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Apparently, Marvel made a swimsuit issue this summer. I only just read it, and it's fucking dogshit. Actually abysmal. I'm going to storytime ALL of the old Swimsuit issues just to show you punks how a swimsuit issue should be done.
I won't include any of the ads or other in-between fluff, because the pin-ups alone are going to take me several hours to do, but those are my favorite parts. If you want to read them, go find a copy of Marvel Illustrated and the following Swimsuit Specials online.
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>>154753273
You think storm has white pubes too? Fuck I wish I could see.
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>>154753280
Her eyebrows are black, so toss a coin.
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I didn't skip any pages, I just messed up on the naming here because MJ had a double-page spread.
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That's it for Marvel Illustrated. From here on out, everything is from an actual swimsuit special.
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Had to take a piss. Now that I've pissed and am no longer pissed, it's time to continue.
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Bump if you're reading. I can't do it myself for some reason.
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>>154753972
sex with clea
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>>154753680
I whacked off so much to this pic back when I was 12
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>>154754008
Didn't we all
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>>154753573
This one too.
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>>154754039
This art style seems counter productive to a sexy pinup.
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>>154754119
Yeah, it looks traced. Like all those dogshit 2000s interiors. Thankfully no other pin-up here uses that style
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>>154754121
What a fucking slut aunt may is, showing off her ankles like that.
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Third issue falls off hard. Even the Jusko cover looks like a small prelim.
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>>154754245
Yeah, it's not that great. I'm posting it anyways. It's still better than the shit we have to deal with nowadays.

Besides, that's when Marvel as a whole had a sharp decline in quality. You can't see it yet, but I had to add little disclaimers next to certain characters' names in the later issues because they were being depicted as some short-lived 90s redesign instead of their more classical counterparts.

Doctor Strange and Namorita are the worst offenders, they don't even use their proper names due to bullshit from their books.
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>>154754077
This was the one that revved my engine.
>>154754198
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Also, did you know Purple Man had a daughter? I didn't, but here's her in a swimsuit.

Would.
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>>154754324
Looks like Cindy Crawford.
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>>154753262
Thank you Anon!
Yeah this year's summer special sucked all they did was complain about AI art.
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>>154754348
It's so annoying how every hack writer thinks they're being clever by bashing it. Or is stupid enough to feel the need to fit in by bashing it. It's like how every other villain was a Trump analog for a while. I don't like the subject matter much myself, but the bashing gets so annoying that you start hating the haters too.
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>>154754367
I don't even think about Trump, I'm so sick of people talking about him. Plus the woke scolding struggle sessions.
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>>154754462
And by “pencil” he means his wiener.
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>>154754471
Good old Pip
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>>154753336
How does Cable look so zesty while ogling a woman?
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>>154754486
The future is gay
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>>154754198
Why is Betsy (formerly Kwannon) such a slut?
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>>154754078
The New Warriors before they killed a bunch of kids. Also always liked the style of Richard Rider in the 90's.
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>>154754611
So far even with the balloon tits every pin up looks pretty tame. Like even this one that has that Tom of Finland vibes it is prudish looking.
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Here's where the disclaimers start. Most of them are cut off. Mouse over the file name to read them.

>>154754652
Same
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>>154754510
She’s so yellow. Was she Asian back then?
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>>154754772
No, the colorists were just horrendous. Almost every character around then seemed to swap races indiscriminately.
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>>154754764
No homo butt something looks off with his package.
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>>154754785
His dick almost reaches his knee. Dr. Strange is 6' 1", so that thing has to be almost a foot long.
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The ads were kinda fun and soulful tho...you're missing out...
>>154753283
Geez. Jim Lee's stuff looks like Lara Croft but this one really looks like that type of woman.
>>154753348
Goddamn Diamondback looks nice.
>>154753401
Kek. This image always looks like some He-Man fun with Loki looking like a moustsche twirling Skeletor villain back there.
>>154753494
Yeah um...Rivals, if you don't deliver this outfit then you're fucking missing out big time. The web snood is sexy as hell and is a kino MJ look.
>>154753544
Holy Marlo booba.
>>154754151
Thanos seems like a chill guy. Would play some hoops with him and Warlock.
>>154754198
I be jamming my psykey so fucking hard into her I gotta get another one and a bit of newspaper under her in order to get it back. They call me the locksmith.
>>154754208
HOLY FUCK, JANNIES AIIIIEEEEE
CENSOR THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW
THERE ARE UNDERAGEB& EYES PRESENT!!!!!!!
>>154754582
Man. Storm's cat eyes. Always a great distinguishing feature of hers.
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>>154754926
I wanted to do the ads, too, but there are over a hundred of these pin-ups and I'm not paying for a pass. This is already taking several hours, so it's just the swimsuits this time.

Agreed on the web snood, that is MJ's best pin-up ever. Can't be topped.
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>>154754764
>>154754819
man with a ruler coming through
Can anyone who’s good with numbers solve this mystery?
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>>154754992
Please don't post images during a storytime thread, I'm already cutting it close with this one
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>>154755090
This feels like a real step down from the other Psylocke images.
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>>154755109
Most of the repeats in the newer ones do. Guess they were rushed or something.
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Last issue. Still better than this summer's.
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>>154754950
>ads
No problem. I can find some and post them after you're done. Maybe not all.
>web snood
Yep. It should be mandatory fashion to wear under the mask for all spider-women. Or just MJ and Mayday when she grows her hair out.
>>154755071
Good Emma.
>>154755137
Based Wonderman, chilling and relaxing in his own AU.
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This is the only Venom pin-up in any of these volumes. Very funny given how many people seem to be attracted to him.
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>>154755178
That would be appreciated, thank you. Should be done in 20-30 minutes if I don't need another break.
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Maybe I'll do some letters after I'm done, too. Those were funny.

Any objections? I'll go after ad guy if there's space.
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>>154755179
Monsterfuckers were not a known quantity. They would get looked at weirdly in the same vein as furries. But perhaps less so, dunno how She-Venom was received at the time. Haven't read up to the 80's yet to see if any women wrote any letters about wanting to fuck Eddie or Venom.
But yeah anybody who doesn't get the appeal of a man or woman (whatever you're into) being clad in skintight goo that can morph your body or into any shape or clothing while having a cute or scary face of fangs has got to be sexually impotent.
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>>154755163
I know it's not the best She-Hulk picture of the bunch, but I always loved it. She-Hulk in a fighting game level from the 90s.
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Considered giving this one a disclaimer too, but the text already does it and everyone knows who Ben is. Everyone in this thread, anyways.

>>154755246
Yeah, it's the second part I was surprised by. Skintight shapeshifting goo on a hot man. How did he only get one pin-up.
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Doc Strange has a normal pecker in this pin-up. Either Doc Stevens had a magically-enhanced penis that Doc Strange does not, or the penciler for the last swimsuit issue just fucked up the sizing and "accidentally" made a wizard from the Village the most hung man on Marvel Earth.
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>>154755163
It shows off the musculature well and the artist is pretty good. The anatomy of some of these others is a bit too exaggerated for my tastes but it is quite nostalgic.
Reminds me specifically of whoever did the art for the mortal kombat manual and comics.
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>>154755330
Makes sense. I think Mortal Kombat had some swimsuit specials too, but I don't know if the same guy worked on them.
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>>154755145
Are you going to post this summer’s? You trash talked it enough I’m curious.
Wait, when did they bring back swimsuit issues? Are they for the modern audience, now?
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>>154755428
Nobody deserves to be subjected to that trash. I'm not posting it.

>Are they for the modern audience, now?
The mythical "modern audience," yeah. The entire stupid thing is just the tamest pin-ups imaginable combined with a bunch of short stories trying way too hard to praise those shitty pin-ups. I think "respectfully looking" was included somewhere in there as legitimate dialogue, if you want an idea of what I'm talking about. Some really really bad art all-around, not even the cheesiest gradients in this last issue are as bad.

Whole thing felt half-finished at best, like some sort of obligation just because Rivals is popular now.
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Last Psylocke for today boys. Say goodbye.
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>>154755502
sex with clea
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>>154755410
Kek. Cap's face and the context. Looks like Charles Atlas. Yeah bitch I'm a little tired of nazis let's go over to the pacific theater and get some gash.
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>>154755518
Did not know many people liked Clea. Or are you the same guy from before?
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>>154755541
Getting gash isn't the only thing those two'll be doing by the end of the evening
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>>154755421
Damn...it's bad to fuck crazy. But damn...
>>154755488
Johnny looks pissed. And jacked.
>>154755544
Nta, and I haven't mentioned Clea before in this thread but from my casual knowledge of Strange, she gets plenty of great art in the 70's, and some great cheesecake art generally. Also I think they might be one of Marvel's healthier couples like Rogue and Gambit.
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>>154755572
"One who buggers a fire burns his penis." - wise man from ancient rome. Don't stick your dick in Typhoid, anon.

>Nta, and I haven't mentioned Clea before in this thread but from my casual knowledge of Strange, she gets plenty of great art in the 70's, and some great cheesecake art generally. Also I think they might be one of Marvel's healthier couples like Rogue and Gambit.
Wouldn't being a healthier couple hurt her chances? already taken, after all
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>>154755558
Wasn't Northstar already known to be gay by this time?
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Aaaand done. That's all folks.

Will stick around for 15-20 minutes, see if ad guy pops up. If he doesn't, I'll post some letters.

>>154755610
Yes, I think between issues 3 and 4 he came out. Don't quote me on it. Not an expert on gay men
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>>154755621
*2 and 3, not 3 and 4. The text for his issue 3 pin-up reads gay to me.
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>>154755597
>hurt your chances
Yeah I mean they have had time undoubtedly where they were separated but I mean like if hasn't been much of a sore point for Marvel to fret over.
>>154755607
Doc is such a bro. Everytime I see him outside of his initial stint as a villain, he seems like such a good hang, kinda like Beast and Wonderman. Surprised they haven't had a trio book of those 3.
>>154755579
This Quesada art looks fucking cursed. It's like Quesadilla just blew a load all over him and Namor's expression is one of absolute horror and wrath. Even the writer captioning this is confused at what Quesada meant by this.
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>>154755669
For any anons who haven't seen thesw fully, they also have pages where they explain more of the conceit for what location all the pin-ups take place in, as also evidenced by the subtitle each issue has where they are all on the Blue Side of the Moon or on Madripoor.
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>>154755669
Based adbro starting with one of the best.

>>154755657
I meant her being taken might make her less attractive.

Why did I even ask. Sue Richards is being lusted over by Rivals kids as we speak
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>>154755687
The first issue actually has articles as well as art that is more like an actual magazine like a snapshots of the heroes going around town or hanging at a concert.
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Was T-Mary that popular back then? I'm surprised there's so few Elektra pin-ups
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>>154755702
That is, all to say, Marvel had some worldbuilding chops back then whether for seriousness or for comedy like these ads.
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>>154755710
There was also a special issue called Marvel 1989 year in review that also has more of this type of material. It's pretty fucking cool.
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>>154755702
I loved those. I wish the newer swimsuit issues had them too. The ads were nice, at least.

>>154755724
Year in Review kept up until halfway through the 90s, I think. Also yeah, was really cool. Had more ads. I haven't reread it in a while though.

>>154755709
You'd be surprised by what was big back then. Nightmare has a pin-up here >>154755220 because he was stupid popular at the time. That girl he's with appears in his mini-series and almost nowhere else, she has 6 appearances total.
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>>154755742
Nightmare was popular...in the 90's? Why? I mean I like Nightmare and weird Ditko characters just like anybody else but I thought he would be obscure and not known about or thought of as hokey?
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>>154755709
Not sure. But Electra got more here anyway, right? So I don't think that's too crazy. DD was big in general so more waifus, more representation.
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>>154755753
I have no idea and can't remember why, I just remember he got a lot of love. Lots of art and, as you saw, a swimsuit shot. Maybe had to do with the slow rise of goth and Gaiman's Sandman, I don't know. Plummeted in popularity around the 2000s, too. Very weird. He's definitely a C-lister nowadays.
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>>154755770
Just noticed the file name.
>vintage ads
>90s
Hold me.
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Holy fuck we were spoiled back then!
We can't reach 1/28th this greatness now.
Thanks Quesada!
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>>154755769
That makes sense. Ditko in general was well represented by many artists across many periods. But yeah emo/goth at that time latching onto Nightmare is apt.
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>>154755783
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>>154755780
Sorry I stole these from Reddit and Batcave. But think of it as me stealing from Reddit rather than promoting Reddit.
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>>154755789
Devious Hulk trollface.
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>>154755797
R.I.P.
Peter David.
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Ninja Betsy, I miss you so much.
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>>154755817
Uh oh. Doom...that word...it carries new meaning nowadays....
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>>154755822
Bet he uses it to keep his Doombots in line when he's particularly upset
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>>154755830
Fuck image was for ants. Oh well.
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>>154755830
Version not for ants
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>>154755846
This one is cursed. But probably has history behind it. It's a parody of levi print ads. And I think Liefeld's anatomy was made fun of a this point and Stan himself made the joke during his comic book greats program asking how these characters got dressed so that probably is what inspired this.
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>>154755797
Is that Big Bertha in the bottom right?
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>>154755847
Thanks.
>>154755870
Yep I think so.
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>>154755870
I don't know?
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>>154755889
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>>154755870
yeah, big fatty herself. When was the last time we even saw the GLA? Think they were forgotten sometime around ANAD.
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>>154755908
She had a solo series 10 years ago that tanked.
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>>154755898
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>>154755922
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>>154755919
Did they try to make her "body-positive" or sumthin?
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>>154755926
>>154755898
I didn't realize but yeah Punisher just put out an ad in the 616 or an AU of it that he'll fucking kill if you drink and drive.
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>>154755927
If I recall correctly when Slott wrote her, he still treated her as a joke in the middle of the 00's and had a whole page joke about her bulimic barf in a toilet being gross or something. Then maybe later they weren't as harsh and brushed it aside.
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>>154755927
Yes, She became a plus size model and swore off her skinny form.
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>>154755935
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>>154755954
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>>154755947
Slott real talent is bringing out the absolute worst in these characters.
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>>154755954
>>154755958
Kino Mignola.
Possibly even...Kinola.
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>>154755967
is there any other kind of Mignola?

Will start posting the letters in five or so minutes if that's all the ads you wanna post. There aren't that many letters.
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Alrighty. Here's the first letter column, from the first swimsuit special. Special 2 didn't have any letters, but 3 and 4 do. Will post those too.
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>>154756027
Yeah you can start. I can't find any more good images online. Like pic rel. Can't find better quality.
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This one also has a partly-covered shot of Adam Warlock(?) all wet.
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>>154756091
Oh and here's my last image.
Apparently one of the designers, at least this ad says so.
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And this is the last one, from special 4. It has that infamous Thor comment they made into trunks for this year's issue. It's funny, but that pin-up in the new swimsuit special made it seem uncool to like.

Reading the end, seems like there was supposed to be a special 5 and onwards? Don't know why else they would ask for letters if they weren't making another issue. Bankruptcy probably killed it.

>>154756091
Well, I just wrapped up so I guess we're both done now.

If you want good-quality images of the old ads and stuff, just visit some online piracy site and grab a copy of the original comics. Marvel Illustrated, Swimsuit, and Year-In-Review are where most of them came from I think. Marvel Fanfare also has pin-ups, but they're covered up and there are only 2-3 per issue (except for Fanfare #45, that one's all pin-ups). No ads in Fanfare, no articles either.
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>>154756091
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>>154753761
Not that different from her usual getup. Although I think her breasts might be smaller than her usual.
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BROS! HAVE I GOT THE ISSUES FOR YOU
IT'S THE MARVEL ANNUAL AND QUARTERLY REPORTS!
FILLED WITH THRILLING FINANCIAL DATA AND PROJECTIONS!
Oh and a 6 page story by the watcher in one of them.
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>>154756175
90's artists mogging modern writers and freelancers by making a financial report back up more interesting to look at then their stories.
Every fucking facet of the company was packed to the brim with soul.
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>>154756175
>>154756192
I thought you were fucking joking, but they did one of these every year throughout the entire 90s. Why did they ever stop?? And how do I read these stupid things?? I need to enshrine them as role models to follow for any time I need to make something boring.
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>>154756217
To make something not boring, you mean?
Yeah I just heard about them recently.
Pretty cool.
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>>154756269
Yes, I need them as examples for how to make boring things less boring. So, to make something not boring.

They are pretty cool. They're also $200 per issue according to most auction sites. And online piracy only nets me the 1991-1995 issues. Where are the rest? Do you know?
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>>154754911
You weren't kidding about the colorists.
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>>154756292
Nope sorry. You know now more than me but I found a video of a guy flipping through it. Some neat art of bar charts being made into skyscrapers for Spdiey to swing from and ones for Wolverine to slash. Yeah I just realized at some point those numbers have gotta crater.
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>>154756319
I found what you were talking about! It's in the 1991 annual.

There's a whole two-page spread for the history of Marvel comics that precedes this. Love and care put into every single part of this. It's a fucking financial report!
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I'm sure we'd all be a bit more enthusiastic about balance sheets if all of them had She-Hulk encouraging us in their top-left corners.
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>>154756319
Huh, didn't realize but the 91 report was the first ever appearance of Spider-Man 2099. Even before 365 and some preview issue. I did know Sales to Astonish was the first cover appearance but not this one. And that's why it's the most expensive one.
Anyway, guess this thread is now just a variety of obscure Marvel facts, cool soulful stuff, and obscure comics.
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>>154756378
Sure, why not.

LOOK AT THIS COVER. It's a financial report!!
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Storytiming the comic immediately following it, fuck it. This is hilarious.
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The Triumph and Torment sequel we never knew we needed.
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This art is so good that it makes the script even funnier
This feels like an edit, but since the art matches up with the words it's downright uncanny
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>debt will be paid off in 6 years
Oh, those sweet innocent souls
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>>154756417
>>154756427
>Spoiler alert: they did not fucking find out and they invested too much into print media at a time when vidya, cartoons, TV, and more started to encroach on comics before the internet demolished print media entirely
>>154756454
>Baseball and western comics
>International appeal
Genuinely what the fuck was Viz smoking, kek. I get Japan likes baseball but that's it.
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How does it just keep getting better and better?
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>expanding distribution
>in the news stands
>1992
My sides
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I like how these have the various characters doing something fun. The ones using Colossus' metallic texture are neat. Of the bad gals, I remember thinking Viper was common, but she fell off. I think Black Cat was the most common if she counts, with Typhoid Mary being the most reoccurring if limited to ones that actually mostly villain.
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>>154756498
Oof. I mean I heard about how Fleer was a bad acquisition but how bad was it? Did the card market collapse first and then comics? Given that we know the crash happened, that 260 million debt looks bad but I forget the exact context.
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Just in case the stockholders missed out on all the character explanations on the second page of the report (I skipped it here, but they summate the backstories of everyone on the cover just in case the suits don't know anyone. It's incredible)
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>>154756537
I don't know it myself, I'm just here for Thunderstrike shouting about how bright Marvel's future is in the early 90s. It's like watching an incredibly enthusiastic cheerleading team aboard the Titanic trying to encourage the captain.
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>>154756530
Rachel in Spider-Woman cosplay is cute!
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>hologram covers
Oh my god, it's beautiful
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They're so enthusiastic about the cards, it's adorable
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>>154756591
Oof. 90's herb trimpe. Well at least they are using Gambit for the card portion. Quite fittingly.
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>>154756604
Yeah, this art's rough. Script is great though, very comfy. Makes me miss how often baseball used to come up in old issues lol.
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They REALLY liked the cards. Like, REALLY REALLY liked them.
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>Modern Marvel Annual Report: Uh we're fucked by Absolute, we're gonna put out blindbags, we're looking into Burbank and Webtoon, variants are our life support, and oh look at how much we save on labor (by not paying them well or on time)! Yep, it's the 90's all over again but only the worst aspects!
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>>154756628
And I bet there're no baseball games and Spider-Woman cosplays in their annual reports, either. Booo!
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Math? Numbers? Financial reports? What are those? This is an X-MEN comic! There are SENTINELS and MALLS and JUBILEE MAKING QUIPS!
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>>154756645
>Vision, we're done here.
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>>154756659
I need a reaction image of Sentinel pogging in the first panel and the title being placed underneath his pogface. Or even all the X-Men as well pogging on this page.
>MEDIA AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS
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>black panther live action film
Did that ever happen? Before 2018, I mean?
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>>154756682
Interesting. Nope I have never heard of BP getting a movie or having interest expressed. Also Elektra and specifically Assassin. That's a shock. But yeah the rest definitely came true. Wonder how fans felt at the time constantly hearing about these in development hell for the longest time before Blade finally came out.
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>>154756694
JUBES! WE NEED MORE! WE GOTTA LISTEN TO HER BEFORE THEY BUY MORE MASSIVE INDUSTRIAL PRINTERS AND WAREHOUSE SPACE! NNNNNOOOOOO!!!!!
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Marvel's 90s financial reports had more action in them than any of the comics Marvel publishes today...

>>154756706
I wonder if they'll go back to Assassin at some point with the MCU. Maybe for a season of the Daredevil TV show? Bet there's an unused script lying around somewhere that modern Marvel might want to cannibalize.
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>>154756712
Yeah uh Marvel was a little late on the Japan stuff.
>>154756727
Man Cap and New Warriors doing PR is another fitting team up. Makes me want to see him lead them. The old vs the new.
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Another one of those pages you could post in any random page thread and not have someone suspect it came from a fucking financial report.

If I hit the image limit while posting this thing, which seems to be much larger than I anticipated, I'll make a new thread for it.
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>>154756601
Magic came out soon after this, so the instinct wasn't wrong. Just that the motivation for cardboard crack wasn't all the way there.
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>>154756746
>1992
>a little late to the weeb train
I dunno, I'd say they were pretty ahead of the game. Didn't weebs only become more of a thing around the late 2000s?
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>>154756745
>baby boomlet
Man, new term I have never heard before.
>increased page rates...difficult time
It's getting....comical at this point. The foreshadowing.
>>154756755
It's a bit overkill with everyone against Electro.
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>Ishtar
dontcha mean Oshtur, Doc?
Ah, whatever, he's clearly got a headache. Probably not in the mood to remember proper names
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>>154756773
>It's getting....comical at this point. The foreshadowing.
Just wait 'til you see this page.
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>>154756765
I dunno. I mean yeah it hadn't picked up steam yet but I would say they should've talked more to guys like Miller and also seen what Dark Horse and indies were doing and also considered if they could have cut costs by printing in B&W. I mean that's rich for me to say but if I were a stockholder and knew about manga (unlikely), I would have brought it up.
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Oh, I think this is it for the comic! Got in under the limit with 5 images to spare, nice. 34 pages... ridiculously extravagant. The actual financial report, which comes after this, is 12 pages long! And there's more character art in those than there is text!
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>>154756780
>Doom was fucking laughing hysterically as he watched the explosions and flames as Marvel crumbled
How villainous....
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>>154756792
>>154756801
Whoops nevermind. Doom committed insider training and ended up getting a huge pile of shit in the end. A lose lose situation.
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>>154756675
your reaction image, sir:
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>>154756822
Marvelous work anon! It brings a tear to mine eye....;)
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>>154756682
Mojo/10
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>>154756820
At least RICHARDS wasn't any brighter this time around. Both of them lost hugely, lol

>>154756838
I'm glad you like it! It's a very ahead-of-its-time rendition of the average MCU connoisseur, if I do say so myself.

The 1993 report also has a comic, and it is similarly enormous and well-detailed, but there's definitely not enough space to post it here... and it's already well past midnight on my end... might have to save it for another day.
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>>154756864
No problem. Remember anons, consoom soulfully and responsibly.
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>>154753262
You’re only angry because you couldn’t jerk off to it
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>>154753669
I feel like the names for Aurora and Meggan got swapped and that Guardian is horribly off-model.
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>>154754324
She was known as Purple Girl when first introduced. Was one of the junior members added to Alpha Flight after the team encountered Scramble and Bedlam and had a huge shakeup.
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>>154754425
Still pissed they made him full mexican in Through the Spider-verse.
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>>154757032
it was going to happen anyways given the state of current marvel
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>>154756945
Yes. And?
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>Google marvel swimsuit pinups 2026
>every article filled with half naked men
When did comics become so fucking gay
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>>154757590
All the geeks/nerds got pushed by faggy libshit theatre kids that just want to push a message.
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>>154753262
Swimsuit issues feel kind of pointless with artists just throwing pin ups up on IG or X all the time
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>>154757590
>anon is afraid of men’s bodies

Okay, prude
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>>154757733
>ha ha u just afraid
Homos always trying to claim we're scared of them instead of disgusted.
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>>154754738
Reminder that Crystal actually wore this in an Avengers issue at the beginning of The Crossing.
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>>154754819
>>154755205
Short hair Wanda was a mistake. Sad that her best appearance in these books was in the group shot here >>154753916
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>>154755709
>'m surprised there's so few Elektra pin-ups
Elektra was dead until the Fall From Grace storyline in Daredevil, which was around 1993, so she would have missed out on being in most of these issues.
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>>154757775
>Bro, I’m so disgusted that I can’t stop talking about men’s bodies and sex between men
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>>154753829
lol Doom has a blow up doll?
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>>154758360
>I know I'm shoving this shit in your face but you're obsessed
Neck yourself
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>>154755421
Isn’t there a Doom Patrol character that looks almost exactly like this
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>>154759816
Well their usual outfits are very distinct and Mary's hair is a different color, but there is a lot of overlap between Typhoid Mary and Crazy Jane conceptually. Mary Walker is a lot more "normal" in depiction of how she works though with Kay's various selves being more like Legion.
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>>154753262
We lost the technology about how drawing this way.
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>>154759519
Kys, faggot retard
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Why were the intro pages skipped they gave us some of the best pages and story context
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Good thread.
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As soon as Quesada got in chrage all this fun stuff stopped.
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Pic rel is alright for more Marvel comedy.
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>>154762604
But pic rel is probably their best and most famous instance of their comedy being funny and packed with short jokes/gags.
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Huh. Did they increase the image limit? Could’ve sworn it was 250.
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>>154753336

That ass turned Rictor gay
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>>154763357
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>>154763372
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>>154763387
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>>154763398
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>>154763407
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>>154763421
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>>154763436
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>>154763453
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>>154763469
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>>154762664
On rare occasions, I've seen good threads get their count extended
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>>154753312
Hmm I wonder who took this pictur-
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>>154754324
is that Morbius in the top right
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The 90’s sure were embarrassing.
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>>154764727
That would be the 2000's.
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>>154764727
80s-90s had a lot of earnest cringe.
00s-10s had disearnest cringe
20s has a fear of earnestness and cringe
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>>154764646
Hey why is Peter's hand in front of Paul's and why is the Peter from the hyperrealistic photoshop dimension there?
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>>154756682
>>154756706
Legend has it that Wesley Snipes was involved in trying to get a Black Panther movie off the ground in the 90s before he did Blade, and people at Hollywood had never heard of the character and thought he was trying to do a movie about the Black Panther Party.
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>>154754198
Without seam.
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>>154753283
She's so yellow
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>>154754121
Why Mary Jane, what humongous eyes you have
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>>154766965
Well she’s Asian.
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>>154766654
hot
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>>154764680
no
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>>154754542
>Why is Betsy (formerly Kwannon) such a slut?
She was a Sex Ninja, it's part of the job.
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>>154768575
God damn sex ninjas stealthily fucking people. You’re just walking down the street and then BAM you’ve got cum in your pants.
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>>154755214
the one that drove a NVBIAN KWEEN to madness
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>>154755214
>>154771765
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>>154756780
>>154756792
>oh shit, this company is retarded
>better trick Dr. Strange and whatever dick-heads he's roped into his scrying scheme into buying my bags
based
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>>154771818
D’you think they would’ve done it if they were given a few more years?
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>>154756519
>>154756530
>Clean-shaven Herc
Thanks, I hate it.
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>>154773379
I didn’t even realize that was Herc at first. Thought it was some D-lister they’d just introduced and wanted to prop up, lol.



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