Deadpool Mighty Muggs Custom Toy
Thanks to his appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (or whatever that thing was), Marvel gave the "Merc with a Mouth" a huge push in 2009-2010, making Deadpool more visible than…
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Marvel Legends Retro 3.75 Marvel Girl Custom Toy
I always liked the late-80s era costumes for the original five X-Men when they were known as X-Factor. While the black-and-yellow 1963 costumes evoked the radiation symbol, I liked the…
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Sad Caliban
Quote from Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men's 23 November 2015 episode. Doodled for fun. Caliban is a character from the Morlocks, a group of mutants who lived in the…
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Marvel Legends Juggernat Repaint
I don't know if you noticed, but I have a whole section of this website dedicated to alternate colors for characters in Capcom fighting games. In 1996, Capcom released X-Men…
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That time Magneto confronted the Red Skull
Pages from Captain America 367, 1990. Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencils by Kieron Dwyer, inks by Danny Bulanadi. This is not the whole issue. Captain America, Magneto, Red Skull, The…
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Firestar 2016
I was just going through old drawings, and came across this digital sketch I did of Firestar from Marvel Comics. This one is notable for me trying a different way…
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X-Men: Phoenix Saga Space Wolverine by Toy Biz
In 1995, Toy Biz was making Marvel Comics action figures all over the place. Several series of X-Men toys had already come out, a couple of Spider-Man lines, and something…
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Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter character art by Bengus
Hey, you know what I like? Artwork. You know what else I like? Video games and comics. You know what ELSE I like? Artwork about video games and comics. Japanese…
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X-Men vs. Street Fighter Kumite 2022
I did one of these last year: https://retroandyart.com/2021/07/x-men-children-of-the-atom-birthday-kumite/ If you’re not gonna go back and read last year’s post, here’s the one-paragraph version: In November 2020, my friend Kayin invited…
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X-Men Oddity: Recycled art on the X-Cutioner’s Song Poster
While I was recently looking up Marvel Epic Collections, I came across this poster for the 1992 X-Men Event, The X-Cutioner's Song: This was a poster that hung in comic…
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Upcoming Marvel Epic Collections: July-Dec 2022
Last September, I looked at a bunch of then-upcoming Marvel Epic Collections that I thought were interesting, and in the 10 months since, I've bought them all. So I thought,…
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Collecting X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse
One of the best-loved X-Men stories came out in 1995. Marvel Comics cancelled all of the monthly X-family titles for four months, and replaced them with a dark, dystopian world…
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1970s Cyclops Marvel Legends custom toy
When Hasbro announced the Retro Marvel Legends X-Men line and included this figure of late-1980s Cyclops, all I could see was potential for custom figures. The most obvious was Cyke’s…
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OverPower Live Action 3: X-Men
Read Part One by clicking this sentence! Read Part Two by clicking THIS sentence! Uh... it's the X-Men. Names are listed alphabetically. Read the first part to see what the…
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Toy Biz 5-inch 1980s Wolverine Custom Toy
Fun fact: This is somehow the first post I've ever made about Wolverine. At the end of 2021, Wolverine is a character that doesn't really need an introduction; He's been…