Marvel Super-Heroes on Scooters

Clipped from Spider-Man Collector:  In 1967 Marx produced  the Spider-Man, Thor, and Captain America scooter toys.

Inspired Art

 Dork Note: Of course the one to get is - Thor on the pink scooter!

Rob's Room: Iron Man Three by Paolo Rivera

Limited edition cast & crew poster

and here's his Captain America poster, too...

Matt's Mantle: Sci-Fi Movie Posters by Dani Blazquez

 

 

Rob's Room: Dork Funnies!

Spotted in the sky & on HeroChan!

What every kid wants...

...a Smokey the Bear Action Figure Playset from 1972!

 

Dork Note: Damn! Before Star Wars came out - kids got some seriously stupid shit for Christmas! I wonder if some dork has this complete set?

Rob's Room: Speedrun - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

AWESOME & FUN!!!  
Did anyone else doodle similarly in school...?

Rob's Room: Black Light Marvel Posters

I want a room devoted to these groovy black light posters & a lava lamp!  Mind blown!
I think much of the artwork is by Gene Colan... anyone?
For more cool images, hop on over to the Cool & Collected Blog!

Guillermo Del Toro and HBO want to create Naoki Urasawa's Monster!

Clipped from JoBlo: Deadline has an exclusive about a new project that the director has signed on to. The news is that Del Toro and HBO are partnering up to bring Naoki Urasawa's Manga series Monster to the small screen. Guillermo Del Toro and Steve Thompson (Dr. Who, Sherlock) will work on the story together and Del Toro wants to direct the pilot. The Manga has been adapted before as an animated series that ran in Japan from 2004 to 2005.

Dork Note: This is how I feel about the project! 

The Pit: The G.I.Joe Command Center

Clipped from Wikipedia: The Pit is the fictional headquarters of the specialist G.I. Joe team from the 1980s Marvel comic book created by Larry Hama. It is a multi-level underground base complete with training facilities, living quarters, a briefing room, and heavy equipment storage.

Pit 1: The original Pit was secretly located underneath the Chaplains Assistant School's motor pool at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, New York. Most of the characters in the school, with the exception of members of the G.I. Joe team, had no idea of the Pit's existence.

According to a blueprint provided in the comic book (issue #1 of the series as published by Marvel Comics), the original incarnation of the base is five levels deep. The first level houses heavy vehicles and weapons, with the second level containing electronic communications and briefing rooms. The training area is situated upon the third level, complete with swimming pool, whilst the fourth level contains an armory and living quarters. The fifth level houses computers and generators and is where classified documents are located.
 
Pit II: The second version of the Pit is shown within the comic books to be a repair and improvement of the original. According to a blueprint provided in the comic book (G.I. Joe #22, Marvel series), it is rebuilt to six stories in depth, depicted as having been designed to be more defensible and impregnable. Among the improvements shown to the reader, are the addition of a helicopter launching pad near to the motor pool; improved nuclear blast protection; an ICBM missile silo; an earth boring machine located at the lowest level, to facilitate an escape; a small nuclear power plant; an additional level with rest and relaxation facilities; larger living quarters to accommodate increasing number of Joes; and detention facility to hold prisoners. Latrines are also shown, a feature missing in the original Pit blueprint. The renovation is represented as having taken about six months to complete within the time-frame of the fictional universe.

The second Pit is not to last long however with Cobra learning the exact location of the Joes' headquarters, infiltrating and attacking the Pit from within in G.I. Joe #53. Most of the Joes are not in the PIT at the time and are involved in the battle above. General Hollingsworth and General Hawk, escape moments before the entire PIT is destroyed. This seemingly buries Cobra Commander and Destro. 

After the attack, the Joes no longer have a permanent headquarters, and operate as a nomad unit. This status, however, is not to last long either.

Pit III: is located within the fictional universe as being in a desert in Utah, with its exact location not revealed to the reader. No blueprint was provided to readers.

The third Pit is shown to be deactivated along with the G.I. Joe team in #155
 
Pit IV: was built in the Devil's Due G.I. Joe comic series and is located in a desert in Arizona close to real-life military base Fort Huachuca.

The location of this Pit was discovered through Cobra operative Wraith's spying. Pit IV was destroyed by G.I. Joe rather than let it fall to Cobra hands in #39 of the Devil's Due series.

Rob's Room: Bugs vs. Homer Copycat by Erik Wiese

Bugs Bunny vs. Homer Simpson vs. Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
Can you spot the celebrities watching the greatest fights of all time?
(Homage artwork by Erik Wiese; Original artwork by Neal Adams & Dick Giordano)

bonus images:

Cool Artist: Joshua Covey

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Giant-Man/Ant-Man's Helmets

Dude builds himself a Batcave!

Rob's Room: The Secret Lives of Predators & Aliens

Theirs is a forbidden love! (...or else a wacky sitcom...)
Check out Pedro T Predator's deviantart page for many more pics!