Smallville's 

Supergirl AND Lois Lane Were At...

The Grand Slam XVI: The Sci-Fi Summit at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel which ran last weekend, from April 11th - 13th, 2008 in Southern California! 

For those of you that missed the convention, the above right is a photo from the program that both Laura (Supergirl) Vandervoort and Erica (Lois Lane) Durance attended!

Our archived blog posts on Laura Vandervoort are usually in the Top 100 most viewed archived posts, so we like to post her past, present and future appearances when possible!

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Who Was Projected To Be 'Hot' This Year...

In Marveldom?

Promotional items and long shelf life items usually indicate what characters are projected to be big in the upcoming months, or that the publisher knows is now in the mainstream public's knowledge and more likely to become an impulse item to purchase...

The top right photo is of the 2008 Official Marvel Calendar that was prepared before the end of 2007, which featured:

Wolverine (with a 2009 Film), Hulk (2008 Film), Dr Doom (2007 Film), Captain America (who recently died), Elektra, Silver Surfer (2007 Film), Iron Man (2008 Film), The Thing (2007 Film), Human Torch (2007 Film), Daredevil, Storm (marriage to the Black Panther), and of course Spider-Man!

There would have to be at least a couple characters on the calendar that either fans, or parents or friends of fan would know and think would make a good gift!

Marvel couldn't go wrong in publishing a calendar with all of those 'heavyweights'!

Thus I am suggesting that those were the characters that were projected to be 'Hot' this year!

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Michael (and Tina)

Forbidden Kingdom

With Jackie Chan AND Jet Li!   

Today, April 18th is the release date for Jackie Chan's movie!

Also headlining with Jackie is Jet Li!

The film is about an American teen who travels back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors who are on a quest to free the imprisoned 'Monkey King'!

Say What???!!!

We have watched 'The Myth', one of Jackie's recent films and this sounds like a similar time travel pic.

However it is Jackie and with Jet Li, it's gotta be at least watchable... if not good!

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Jim Mooney...

More Than Just THE Supergirl Artist!

Jim Mooney 1919-2008

My earlier blog post was just a brief one, as I had just found out that Jim had passed while we were back East for a funeral, and had missed seeing it.

Jim Mooney had basically been a DC comic book artist during my early years of reading comics (late 1950's - early 1960's).

During that time DC had an unofficail 'policy' of not publishing the writers or artists credits on their published comic pages.

So for years myself and countless others would not always know who drew what until we found out their name somewhere and figured out their style. It was hard figuring out DC artists as DC wanted a 'house style' of art. (Indeed, when Jack Kirby came over in the early 1970's DC had his Superman's faces redrawn to fit the 'house style'!)

Jim drew the Supergirl feature from approx 1959 - 1968 for National / DC among other strips.

When Jim left DC Comics in 1968, he went back to work for Stan Lee who had him 'inking' the pencils on the Amazing Spider-Man comic book as well as other Marvel Comics, including The Avengers, The Fantastic Four and other inking jobs at first. I enjoyed his inking style.  

Jim later collaborated with Steve Gerber and penciled the Man-Thing and Omega The Unknown comics that Steve wrote.

I didn't see Jim at the last couple of SDCCs as that Convention takes up the whole two wings of the San Diego Convention Center!

I remember him more like he was in the late 1990's as shown at the top right photo.

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'THE' Supergirl's Artist Passes....

Jim Mooney 1919-2008

Reading this past Sunday's Newspaper Comic Strips I saw one that reminded me of a Great Comic Book Artist.

It was the Funky Winkerbean comic strip which showed Supergirl landing on earth for the first time.

That made me think of Jim Mooney who is 'THE' comic book artist most associated with drawing her during the Silver Age of Comics!

I had met Jim at a few Comic Cons during the years, and always smiled at his signature where he would draw a 'moon' into his signature!

Unfortunately it appeared that he passed away March 30th, 2008 when Tina and I were back East for her Aunt's funeral.

Did not know about Jim's passing until today...

This is why I publish blog posts about who I/we meet at comic cons, because I like to 'recognize' them in our blog so that other comics readers / fans / collectors or just mainstream folk can appreciate their work while they are still living!

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