1979-80 - John Byrne's X-Men sketches

1980 - Dazzler revisited

Jim Shooter's blog is a wealth of information on the Marvel 1980s and he's recently posted about the origins of Dazzler (jimshooter.com).

Here are some of the more interesting Dazzler tidbits (http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/07/its-so-hard-to-get-good-help-these-days.html)

• "At the height of the bidding war, Bo Derek decreed that her husband, John HAD to be the director.  Famous for behind-schedule, over-budget debacles, John Derek had to direct or no Bo. Every bidder withdrew."
• Dazzler #1 ended up selling 428,000 copies.
• You can download a copy of the Dazzler movie treatment here: http://www.illustratedmedia.com/downloads/Dazzler-Movie-Treatment-scanned.pdf 

1985 - Breakdown of Marvel Subscription

Here's the breakdown of Marvel's active subscription in 1985 pulled from jimshooter.com.

Surprised to see GI Joe with that much of a lead. Alpha Flight did quite well too.

Let's play the unpublished cover game! (Round 5)

Guess the title and number of the original issues for which these following unpublished covers were meant for.

1986 - San Diego Comic Con

In 1986, the San Diego Comic Convention took place on July 31–August 3 at the Convention and Performing Arts Center and Hotel.

The convention that year boasted guests such as:

• Ray Bradbury
• Jack Kirby
• Sergio Aragones
• Frank Miller
• Christ Claremont
• Dave Sim
• Archie Goodwin
• George Perez
• Jim Shooter
• Stan Lee
• Kevin Eastman
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Moebius

Attendance was just over 6,000 people, compared to last year's 130,000!

A special thanks to Stephen Gurr for most of the photos below!

Frank Miller and Jack "The King" Kirby

Frank Miller

Chris Claremont

Jim Shooter and Stan Lee

An amazing Warlord costume.

Happy Canada Day, eh!

Happy Canada Day!

July is finally here...

And the San Diego Comic Con is only 19 days away!