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Here's Dave's take on Vampi called "Back From the Grave", a 17x24 number that was issued at the same time as another Vampirella poster in that size by Joe Jusko:

Here's mine, and it turned out to be newsstand AND in pretty nice shape! I'm still racking my brain as to where it came from, but it pretty much has to be from 7-11 or a supermarket, which are the only two places I got retail comics back then. Luckily, I got it early. No telltale spinner-rack spine tics in sight!

Definite collector value, and a lot of them aren't necessarily tied to a certain comic. The best example of this is the Stan Lee tribute in #41, which is widely collected. The women of John Romita Sr. cover on #111 made for an instant classic. The "Marvels" preview in #130 is a must for Alex Ross collectors, #14 for John Byrne (plus his pair of She-Hulk swimsuit covers), and the Jim Lee X-Men (#104) & McFarlane Spider-man (#90) covers are very popular. There are also about a half-dozen original Sergio Aragones Groo covers, usually Christmas themed, that fit nicely into two kinds of collections. Lastly the Marvel Masterpieces preview in #118 (with promo card) belongs in any serious 1990's Marvel trading card collection. Wish I'd had a crack at those quarter boxes.

Sadly, no, just a promo card (or two) for the cancelled 90's Topps set exist. A pair of sets like it were released in the early 2010s by Versicolor called "Bettie Page: The Private Collection" and those featured sketch cards. Imagine if only the Topps set been issued and Topps had then incorporated the then-very new idea of sketch cards into it. Hand drawn sketch cards from the likes of Dave Stevens would be Grail pieces, indeed. Here's another couple of Stevens "jam" posters, DV8 promo poster with Adam Hughes and Rocketeer with Dave Dorman:

I'm usually pretty good about remembering where I got most of my comics, but I can't remember for the life of me where I got my TMNT Adventures #1. It's from right before I had a regular subscription service. I did buy lots of newsstand comics back then, but I also made it to comic shops once in a while in the bigger city when visiting family. I can't even remember if it has the UPC or not. I'm also sure if I read it, it would've been way back then, and only once. I'm digging it out this weekend, so I'll find out what version and also how well I treated one of the earlier, personally purchased comics in my PC. Fingers crossed!

The presses ran on Marvel Age, but they were more often considered promotional material, not "real" comics, back when they were issued (a lot of them free with Diamond Previews from subscription services), so I think a lot of copies were discarded/destroyed before people finally realized there was collector value to them. Certainly most Darkhawk #1's got a bag and board at some point. The Marvel Age DH preview, not as much. I just dug this one out in keeping with the "these were ephemera" theme. I was able to pick up a closing LCS' Marvel Age stock about 10 years ago. None of them were bagged. This one made it through OK, but I think I have some more I bought in a unlabeled box and am hoping they're in better shape. Certainly the one I got from my sub service when it was new should be. I loved Marvel Age, and started to save them from about #20 on so I have a decent collection, although I missed plenty towards the end, which was about 10 years later, with #140 As a kid without a lot of money, they looked like comics, had actual comics sometimes, great covers usually, and were cheap! I really liked the annuals. They went all-out on those.

I have this Rocketeer movie print by Dave that I always loved because as much as I adore his Bettie Page, it's great to see his illustration of the basic character in the likeness of another great beauty, Jennifer Connelly, who starred as Jenny in the film.

Back when Mile High regularly had 1990's Marvel Super-Heroes issues for a buck or two, I'd sometimes add a couple to an order, just because they were a lot of comic pages for the money, and I did like the inventory stories, in these and in the bi-weekly Marvel Comics Presents. I think I bought 1-4 or so of MSH Volume 2 off the stands when new, but I quit after that. Anyway, M.H. had them bargain priced for a good while. I couldn't usually remember which ones I still needed, so I doubled up on some of them. I think I ended up with a full set. I was really hoping I had two copies of Issue 11, but no luck. I did get two of 10, which had a Ms. Marvel/Sabretooth cover and finally published their battle that would've been in Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 #24. Let's see what I ended up with the issue 11, and show off the somewhat risque cover. This is a new scan. I just got into the long white box with these in them thanks to this thread, and for the first time since a few years ago to get the Squirrel Girl intro issue (#8) to use in a trade

Here's a DC Poster I didn't see above. It's the "Tombstone" retail poster, approx 22x34. I think the image originally appeared as variant cover for Superman #75