New Family Portrait

My family took a new family picture this weekend and I thought you guys might enjoy it.

My Son in law is the Marvel character in the bunch.
My sons are with their girl friends.

Super-family.

Brian B

Four Sided Card

A paper toy I made featuring some of Brian A's art work from Batman: Absolution.

Batman On Board

My son and I were cleaning out the garage this past week to make room for his Gold's Gym home version and I found some Bat-items that I had forgotten about.

I found two signs that were made in the "Baby' On Board" style that was a fad in the mid 1980's.
(Although I saw a Baby's on Board sign on a car this past week!)
These hung on your rear or side windows by a little suction cup.

Here are the two I found.



These are well worn because they hung on the rear window of my Nisan pickup truck until it died. (Over 250,000 miles)
After the truck had given up they ghost they went in a box of things that were in the truck and then moved around until this past week.

I am sure I got these around the release of Batman in 1989.

Look pretty good hanging in Gotham.

So now they get placed where they belong. With the rest of my Bat-collection.

BatBots

This is from issue #6 of Batman Incorporated.
Art by Chris Burnham.

I really liked this issue and this panel in particular.
You could just feel the Batbots menacing presence so I thought I would give them some pacing movement. Like "Come on. Give us a reason to fight!".

1966 Bat-Sticker Set

This is the newest "Bat" item that I have added to my collection.
An unopened set of Bat-Stickers from 1966.

The stickers are 3 7/8 x 3 5/8 in size and there are five different stickers.
At least that is what the packaging says. I haven't opened it and I don't plan on opening them to see how many there really are.


The colors are still crazy bright. Day-glow colors do not have a long bright life so to speak.
They normally dull after a couple of years. So I am curious to how they are printed.
Since they are still in plastic it is hard to tell if they are silk screened or offset printed.

I would like to know what other colors are included in the set but I don't want to open the package, so it remains a mystery to me.

I only paid $6 dollars for them and a quick web-search shows that I did pretty well for that price.
Which means that I am kicking myself for not buying the other set that the guy had for sale. Doh!


It is nice to know you can still find some vintage Bat-related items for under $10 dollars.

I think it looks pretty good on the Bat-shelf!

Michael Keaton

Batman

From Batman Detective comics August 1977.