Marvel Illustrated was a special swimsuit issue that Marvel put out annually in the early 90’s. In addition to the expected cheesecake shots, they also included a surprising amount of beefcake… I found some shots at SuperUnderwearPerverts awhile back and published them then - but wanted to find the issues to scan myself - and I did! So here you go. Enjoy some of the hottest boys of Marvel in their beachwear!
I’m not sure exactly how many annual issues there were. I managed to find copies of Marvel Illustrated volume 1 No’s 1 (1991), 2 (1992) and 4 (1994). So if you have volume 1 no. 3 (1993) or any later years let me know! I’d love scans.
Some of these are so great I may even take the time to scan and share some of the fabulous females for any fangrrrls or straight/bi etc out there who may lurk. Hope you like the imagery!
From the sounds of the solicit for March’s SUPERMAN #686 and Action Comics #875 its sounds like there is still a lot to come in the New Krypton saga. But from the covers and solicits for these 2 issues we now know a few things… After New Krypton, Earth finds itself without its greatest protector, but Metropolis has some new or reintroduced heoes. It had already been revealed that Nightwing and Flamebird (who from her Action #872 reaction to Nightwing’s hovering may not be a Kryptonian? - see image below) would be featured in Action - so that wasn’t a big reveal. Nor is the Guardian as the head of Metropolis’ Science Police… BUT Mon-el outside the Phantom Zone as a protector of Metropolis! That’s new. Should we call him Valor?
Superman: World of Krypton #1
Following the events of the “New Krypton” crossover, the Man of Steel has had to embrace his past to ensure humanity’s future. And while a devastating armed conflict with Earth may have been averted, keeping the peace will be Superman’s greatest challenge yet.
Hot new writer Andrew Kreisberg (BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL) and fan-favorite artist Pete Woods (ACTION COMICS, SUPERMAN: UP, UP AND AWAY!) lead Superman through a world of interstellar treachery and deadly machinations where the lives of two races hang in the balance!
Colossus continues his quest to ease the pain of losing Kitty Pryde– and it brings him face-to-face with some evil from the Old Country, run amok on the streets of San Francisco. Elsewhere, the shockwaves caused by Simon Trask’s press conference continue to ripple, making anti-mutant hysteria hit a fever pitch. And as Angel and Beast continue to assemble the Fringe Science Team in the far north of Canada, Storm demands an audience with Emma Frost, queen to queen…
Lets hope this is better than “What if Tony Stark had died?” Which I found to be a bit lame. It didn’t address the Secret Invasion fallout at all. It ended before SI! Total cop out. This has all the ingredients for a good What If? - Thanos, Death, Warlock, The Infinity Gauntlet, Silver Surfer, Doc Strange and Spiderman - all this plus Mephisto and Death herself.
There is a plethora of yaoi (or gei comi) themed slash art images of DC and Marvel mainstream comic book characters out there on the internet. Recent webtangent tours through my bounteous blogroll have brought down a more than a handful of heroes in situations that you won’t see in their comic books.
I listed artists (and websites when available) in the image caption for each illustration, so be sure to click on them all to get the details. Websites I found the images on are listed at the end of the post. Enjoy!
If you know of an official webspace for any of the artists PLEASE leave a comment with the URL and I will add it to the “via” credit and trackbacks.
And Wiccan and Hulkling are so popular there are MANY fan art galleries on the www dedicated to them. I’ll be scouring the net and looking for the “cream of the crop”just for you. Sometine in the future… maybe to coincide with an actual project involving them? I can dream can’t I?
Songbird is in T R O U B L E! Norman Osborn a.k.a. The Green Goblin is making his move and goody two shoes (by CURENT Thunderbolt standards anyway) Melissa Gold is standing right in his way. Two bad for her Normie doesn’t fight fair…
It’s Bullseye & Venom unleashed – and the T-Bolts will never be the same! All-out war erupts in Thunderbolts Mountain, as Songbird fights for her life against the team’s most psychotic and bloodthirsty members — and this time, they’re taking no prisoners!
Old scores are settled and long-standing enmities explode into violence as Norman Osborn clears the deck to make way for his all-new, all-different Thunderbolts! And it ain’t over ’til the Songbird sings in part two of “Burning Down the House” by Andy Diggle (Losers) and Roberto De La Torre (Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.)!
Charles Xavier confronts his brooding brutish half brother, the Juggernaut. He’d been tamed for awhile - even acting as a member of the X-Men and befriending a young fishfaced Mutant named Sammy, only to lose it a bit when Banshee’s cousin Black Tom killed the kid. He sort of fell off the X-radar for awhile after that - dimensional accident or something. but it looks like he’s back and he’s bad.
The League is a superhero noir co-written and directed by Kyle Higgins and Alec Siegel with the aid of Windy City Pictures and the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. This Thesis Project for Chapman University was mentored by writer/director Tom Mankiewicz (Superman, Diamonds are Forever, Dragnet).
Promotional posters by video game senior character artist Eoin Colgan followed by the official synopsis.
With the 1946 formation of “The League of Heroes” in Chicago, the country is introduced to the first ever Superhero Labor Union. Founded by The Grey Raven, his kid sidekick Sparrow, and the amazing Blue Blaze, The League of Heroes was a beacon of hope against evil and tyranny in Chicago. Now twenty years later, as The League is about to expand nationally, an old adversary makes a murderous comeback. Drawn by the rampage, the former sidekick Sparrow returns to the city–and The League–for the first time in years.
MySpaceComicBooks had a couple of pages from the upcoming Secret Warriors series (in addition to the ones that were published in Dark Reign #1 which I’ve also included).
Secret Invasion is over.
One man knows that in this new world - this darker now - the ideals he once served are broken relics of a greater generation… they are no more.
He knows his government can no longer be trusted, nor can any country or corporation. And no longer are heroes or vigilantes willing to do what is necessary - to do what it takes to make things right.
He knows this.
So he is moving all his pieces into place. He is assembling the players, and he is fully aware of the stakes… He knows what it will cost and he alone is willing to pay it.
Even a die hard Metrosexual wouldn’t adventure in that unless it was Halloween or he was auditioning for a Rufskin modeling gig. Even Northstar would think it was too gay a costume. Not that I’m complaining - it suits him.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the forces for order/good in Marvel Universe (including the Avengers) are now being run by the Green Fricking Goblin. Not good. Since his first act of power is to call Doc Doom, Namor, Loki, the Hood and the White Queen together at Avenger Tower to let them know what they can get away with under his rule, we can assume that isn’t going to be business as usual for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
Where is Don LaFontaine when you need him? What? Oh Really? Oh that’s too bad, my condolences. But surely there’s someone better than whoever did that.
According to ComicsContinuum, Hasbro’s Marvel Legends: Nemesis Build-a-Figure Wave, is apparently due Wal-Mart stores this month - YAY!!!! Finally a Tigra to complete my Avengers display! Now if I could only get them to release that classic John Byrne era Storm (that they cruelly teased us with before giving us AoA Sunfire instead) to finish off my Marvel Legends X-Men. If anyone sees an extra Tigra - let me know, as there are no Wal-marts in the San Francisco city limits so I have to resort to ebay toy scalpers.
In addition to the 6-piece build-a-figure Nemesis (1 part per figure - but you don’t have to buy the varients too if you don’t want to - unlike previous non Hasbro ML series), the wave includes Astonishing X-Men Beast, Black Bolt, First Appearance Daredevil, Daredevil, Nova, Tigra, Punisher and Camouflage Punisher.
With the 50 State Initiative exposed as a Skrull Plot and Tony Stark’s S.H.I.E.L.D. out in place of Normon Osborne’s H.A.M.M.E.R. (my eternal gratitude to whoever tells me what the acronym means), what is to happen to the superhuman trainees and instructors? What’s next? Is anyone keeping an eye on that Thor Clone? and Who is Mutant Zero anyway? All these questions and more answered in “The Initiative Disassembled”. Read all about it at Newsarama’s interview with “former Initiative co-writer, and soon to be full-time writer, Christos Gage.”
CBR has put up a first look at Incognito #1, the new Super-Villain comic from the creators of Criminal and Sleeper (Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips). It’s the story of a villain called Overkill and answers the loaded psychological question “what happens to a bad person when they are forced to do good things?”
What if you were an ex-super villain hiding out in Witness Protection… but all you could think about were the days when the rules didn’t apply to you? Could you stand the toil of an average life after years of leaving destruction in your wake? And what if you couldn’t stand it? What would you do then?
Wizard Universe has a great interview with both creators… read it here.
And continuing Criminal’s single issue tradition, each issue of Incognito has more pages of story content, as well as articles on pulp and noir and behind the scenes looks!
Artwork looked better last issue. I wish this title could manage some kind of consistency - art style’s been all over the place. Teen Titans is looking much better lately - lets hope this title can follow their example. They should call someone like Mike McKone - he’s my second favorite artist to darw the Teen Titans - behind George Perez of course.
With Jericho loose, there’s a traitor in the Titans’ midst, and the entire Tower is under lockdown until the team can discover which member could betray them. The problem is, there’s no real way to investigate, since the traitor is now a sleeper agent!
Notice the last cryptic image - it is a teaser for a new title that follows X-Infernus and reads “From The Flames of X-Infernus, A Team Is Reunited!” - who do the silhouettes look like to you? The 2 figures at upper left look like Magma and Wolfsbane to me… what do you think? With Magik back could the New Mutants be far behind?
I do so love knowing there are gay pornstars out there who love comics! Here is rising Raging Stallion star RJ Danvers giving the final speech for his oral communication (no comments now people - don’t be a mindslut) course. His randomly assigned topic was “Introduce Batman as the Newest Crime Fighter in NYC.” Talk about luck - A friend of his told him “the Comic Book Gods were looking out for him!”
If you are or know an adult film actor who gets their geek on occasionally (comics, Star Wars, Star Trek, LoTR, BtVS or any other subject with which one could become a wee bit obsessed), pleas say hello!!!
He seems a little nervous - which is adorable, but hurt his delivery a bit. Not that I could do better - public speaking in front of an audience was the bane of my existence in school. I hope he did well as it is obvious from the content of the speech that he put a lot of work and research into it (and I mean OTHER than reading back-issues of Detective Comics).
Good Job RJ! Congrats on finishing the class. I noticed you blogged on it a few times.
With the revelation that the prize in question is a “Get Out of Hell Free” card possible created by Neron (the DCU’s head demon) himself our (anti) heroes find themselves the target every villain at large as well as at each others throats. Can they pull it together long enough so we can find out who is the mystery blonde that they are meeting in Vegas? Any Guesses?
I happened across the animated comic book movie parodies of privatenukem on youtube today - lucky you! Funny stuff. Included are a heroic parody of Clerks (Captain America and Daredevil are working the mini-mart and The Silver Surfer and Galactus are Jay and Silent Bob) and new endings for Superman 1 (not the recent one - classic oldschool Christopher Reeve) and Spiderman 3. Check out his YouTube page for more hysterics.
