movie posters and book covers (including covers for Stephen King and Ray Bradbury) He also shares his gift with others through teaching.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

IN THE SHOPS TODAY


DORBZ MARVEL THOR VINYL FIGURE $9
From Funko. The Dorbz conquest of the Marvel Universe continues with this series of stylized 3" vinyl figures of The Hulk, Magneto, Mystique, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man and Thor! 

Monday, January 11, 2016

THOR helps Marvel dominate 2014 at the Comic Shops

       According to the Comic Distribution Monopoly the specialty market's top publisher for 2014 was Marvel Comics by both Dollar Market Share and Unit Market Share. Marvel Comics had nine of the year's top ten comics, with the all four issues of the DEATH OF WOLVERINE series among the top sellers, along with Thor #1. 
     DC Entertainment’s top comic, BATMAN #32 charted at #14.  

1 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 $5.99
2 WALKING DEAD #132 $2.99
3 ROCKET RACCOON #1 $3.99
4 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 $4.99
5 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #4 $4.99
6 THOR #1 $3.99

Monday, November 2, 2015

88 YEARS AGO TODAY Steve Ditko was born.

52 years ago this rare Kirby/Ditko cover collaboration went on sale.
Three years earlier Ditko did the art for a five page Charlton Comics Thor story.