Stuff we like…

Fanboy Tees

80sTees

Visit the Future That Never Was

Siskel & Ebert review Back to the Future

The video ain’t high quality, but the . . . → Read More: Siskel & Ebert review Back to the Future

Buckaroo Banzai

Man, could you even get this movie made today? Below is the ad for it that ran in some 1984 Marvel titles — what a great logo design! Love it. And then below that, not the trailer, but the very creative . . . → Read More: Buckaroo Banzai

Delta Tenn

Delta Tenn #1, from 1987.

Believe it or not, pretty sure I bought this off the rack NOT at my comic shop, but at a local stationary store! Shows you how during the Black & White indie boom of the mid ’80s, even stuff like this found its way into “civilian” stores.

What caught my eye about . . . → Read More: Delta Tenn

Aliens (Color Series) House Ad, 1989

Dark Horse ad for their second Aliens mini-series, which we talked about on a previous blog…

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Comic Images Promotional Poster, May 1990

New Jersey based Comics Images did a ton of licensed Marvel merch in the late ’80s into the ’90s — t-shirts, card sets, stickers, etc.

Below is a promo poster sent to comic shops in 1990, grabbed off of an eBay listing…

…and here’s an excerpt from the auction description:

These early 1990′s posters generally showed various . . . → Read More: Comic Images Promotional Poster, May 1990

Neverending Story Trailer

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Duran Duran – “A View to a Kill”

Theme song to the 1985 Bond movie…

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Fantasy Film Report, October 1989

Okay, 1989. Five years or so before the internet age really came in, about seven years before Harry Knowles started AintItCoolNews.com, and about fifteen to twenty years before social media was in all of our lives…

…how the hell did we hear news about comic book movie / TV adaptations, back then? Well, . . . → Read More: Fantasy Film Report, October 1989