{"title":"Vintage Comic Collectibles | DC, Marvel \u0026 Comic Strip Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eComic books and the characters who jumped off the page: a sealed 1992 Morbius, DC and Marvel postcards, a Superman print, a 1966 Batman bat-signal sticker, Dick Tracy and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe big run of comics from our sellers is one click up in the menu.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vintage-patriotic-bicentennial-dick-tracy-stickers-1975-chester-gould-chicago","title":"Vintage 1975 Bicentennial Dick Tracy Patriotic Stickers 🕵️ Chester Gould Liberty Bell Flag Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate Set of 2","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWho Created Dick Tracy, America's Toughest Cop? 🕵️ A Vintage 1975 Dick Tracy Patriotic Sticker Pair, Chester Gould, Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3 1\/4\" x 2\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/486gzkcU1DU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou get the pair. On the first, Dick Tracy in his fedora stands beside the Liberty Bell in a red shield with Proclaim Your Liberty and DICK TRACY in red; on the second, his famous square-jawed profile sits beside a waving American flag with 'Tis the Star Spangled Banner and DICK TRACY in blue. Both carry the printed signature CHESTER GOULD and © CHICAGO-TRIBUNE NEW YORK NEWS SYNDICATE, on cream stock with the split backing paper still on. Neither has ever been stuck to anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔔 Proclaim your liberty\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth lines come straight out of American history. The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is cast with Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land, a line from Leviticus - and its famous crack, the story goes, widened sometime in the 1840s, and instead of melting it down and recasting it, Philadelphia simply retired the bell, crack and all, which is why a cracked bell came to mean more to Americans than a perfect one ever could - and 'Tis the Star-Spangled Banner is Francis Scott Key's own line from the poem he wrote after watching the British bombard Fort McHenry in September 1814. Put them in Dick Tracy's mouth for the 200th birthday and you've got a sticker that says law, order and Old Glory all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🇺🇸 Two hundred years\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese came out for the Bicentennial, the run-up to July 4, 1976, when every company, comic strip and cereal box in the country found a way to wrap itself in red, white and blue. Nothing printed on them gives a year - the dealers who carry this same pair call it 1975 or 1976 - and the Tracy art matches the strip as Gould was still drawing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a big party. The American Freedom Train, a steam-pulled museum on rails, toured the country in 1975 and 1976 with the nation's treasures aboard, towns repainted their fire hydrants as Minutemen, and on July 4, 1976 the tall ships of Operation Sail filled New York Harbor. Little stickers like these were part of that same flag-waving spirit, the kind of thing a kid stuck on a lunch box or a bike fender that summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🕵️ Chester Gould's detective\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChester Gould drew Dick Tracy for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, the comics arm of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. Gould first pitched him as Plainclothes Tracy; Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the syndicate's boss - remembered in newspaper lore as the editor who saw something in a struggling cartoonist's pitch - changed it to Dick Tracy, and the strip debuted on October 4, 1931, in the middle of the Chicago gangster years. Old-timers in comics fandom like to point out that by 1937 it was the third most popular strip in America, behind only Little Orphan Annie and Popeye - not bad for gritty crime instead of gags. It was a hard, violent strip for its day, full of grotesque villains like Flattop, Pruneface and the Brow, and it gave the country the two-way wrist radio in 1946, long before anybody wore a phone on their wrist. Gould kept drawing it until he retired in 1977, so these Bicentennial stickers come from the very end of his more than forty-five years at the board. Along the way Tracy had his own radio show, Republic movie serials in the late 1930s and, much later, the 1990 Warren Beatty movie; after Gould retired, Max Allan Collins took over the writing. But this is Gould's Tracy, the original, with the hawk nose and the jaw you could break a brick on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🗽 About these\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery one I have is the same unused pair. Frame them side by side, put them in a comics collection or a Fourth of July display, or give them to the friend who still has a Crimestoppers badge. The supply is finite - nobody's printing Gould's Bicentennial Tracy stickers again, and once these last pairs are gone, they'll be very difficult to acquire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-patriotic-bicentennial-popeye-stickers-1975-american-icon-since-1929\"\u003eVintage 1975 Popeye Bicentennial Stickers 🎆 King Features Patriotic Set\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-patriotic-bicentennial-bozo-clown-stickers-1975-worlds-most-famous\"\u003eVintage 1975 Bozo the Clown Bicentennial Stickers 🤡 Larry Harmon Pictures Corp Patriotic Americana Pair\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1975-patriotic-bicentennial-yogi-bear-boo-stickers-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1975 Yogi Bear Boo Boo Bicentennial Stickers 🐻 Patriotic Hanna‑Barbera NOS\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43674044563688,"sku":"VAG-7926113468648","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.4132540539_88io.jpg?v=1785357961"},{"product_id":"vintage-1990s-mcdonalds-happy-meal-bag-batman-batmobile-dc-comics-treasures","title":"Vintage 1991 McDonald’s Batman Happy Meal Bag 🦇 Unused NOS DC Comics Fast Food Advertising","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBatman in a Happy Meal? 🦇 Vintage 1991 McDonald's Happy Meal Bag, NOS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11\" x 6\" flat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b29oJESlqP8\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal vintage 1991 McDonald’s Happy Meal paper bag\u003c\/strong\u003e featuring Batman and the Batmobile, from the \u003cstrong\u003eBatman Returns\u003c\/strong\u003e Happy Meal, the one with the Penguin and Catwoman. It's new old stock, flat and never filled with fries. These paper bags were designed as disposable fast-food packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🦇 What's on it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front has the golden arches and \u003cem\u003e\"McDonald's® Happy Meal® presents\"\u003c\/em\u003e under \u003cstrong\u003ePLEASE PUT LITTER IN ITS PLACE\u003c\/strong\u003e, then the bat signal over Gotham and the long black Batmobile roaring down a city street. Two puzzles run across the bottom: \u003cem\u003e\"Batman™ is hero to the people of Gotham City™. Find the letter 'H' for Hero hidden in 10 places in this picture,\"\u003c\/em\u003e and how many words can you make from \u003cem\u003e\"BATMOBILE?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back is the villains' side. The Penguin is tearing out of town in his yellow roadster with a spinning red spiral, and you get a maze to help him escape to his hideout at the zoo. Catwoman races by in her cat-eyed car, and there's a bird crossword with PEACOCK filled in to get you started. My favorite part is the joke in the corner: \u003cem\u003e\"Q: What topping does Catwoman put on her food? A: CATsup!\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurn it over and the bottom flap has the answers (Duck, Parrot, Peacock, Owl, Flamingo; mat, mile, beat, oil \"and over 20 more words\"), a dashed \u003cstrong\u003eProof of Purchase\u003c\/strong\u003e box, the copyright lines \u003cem\u003e\"©1991 McDonald's Corporation, McD#91-183, FC# MCDY-322, Printed in United States of America\"\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\"TM and ©1991 DC Comics Inc.,\"\u003c\/em\u003e and one line I love, \u003cem\u003e\"CORRECTED COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR VEHICLE,\"\u003c\/em\u003e a little legal fix printed right on the bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e📅 1991 or 1992?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth, really. The artwork and the bag are copyrighted \u003cstrong\u003e1991\u003c\/strong\u003e, which is how most collectors list them, and they were handed out with Happy Meals in \u003cstrong\u003eJune 1992\u003c\/strong\u003e when \u003cem\u003eBatman Returns\u003c\/em\u003e hit theaters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🎬 The Happy Meal that got McDonald's in trouble\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe toys in this promotion were four vehicles: the launching \u003cstrong\u003eBatmobile\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003eBatmissile\u003c\/strong\u003e, Catwoman's \u003cstrong\u003eCat Coupe\u003c\/strong\u003e with a tail that wags as she rides, and the Penguin's \u003cstrong\u003eRoto-Roadster\u003c\/strong\u003e with an umbrella that twirls. You can see the Penguin's and Catwoman's cars right there on the back of this bag. McDonald's also sold Batman collector cups with lids that doubled as a little frisbee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen people saw the movie. Tim Burton's \u003cem\u003eBatman Returns\u003c\/em\u003e was a dark, strange PG-13 film, with Danny DeVito's Penguin biting a man's nose and Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in stitched vinyl, and parents were not happy it was being sold through Happy Meals. Letters poured in to McDonald's and Warner Bros., the Dove Foundation criticized the tie-in, and NBC talk-show host Faith Daniels ran a segment called \"Parents Against Batman Returns.\" McDonald's answered that the program was meant to let kids \"experience the fun of Batman the character,\" not to promote the movie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurton didn't direct the next one. Warner Bros. handed the series to Joel Schumacher for the brighter, more toy-friendly \u003cem\u003eBatman Forever\u003c\/em\u003e in 1995, and the story fans have told ever since is that the Happy Meal backlash is a big part of why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e♻️ \"Made from recycled paper\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook at the little symbol at the top left, the golden arches inside the recycling arrows, with \u003cem\u003e\"Made from recycled paper, 65% post-consumer.\"\u003c\/em\u003e That's McDonald's early-'90s green push. In April 1990 the company launched \u003cstrong\u003eMcRecycle USA\u003c\/strong\u003e, promising to spend $100 million a year on recycled materials and switching to recycled paper for things like Happy Meal boxes and bags. That August it teamed up with the Environmental Defense Fund to cut its trash, and in November 1990 it announced it was dropping the old foam clamshell. This bag comes right out of that moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1991 (handed out June 1992)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrand: McDonald’s Happy Meal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharacters: Batman, Batmobile, The Penguin, Catwoman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: New Old Stock (unused)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaterial: Recycled paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShips flat and protected to preserve condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/1991-mcdonalds-happy-meal-bag-classic-characters-vintage-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1991 McDonald’s Happy Meal Bag 🍟 Ronald, Hamburglar \u0026amp; Birdie NOS\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1980s-tom-jerry-mcdonalds-happy-meal-bag-droopy-spike\"\u003eVintage 1989 Tom \u0026amp; Jerry McDonald’s Happy Meal Bag 🎵 Droopy \u0026amp; Spike\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-batman-vs-dc-comics-postcard-incredible-graham-nolan-art\"\u003eVintage 1990s Batman vs Batman DC Comics Postcard 🦇 | Graham Nolan Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44468973797608,"sku":"VAG-8206942961896","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.4909289119_raiq.jpg?v=1785439235"},{"product_id":"vintage-1990s-dc-comics-lobos-back-1-bite-fan-boy-promo-pin-pinback","title":"Vintage 1992 DC Comics Lobo's Back Bite Me Fan Boy 📌 Promo Pinback Button","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWho Is Lobo, the Main Man of DC Comics? 🤘 A Vintage 1992 DC Comics Bite Me, Fan Boy Lobo's Back Promo Pinback Button\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tMvH7B4aWcg\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eA little black tin button with BITE ME, FAN BOY hand-lettered in drippy white horror-movie letters, and printed around the curled edge, © 1992 DC COMICS INC. Metal back, wire pin, and every one I have is unused. It doesn't say Lobo anywhere on it - it didn't need to. Anybody standing in a comic shop in 1992 knew exactly who talked like that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e💀 Lobo's Back\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story goes that DC gave these out to push Lobo's Back, the four-issue 1992 miniseries painted by Simon Bisley, whose first issue came out in the spring of 1992. Sellers still pair the button with copies of Lobo's Back #1, a Keith Giffen fan site took Bite Me Fan Boy for its name, and the Busy Beaver Button Museum has the button in its collection. In the book Lobo gets himself killed and then fights his way back out of both Heaven and Hell, because naturally neither one would keep him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e👽 The joke that got out of hand\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLobo first showed up in The Omega Men #3 in June 1983, created by writer Roger Slifer and artist Keith Giffen - just another heavy for hire. Comic shop old-timers will tell you Lobo spent years as a footnote, the kind of character back-issue bins were built for. Then in 1990 Giffen and writer Alan Grant brought him back in Lobo: The Last Czarnian as a parody of the grim-and-gritty antiheroes everybody was buying, and the joke backfired in the best way. Giffen said later he'd meant Lobo as an indictment of the Punisher and Wolverine hero prototype, and somehow he caught on as the high-violence poster boy. Go figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong longtime fans, Lobo's own backstory carries its own dark punchline: he's remembered as the last surviving Czarnian, a grim mirror of Superman's last son of a dead world - except in Lobo's telling he's the one who wiped out his home planet himself, and he isn't the least bit sorry about it. That's the attitude Bite Me, Fan Boy was built to sell: insult the very people buying the comic, and watch them love it more for the nerve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🎨 Simon Bisley\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBisley came out of British heavy metal art and the legendary British anthology 2000 AD, and his Lobo looked like an album cover - huge muscles, lurid color, chains and cigars. That metal-poster look is all over this button too: it reads less like superhero merchandise and more like something you'd pin to a denim vest next to your band buttons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🏢 DC, then and now\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDC goes back to 1935, when Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson started National Allied Publications and put out New Fun; deep in debt to printer Harry Donenfeld, he got Detective Comics going in 1937 - the DC in the name - and was squeezed out within a year. The company took the name DC Comics officially in 1977. By 1992 the speculator boom was in full swing, with foil covers and number ones being bought like lottery tickets, and Lobo rode it to his own ongoing series, which ran until 1999. The bubble burst, but the Main Man never really went away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🤘 About these\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey're 1 inch across. Pin one to a jacket, a backpack or a comic shop corkboard, or give it to the friend who still thinks Lobo is the funniest thing DC ever did. The supply is finite - DC isn't making these again, and once these last unused ones are gone, they'll be very difficult to acquire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-batman-vs-dc-comics-postcard-incredible-graham-nolan-art\"\u003eVintage 1990s Batman vs Batman DC Comics Postcard 🦇 | Graham Nolan Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1992-bram-stokers-dracula-movie-pin-francis-ford-coppola-film\"\u003eVintage 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula Pin Back Button 📌 Francis Ford Coppola Film Promo - Gothic Vampire Horror Movie Collectible Pinback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-shredder-movie-pin-1990-tmnt-film-treasures-gifts-home\"\u003eVintage 1990 TMNT Shredder Pin 📌 Mirage Studios Licensed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pin-Back Button, Cartoon Villain Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44492523864296,"sku":"VAG-8216391254248","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.4942938365_c28b.jpg?v=1785439304"},{"product_id":"vintage-1990s-batman-vs-dc-comics-postcard-incredible-graham-nolan-art","title":"Vintage 1990s Batman vs Batman DC Comics Postcard 🦇 | Graham Nolan Art","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBatman vs Batman? 🦇 Vintage 1994 DC Comics KnightsEnd Postcard, Graham Nolan Art\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6\" x 4\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CbF8o9HXcgg\" title=\"Vintage Batman vs Batman DC Comics Postcard\"\u003e\n \u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat's Batman punching Batman, and that's the whole story. In the summer of 1994 Bruce Wayne came back to take his cowl from the man who'd been wearing it, and DC put out this postcard to tell you exactly which ten comics to buy to watch it happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🦇 What's On It\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the left is Bruce Wayne in the classic grey suit, blue cowl and cape, yellow oval on the chest, landing a right hook. Taking it is the armored Batman of Jean-Paul Valley: gold plate across the chest and shoulders, one red lens in the cowl, clawed gauntlets with blade fins, and a scalloped cape spiked like bat wings. There's the red DC bullet logo in the corner, the signatures \u003cstrong\u003eNolan '94\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eS. Hanna\u003c\/strong\u003e printed right into the art, and the line \u003cstrong\u003e® TM DC Comics © 1994. All Rights Reserved. Printed in Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlip it over and the left half is a charcoal panel with the official \u003cstrong\u003eKNIGHTSEND\u003c\/strong\u003e checklist, a little tick box in front of every issue: July '94, Parts 1 to 6 (Batman #509, Shadow of the Bat #29, Detective Comics #676, Legends of the Dark Knight #62, Robin #8, Catwoman #12), August '94, Parts 7 to 10 (Batman #510, Shadow of the Bat #30, Detective Comics #677, Legends of the Dark Knight #63), and then the KnightsEnd Aftermath in Robin #9 and Catwoman #13. The right half is the mailing side, PLACE STAMP HERE and the address lines, printed over a big pale cracked bat emblem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e⚔️ The Story\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Knightfall, Bane broke Bruce Wayne's back, and Jean-Paul Valley took over as Batman. Valley was Azrael, created by Denny O'Neil and Joe Quesada in 1992, a grad student who'd been conditioned as an assassin for the Order of St. Dumas, and he built himself that armored suit. KnightsEnd is where Bruce, healed and retrained by Lady Shiva, takes the cowl back. It ends in the Batcave: Bruce opens a hatch over the very hole he fell into as a boy and lets the sunlight into the night lenses of Valley's helmet, and Valley takes the mask off and gives it up. Fans call the whole three-part run the KnightSaga. DC's writers built it to answer the gritty, \"violent hero\" style that ruled 90s comics and show the traditional Batman made the better hero; they even drew Valley with that style's ballooning muscles and tiny feet. Which is exactly what you're looking at: the classic Batman winning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy favorite detail is that cracked bat on the back. Every KnightsEnd cover carried a bat-in-oval badge in the corner that starts out shattered on Part One and pieces itself back together issue by issue until it's whole on Part Ten. The card prints the broken one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e✍️ Nolan and Hanna\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGraham Nolan\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1962 in Long Beach, New York, and he's the artist who designed Bane and co-created him with writer Chuck Dixon (Bane's first appearance was Vengeance of Bane #1, January 1993). He later drew The Phantom Sunday strip and won an Inkpot Award in 2014. \u003cstrong\u003eScott Hanna\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Pennsylvania inker who spent five years on Detective Comics through Knightfall, Knightquest and KnightsEnd, then about fifteen years on Spider-Man, many of them inking John Romita Jr., and he's won several Inkwell Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two of them were the pencils and inks on Detective Comics #676 and #677, Parts 3 and 9 right there on the checklist, and their names sit on this drawing in the same order, Nolan on top and Hanna underneath. The picture isn't one of the KnightsEnd covers. It's its own promo drawing, and the signatures are printed, so every card has them. Collectors will tell you these went out to comic shops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat DC bullet in the corner is Milton Glaser's design from 1976. It went on DC covers in 1977 and stayed there until 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e📏 Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVintage 1994 DC Comics KnightsEnd promotional postcard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFront: Bruce Wayne vs Jean-Paul Valley, printed signatures Nolan '94 and S. Hanna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: the official KnightsEnd checklist, July and August '94, plus the Aftermath issues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout 6\" x 4\", Printed in Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou'll get one card like the ones shown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e🖼️ It's great framed next to a run of KnightsEnd issues, pinned up on a Batman wall, or tucked into a long box with the comics it lists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-mcdonalds-happy-meal-bag-batman-batmobile-dc-comics-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1991 McDonald’s Batman Happy Meal Bag 🦇 Unused NOS DC Comics Fast Food Advertising\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-dc-comics-lobos-back-1-bite-fan-boy-promo-pin-pinback\"\u003eVintage 1992 DC Comics Lobo's Back Bite Me Fan Boy 📌 Promo Pinback Button\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-superman-dc-comics-collectible-card-print-1989-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1980s Superman DC Comics Collectible Print 🃏 Norman James\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44520942534888,"sku":"VAG-8229824299240","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.4931875910_7ta5.jpg?v=1785439512"},{"product_id":"vintage-1990s-morbius-living-vampire-1-collectors-edition-factory","title":"Vintage 1992 Morbius Living Vampire Comic 🧛 Factory Sealed","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRemember Morbius #1? 🧛 Vintage 1992 Living Vampire Comic, Factory Sealed\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6 1\/2\" x 10 1\/4\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKIoWIo7OAI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e🧛 \u003cstrong\u003eMorbius: The Living Vampire #1\u003c\/strong\u003e, September 1992, still \u003cstrong\u003efactory sealed\u003c\/strong\u003e in its original Marvel polybag with the bonus poster inside. This is \u003cstrong\u003ePart 3 of 6\u003c\/strong\u003e of Marvel's \u003cstrong\u003eRise of the Midnight Sons\u003c\/strong\u003e crossover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the top of the bag: \u003cem\u003eSpecial Collectors' Item Issue\u003c\/em\u003e. The cover has \u003cstrong\u003eRise of the Midnight Sons\u003c\/strong\u003e over a big purple \u003cstrong\u003eMORBIUS\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Morbius himself leaping out of the shadows, fangs bared, red eyes, cape flying, with a Ghost Rider skull in the corner box. Cover price \u003cem\u003e$2.75 US, $3.30 CAN, UK £1.85\u003c\/em\u003e, issue \u003cem\u003e1, Sept\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Comics Code Authority stamp. A yellow starburst lists the whole run: \u003cem\u003ePlus: Bonus Poster in Each Issue: Ghost Rider #28, Spirits of Vengeance #1, Morbius #1, Darkhold #1, Nightstalkers #1, Ghost Rider #31\u003c\/em\u003e. On the back, \u003cem\u003eTM \u0026amp; © 1992 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, and the bag says \u003cem\u003ePrinted and packaged in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🦇 The Midnight Sons\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRise of the Midnight Sons ran through the summer of 1992, bookended by Ghost Rider #28 and #31, with the four chapters in between launching four brand-new titles: \u003cem\u003eGhost Rider \u0026amp; Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMorbius: The Living Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDarkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNightstalkers\u003c\/em\u003e. The story brings back \u003cstrong\u003eLilith, Mother of Demons\u003c\/strong\u003e, locked away for thousands of years by Atlantean sorcerers, who breaks loose to open a rift so she and her children, the Lilin, can take the world. Every issue shipped sealed in a polybag with a mini-poster, and line up all six posters and they make one big picture. This one launched the Morbius solo series by writer \u003cstrong\u003eLen Kaminski\u003c\/strong\u003e and artist \u003cstrong\u003eRon Wagner\u003c\/strong\u003e, which ran from 1992 to 1995 with Morbius as a deadly antihero and vigilante.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🩸 The vampire the Comics Code let in\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorbius only exists because the rules changed. For years the Comics Code Authority banned vampires outright; in February 1971 it updated its code and lifted the ban, and that October \u003cstrong\u003eRoy Thomas\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eGil Kane\u003c\/strong\u003e introduced Michael Morbius in \u003cem\u003eThe Amazing Spider-Man\u003c\/em\u003e #101. He's a famous biochemist with a rare blood disease who tries to cure himself with experimental chemicals, electroshock and vampire bat samples, and turns himself into a living vampire instead. Half a century later he got his own movie, with \u003cstrong\u003eJared Leto\u003c\/strong\u003e as Morbius, released April 1, 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e🌟 A sealed, poster-inside copy of a 1992 Marvel launch issue, great for a Morbius fan or anyone putting the Midnight Sons run together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-batman-vs-dc-comics-postcard-incredible-graham-nolan-art\"\u003eVintage 1990s Batman vs Batman DC Comics Postcard 🦇 | Graham Nolan Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-dc-comics-lobos-back-1-bite-fan-boy-promo-pin-pinback\"\u003eVintage 1992 DC Comics Lobo's Back Bite Me Fan Boy 📌 Promo Pinback Button\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1992-bram-stokers-dracula-movie-pin-francis-ford-coppola-film\"\u003eVintage 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula Pin Back Button 📌 Francis Ford Coppola Film Promo - Gothic Vampire Horror Movie Collectible Pinback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44569678610664,"sku":"VAG-8249602179304","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.5058994751_8mbi.jpg?v=1785439751"},{"product_id":"vintage-superman-dc-comics-collectible-card-print-1989-treasures","title":"Vintage 1980s Superman DC Comics Collectible Print 🃏 Norman James","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRemember Superman Over the Skyline? 🦸 Superman, Fists Up, Over the Skyline\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10\" x 8\" ~ Little to no wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUeBFsR4Kms\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a 1989 licensed Superman print, stock #K005, published by Norman James Co. Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C. Superman stands full-length, cape streaming out behind him, fists clenched, looking off past a dark city skyline against a yellow sky - the \"SUPERMAN\" logo in red 3-D block letters along the bottom. No artist is credited on the print. The back carries Norman James' shield logo, the company's Vancouver imprint, the stock number, and \"TM \u0026amp; (c) DC Comics 1989. Used Under License.\" I love this pose - fists clenched, cape out, the whole city behind him. It's Superman the way a kid draws him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🏙️ Norman James Co. Ltd., Vancouver\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNorman James was a Vancouver poster and print house that started up in 1986. In 1989, the same year as Tim Burton's Batman film, the company put out a numbered K-series of licensed DC and Marvel character prints - Wolverine (#K003), Batman (#K004), this Superman (#K005), Jack Nicholson's Joker from the Batman movie (#K002), and Spider-Man (#K011) among them. The same artwork also went out in a larger poster format under a matching 29xx numbering: this print's companion is Norman James' full-size Superman poster #2905. Norman James kept going into the 1990s, later putting out licensed NHL team posters - a 1991 Vancouver Canucks poster and a 1995 Pavel Bure\/Alexander Mogilny \"Dynamic Duo\" print among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🦸 The Man of Steel\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuperman was dreamed up by two kids from Cleveland, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and he first flew on the cover of Action Comics #1 in June 1938. By the summer of 1939 he had a comic all his own. That big red SUPERMAN logo with the blue edges running back into the distance on this print comes from those early covers too. Joe Shuster drew the logo a little differently every issue, until DC's letterer Ira Schnapp straightened out the letters and made the 3-D perspective consistent, and his version first ran on Superman #6 in 1940. It stayed on the comics until 1983, and it's still the one most people picture when they think of Superman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis print came out in 1989, the year after Superman's 50th birthday and the same summer Tim Burton's Batman hit theaters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e📏 Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989 Superman print #K005, Norman James Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., licensed by DC Comics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull-length Superman over a yellow sky and a dark city skyline, red SUPERMAN logo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: Norman James shield logo, stock number, DC copyright line, UPC, Printed in Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10\" x 8\", stiff card stock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou'll get one print like the ones shown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e🖼️ It's the perfect size for a standard 8 x 10 frame, and it looks great in a kid's room, a comic shop wall, or next to a stack of your old Superman books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-batman-vs-dc-comics-postcard-incredible-graham-nolan-art\"\u003eVintage 1990s Batman vs Batman DC Comics Postcard 🦇 | Graham Nolan Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-mcdonalds-happy-meal-bag-batman-batmobile-dc-comics-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1991 McDonald’s Batman Happy Meal Bag 🦇 Unused NOS DC Comics Fast Food Advertising\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-dc-comics-lobos-back-1-bite-fan-boy-promo-pin-pinback\"\u003eVintage 1992 DC Comics Lobo's Back Bite Me Fan Boy 📌 Promo Pinback Button\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45568283967720,"sku":"VAG-8600897618152","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.5875377371_bx4b.jpg?v=1785440920"},{"product_id":"vintage-1966-alan-whitney-batman-signal-bat-decal-sticker","title":"Vintage 1966 Alan-Whitney Batman Signal Bat Sticker - Decal ✨ Dark Knight, Cool!","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRemember the Bat Signal Sticker? ✨ Vintage 1966 Alan-Whitney Batman Decal\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3 1\/2\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkCwo2SJMVk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eCool! That's still the only word for these. This is one of Alan-Whitney's Glo-Colors Bat Stickers: a solid black bat silhouette, wings spread flat and scalloped along the bottom edge, stamped onto a disc of bright fluorescent paper. Peel the kraft backing off and it's ready for a book, a bicycle, an auto bumper, a window or a wagon — that's the maker's own list off its old store pack, not mine. I'm holding a real stack of these: pick Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Orange, Light Orange or White, or grab all 7 Colors and have the full run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stickers themselves don't say a word: no name, no date, no price, nothing printed front or back, just the bat on its disc and plain kraft paper behind it. They come loose, without a card. The bat is what gives them away. The same bat, in the same day-glo colors, went out five to a cello pack under a printed header card, and that card says it best, so here it is close to word for word: \"5 GLO-COLORS BAT STICKERS, (c) 1966 Alan-Whitney Co. Inc., New Haven, Conn., Made in U.S.A., 5 for 39c, Peel Off Backing Paper — Apply to Any Smooth Surface, for Books, Bicycles, Auto Bumpers, Windows, Wagons, etc.\" Thirty-nine cents for five bat stickers, and a company telling you flat out to stick one on your bike. That's a great pitch on its own, sixty years later. Alan-Whitney was a New Haven, Connecticut outfit, and bat stickers weren't their only novelty — they also made the 1964-65 Space-Bird fabric kite, a nice bit of color in its own right, and Hal Levine, a name tied to Alan-Whitney Company, is acknowledged in \"The Complete Book of Kites and Kite Flying.\" So this wasn't a nameless factory stamp; it was a small company with a name behind it, making the kind of five-and-dime novelties a kid would actually beg for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1966 also happens to be the year the Batman TV series exploded onto ABC and turned the whole country bat-crazy — Adam West, Burt Ward, POW and ZAP right there in your living room, and every dime store and drugstore counter in America stocking up on anything bat-shaped to catch the wave. The show premiered on January 12, 1966, with Adam West as Bruce Wayne and Batman and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson and Robin, keeping Gotham City safe twice a week that first season in full camp color, and it ran 120 episodes through March 1968. In their 2016 book TV (The Book), critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked it the 82nd greatest American TV show of all time, and wrote that West's performance took decades to be properly recognized. Alan-Whitney's header card doesn't carry a Batman name or a comics company's copyright line anywhere on it; it just sells \"Bat Stickers.\" So I read it as a small novelty maker riding a national craze with its own bat design, not as an officially licensed tie-in — and either way, it's exactly the kind of thing that went home from a dime-store counter in 1966 and ended up on a bike fender by the weekend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are unused, still riding on their original backing paper — never peeled, never stuck to anything. The kraft-paper liner on the back carries a straight split line - that's where the peel-off backing opens, just as the maker's pack told you to peel it; that's how a sixty-year-old peel-off backing looks. I've got dozens of these across seven colors, so think of the photo as the floor of the stack, not the ceiling — most of what I'm holding looks just as crisp or crisper than the one pictured. The fluorescent colors especially still glow the way day-glo paper is supposed to; the white runs a little softer and creamier by comparison, which is its own kind of nice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach disc is 3.5 inches across. A full set of seven framed together on a dark mount makes a handsome little grid, bat wings all pointing the same direction. Pick your color, or take the whole run. Cool, right?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-batman-vs-dc-comics-postcard-incredible-graham-nolan-art\"\u003eVintage 1990s Batman vs Batman DC Comics Postcard 🦇 | Graham Nolan Art\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1990s-mcdonalds-happy-meal-bag-batman-batmobile-dc-comics-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1991 McDonald’s Batman Happy Meal Bag 🦇 Unused NOS DC Comics Fast Food Advertising\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/rare-vintage-1960s-benevolent-and-protective-order-of-elks-decal-embla-crest-s2\"\u003eVintage 1960s B.P.O.E. 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Hydro-Man rears up out of a column of water, fists like two big splashes, against a shiny copper foil wall of \u003cstrong\u003eHYDROMAN • HYDROMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e lettering, with \u003cem\u003e© 1999 Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e in the corner and \u003cstrong\u003eUniversal Studios Islands of Adventure™\u003c\/strong\u003e across the bottom. New Old Stock, never written on or mailed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe back sets the scene: \u003cem\u003e\"Hydroman. An explosive comic book city caught up in the battle between good and evil which sets the stage for the first-ever interactive experience with three 21st century thrill rides.\"\u003c\/em\u003e There's the Islands of Adventure compass logo, the barcode, and the fine print \u003cem\u003eCalifornia Scenes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e©Motion Media, Metal-Tex™ Patent Pending\u003c\/em\u003e, the patented metallic printing that gives the front its shine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🕷️ Why Hydro-Man is on a park postcard\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIslands of Adventure opened on May 28, 1999, and the big draw on Marvel Super Hero Island was \u003cstrong\u003eThe Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man\u003c\/strong\u003e. In that ride five villains, the Sinister Syndicate of Doctor Octopus, Scream, Electro, the Hobgoblin and \u003cstrong\u003eHydro-Man\u003c\/strong\u003e, steal the Statue of Liberty with an anti-gravity cannon, and you ride through New York in a 3-D motion car to help Spider-Man get it back. It mixed a track-moving motion base with thirteen 30-foot screens, and it won the Golden Ticket Award for best dark ride twelve years running, 1999 through 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHydro-Man himself is Morris \"Morrie\" Bench, a merchant sailor Spider-Man accidentally knocked overboard just as an experimental generator was being tested in the ocean. 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