I AM IRON MAN...

Dum dum da da dum....        the Black Sabbath song of the same name from 1970 runs thru my mind when looking at the photo to the right.

Yes, it's one of the first photos of the now in production 'Iron Man' movie with  Robert Downey Jr (as Iron Man), Gwyneth Paltrow (as Pepper Potts), and Terrence Howard (as War Machine),  in the Jon Favreau-directed film.

This is the first film in which Marvel Entertainment provides the financing through its arrangement with Merrill Lynch, so this needs to be a blockbuster film!  It looked like a good movie script at the SDCC, but the casting so far is a little strange in my opinion!  And now it looks 'back to its' roots' for inspiration!  That's the first thing of this movie that I personally like so far !!!

Gywneth starred in 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow', which I really enjoyed... so I am willing to give her a chance at this role in Iron Man. Just as I am more willing to give this movie a chance, with it going back to the original armor to start out with... (maybe in flashback??). 

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Iron Man above in his cast iron first suit, and below with it painted with gold color to stop scarring little kids!  Seriously !

Blade the Vampire Hunter...

 Movie Trilogy & Comic books

Blade was a 1998 theatrical film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff. Blade was adopted from the Blade comic book series. The film was directed by Stephen Norringtan and written by David Gayer. Wesley Snipes played the title role of Blode, a half-man, half-vampire superhero vampire hunter who becames the protector of humans against the vampires. 

The film spawned a sequel, Blade II, which was released in 2002. The last film of the Trilogy, Blade: Trinity, was released in December 2004.

For those interested in the Blade comic book movies based on comic books, we have Blade appearances in our eBay Featured Store and more Blade comics in our eBay Pro Store.

No, That's Not A Command...

It Was a ComicBook!

And a TV Show... and a Theatrical Movie.... and a Toy Line....

Michael Selling TV Show Comic Books at the San Diego Comic-Con in 1973 !

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THE FIRST ONE...

This Is What Started Me As A Collector....

... of comic books.... Journey Into Mystery #72 from Atlas Comics. (Atlas evolved into what we know as Marvel Comics today, you know, Spider-Man, X-Men etc.)

Before I was given this comic book, all I had been reading were 'funnybooks' with an occasional National (Superman) comic book thrown in.

Journey Into Mystery #72 was cover dated September 1961, which would have made me nine years old.  The title had started with issue #1 in June of 1952, which would have been a month older than I was.  

What made this one issue stand out enough to make me start collecting comic books???

It was the artwork that did it for me. It was when I first truly realized that it was real people that drew these comics, in this case they were Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, who signed their work 'Kirby/Ayers'. 

Before this comic, all that I was aware of were the 'cookie cutter' artwork in funnybooks of Chilly Willy, Woody Woodpecker, Mickey Mouse, etc.  The art from one artist to another was almost indistinguishable, and no one signed their names to the artwork...   However the artwork of this Journey Into Mystery was so far different from what I was used to, that I immediately looked for more by the Kirby/Ayers team and kept the book in better shape!

I didn't have too long to wait... as Kirby drew Fantastic Four #1 for the November 1961 cover date, which I picked up after seeing Fantastic Four #3 from March 1962 where the FF wore costumes for the first time!

It was unusual that this comic was given to me as it was a 'monster' comic, which probably would have been thought to give me 'nightmares', but I am glad that it was given to me and that it started my lifelong collecting bug of collecting comics!!!

I was fortunate to meet Jack Kirby at the SDCC before he passed away, and to have met Dick Ayers at Wonder-Con and the SDCC a few times through the years.  They were definitely the great guys I thought them to be when I was a kid!!  Thanks Jack & Dick for the memories !!

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Never Fear.....

Captain Nice Is Here !

With all the Comic Book Movies that are being released this year, they remind me that when I was a kid, super-heroes were already on TV in the mid 1960's due to the 'Batmania' craze!

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 The above comic book cover was from the Gold Key Comic Book, 'Captain Nice #1, a 'one-shot' publication from November 1967!

Michael Selling TV Show Comic Books at the  San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) in 1973!