RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books 2015/1981 Marvel Desktop Wallpaper Calendar

Andertoons.com:

• Did you know calendars repeat occasionally? There’s a 28 year cycle wherein certain years will begin on the same day of the week as other years. (There’s a more detailed explanation here.) For example, 2015 has the same days and dates as the years 2009, 1998, 1987, 1981, 1970, etc… Neat, huh?
  
  So while there’s a lot of nice 2015 calendars out there, I’m going a little old school and using this 1981 Marvel Comics calendar instead.

That calendar had (and has again!) some really nice pages by Byrne, Frank Miller, Michael Golden, Layton and the like. There was a period I was trying to find one a few years ago (they show up periodically on ebay), my roommate Karl had one when we were freshmen in college in 1981-1982.

Definitely worthy of bringing back into action for 2015!

I was just looking on Ebay, and didn't see the 1981 calendar.

But this listed 2012 calendar had a really nice Arthur Adams page!

That is an art adams pretender-- Nick Bradshaw.

An updated link that shows every page of the 1981 Marvel calandar. Further proof that the 1970's and 1980's was arguably the best period ever in comics history, not only for a remarkable assembly of talent, for the fun-factor in that era, but also an era of beautifully packaged art portfolios, posters and limited edition pints.
That this calendar definitely reflects.

http://timswitalski.blogspot.com/2015/01/marvel-1981-calendar.html

Art Adams! Big fan.

I'm hard pressed to think of anything by Arthur Adams I haven't liked.

Related to calandars or calandar-like decorative pin-up pages, I loved his wraparound cover on the 1993 MARVEL HOLIDAY SPECIAL. It was later shrunk down and used as the cover on a later MARVEL HOLIDAY MAGAZINE. Shrunk down to one page instead of a wraparound, you can actually see the image better as one page.
Marvel could re-use this page and others such as the above images in a new Marvel calendar.
Or as a Marvel Christmas card.
Or as a poster.
Any would work for me.

I also really like this Arthur Adams house ad for SHOWCASE 93 (that ran in CONGORILLA issue 3, of a four-issue series). I'm still tempted to take it to a print shop and blow it up to 11" X 17" size.
https://comiconlinefree.net/congorilla/issue-3/34


Oddly, it wasn't used as a cover in the actual series. I think it may have run as a back cover.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=110041