Click the above image for a full-size widescreen wallpaper sized 1920×1200. This is scanned from a 1979 Marvel comics house ad for the series. The Marvel comic version of the Mattel toy line was short lived (20 issues) but was quite good with art by the legendary Herb Trimpe (also did the art here for the ad) and written by the great Doug Moench. It’s also one of the very first comics I remember collecting & reading as well as actually buying myself with my own money right off the rack. God I MISS those squeaky spinner-racks. (One of these days I’m gonna buy one off eBay or something if I can ever find a good deal on one.) I also love to point out that the Shogun Warriors were the “original” Giant Robots predating Gobots AND Transformers by at least 4.5 years.

Click the above image for a full-size widescreen wallpaper sized 1920×1200. I just scanned this from a 1988 Marvel comics house ad. Art is by John Buscema & Tom Palmer. This was the line-up for much of the late eighties: Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters), Sub-Mariner (Namor), Marrina, Dr. Druid, Black Knight (Dane Whitman) & Thor (Donald Blake).

Click the above image to load a 1920×1200 full size wallpaper image. This is my dog Luke captured beautifully by Kristan Robertson (my daughter). She was experimenting with her brand new DSLR. She should be commenting in here shortly to add the details on the camera model and lens info for you camera tech types.

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The cap image was scanned from a 1986 Marvel comics house ad for their subscription service. I’m fairly certain the art is by Buscema -probably Sal but possibly John. If you know for sure which is it is please let me know. The background flag image I found on Google Image Search and then heavily Photoshop filtered it.

The above image is a small version of a wallpaper I just made. The art is scanned from Uncanny X-Men #518 by Terry & Rachel Dodson. This panel shows Emma Frost as she appears in the mind of Scott Summers as he is battling slivers of the Void (evil alter-ego of the Sentry)for control of his psyche.

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I am considering making wallpaper posts a regular/semi-regular thing. I have several hundred I’ve made from my own scans & make new ones often. If it seems like there is enough interest I’ll start posting these. Most are sized 1920×1200. It’s pretty trivial to add a smaller 1680×1050 version if it seems needed. Please post/email me your thoughts on this. Let me know!

Lately I’ve been rocking Marvel’s new Dr. Voodoo series. I’m a sucker for all the old Marvel horror/supernatural characters. I just recently managed to complete my Werewolf By Night collection including the hard to find (and hard to afford) coveted first appearance in Marvel Spotlight #2! But I digress the subject here is Dr. Voodoo AKA Brother Voodoo as he was better known from his first appearances in the early ’70′s Strange Tales issues 169 & 170:

Brian Michael Bendis modernized the character somewhat recently in the pages of New Avengers. Jericho Drumm got promoted to Doctor Voodoo (oddly enough that is what Roy Thomas originally called the character when he brought the concept to Stan Lee but Stan said no -BROTHER VOODOO!). According to Bendis’s story Dr. Strange “fell from grace” and the Eye of Agammato had to choose a new Sorcerer Supreme. After a lot of flying around looking at possible candidates (including among others Dr. Doom and Daimon Hellstrom the Son of Satan) Jericho Drumm was chosen. So he got a cool amulet, scarlet cloak of levitation, a black body suit and a creepy staff with attached dangling shrunken heads to go along with the upgraded nomenclature. Speaking of the creepy staff -get this -the heads SCREAM crazy unpronounceable stuff at his opponents when he uses it’s dark mojo! Awesome!

Art by Jefte Palo from Doctor Voodoo #1.

Shortly after the events in the pages of New Avengers he got his own book. I’ve read the first 3 issues now and I’m really loving it. It’s creepy and dark but it does have that goofy old school Marvel fun to it that always sucks me right in. Unfortunately these odd ball decidedly NON-main stream comics tend to not make it very long and get canceled after 12 or 14 issues (see Blade’s last series). I really hope Dr. Voodoo Avenger of the Supernatural is the exception to this rule . So please do pick it up if you like great Marvel horror books.

I made this widescreen wallpaper from the cover of issue 2 (art by Marko Djurdjevic). Click the thumbnail below for a full-size 1920×1200 version. Or click here for a 1680×1050 version.

WOW! I finally got a chance to read the conclusion to Annihilation Conquest. The art above is from issue #6. This has been a great series and the art team of Tom Raney, Scott Hanna and Frank D’Armata was just flawless. Everything shimmered, glowed and crackled. With visuals like that one seems to HEAR the sounds of the various lasers & cosmic energy bolts. What a fun read. If you haven’t been picking up Marvel’s Nova & the Annihilation minis go get ‘em! And the new Guardians of the Galaxy is coming soon. Cosmic Marvel hasn’t been this good in years!

Click here for a 1.7 meg 1680×1050 widescreen wallpaper version of the above scan.