Astral Dr. Strange

Get a job, hippie! Y’know, not for nuthin’, but Dr. Strange has the most comfortable looking costume in comics. He’s basically wearing pajamas AND his cape doubles as a blanket. If his sidekick was Harry the Pillow, we’d all be pledging allegiance to Dormammu right now. So, this week’s mod is one of them “lite [...]

Valkyrie & Aragorn

Based solely on those word balloons, I think I may have briefly dated Valkyrie back in the ’90s. “Don’t you dare change the channel, Murphy Brown is coming on!” Yeah, it didn’t work out. Anyway, my favorite part of this cover is how it’s a perfect snapshot of Marvel Universe crazy: sometimes a chick riding [...]

The Son of Satan

Satanism, the Antichrist, demonic imagery…you know the most shocking thing on this cover? A twenty-cent price tag. Nowadays you can’t even get a CrossGen back issue for that.* So yeah, the ’70s Marvel landscape was nuts. “Son of Satan…?” And in case his name was too subtle, that’s a giant silver pentagram on his chest. [...]

Hellcat

Bright yellow and blue. The color scheme of Hellcat‘s costume always struck me as odd–a yellow and blue cat?–but it wasn’t until I typed the above headline that it occurred to me that it may have been designed that way to avoid a potential legal headache with DC’s Catwoman. Or maybe the editor just liked [...]