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In honor of Batman’s 80’s birthday and 1000th issue of Detective Comics, here’s a drawing of Adam West with water soluble graphite and a touch or watercolor. #Batman #adamwest #detectivecomics1000

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Love it!!! Need a pin or patch of this.

NASA Star Trek Badge by emodistcreates

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my god it’s full of tweets

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This happened today, so much fun I want to do it again.

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I’ve always loved these corner boxes, they’re such gems.

Corner Box Art - A Classic Marvel Tradition

It is quite usual to find fans of comic book cover art but finding fans of a small, yet important part of it is a rarity

Marvel Comics in the silver-age started the concept of corner boxes on its covers which would show figureheads of the characters starring in a particular comic title

The corner box tradition carried on for decades or till the early 90s until they got replaced by logos of characters to mark a change in approach until they were abandoned for good. However, what remains noticeable about the corner boxes is not just the art but a cult-following they enjoy. For examples on instagram, cornerboxart is an account that enjoys more than a thousand followers. This account is dedicated to promoting and preserving Marvel’s corner box art through its posts . Similarly, there are many accounts on pinterest that share and celebrate the classic, yet now abandoned, tradition. Even CBR did an appreciation piece on them back in 2016  

Like the comic book covers, these memorable works of art are now recognized as part of the pop-art culture/craze. ThinkGeek.com’s home & office decor section is addressing the demand of corner box decor items and with the passage of time, the following is on the rise as more and more geeks, comic book converts are realizing the importance of the greatest era in comics 

In the end, whoever made this “mother of all” corner box art (below) has done a great service to the community as well as paid the best tribute to all the artists who gave Classic Marvel fans wonderful memories 

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I grew up with these guys as my horror movies.

Universal Monsters - art by Hugh Fleming

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Concept Art for the Star Trek III 

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Don Marquez.

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You should always ask yourself this

This is really awesome.

Birthday present for my awesome friend gneeworks, whom is one of the raddest people I know. This is her life motto, and I’ve always thought it was awesome. Thank you Jeannie for always looking out for me, because I’m pretty sure if it weren’t for you I would not be where I am right now! 

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When I look at this, all I see is the joker.

the man who laughs

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Wow, just beautiful

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Why does the Hulk need a van, and why is he shorter than Spider-Man?

Hulk Van and Mego Figures (1979)

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OMG this is some mad max shit right here.

mother fucker unlimited

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This is an amazing clip. I have never seen this movie, now I’m going to have to fine it.

“Mark of the Vampire” (1935).

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Love when stuff like this surfaces.

Publicity Photos of Shatner in ST:TOS Season 2

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Awesomely huge buildings that dominate the landscape, this looks like it influenced blade runner

Hugh Ferris, who in “The Metropolis of Tomorrow,” 1930, envisioned titanic buildings that dwarfed the human scale.

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This is really an amazing piece of trivia. Now I want to go watch Unification to check it out.

Study model for a possible USS Enterprise redesign — created by artists Ken Adam and Ralph McQuarrie for the abandoned film Star Trek: Planet of the Titans during the late 1970s. Created as one of a few different possible Enterprise designs for the eventually-scrapped film project, this model — now labeled “B-24-CLN” after it was reused in TNG’s “Unification I” in the Qualor II ship yard