Fun connections with random old comics

[a_big_apple]

My boss gave me a big bag full of old comics the other day; she'd been planning to cut them up for collage, but I said I'd take them off her hands without mangling them, lol. Anyway, as I was looking through, I found two interesting things. The first was this ad, from a 1991 Captain America:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb197/a-big-apple/battletoadsad.jpg

I think it's cool to see a reference to TMNT that's pretty subtle, and know that just about everyone who saw this ad would know what they were talking about. It reminds me of how big a thing TMNT was at that time.

The other thing I found was from issue 369 of The Amazing SpiderMan, November '92. There was a dude on the cover who caught my eye, and I just thought I'd stick a little comparison picture up here for you all:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb197/a-big-apple/shellectro.jpg

Shellectro is totally taking a page out of this dude's book! Haha! Is the Reality Check storyline, with the Super Turtles, something that happened in the Mirage comics? If it is, can anyone scan a pic of the Mirage Shellectro? I'm curious.

[MrPliggins]

Haha. As a big comic book reader in the early 90s, I remember this stuff vividly. Yeah, Electro is one of Spider-man's main villains. He's been copied many times over. There also used to be a cool painted ad for TMNT 1 NES, and also one where Raphael was coming out of the sewer.

[a_big_apple]

Cool, I didn't know Electro was a recurring guy. Probably one of those things I would have known if I actually read the comic, instead of just liking Spidey a lot but only reading whichever ones happen to come my way. :)

[odupianist]

If you like Spidey, buy the Ultimate Guide for Spiderman. Good stuff. I loved Battletoads, never really saw it as a reference to TMNT, but I was a kid, what did I know lol. Any one ever play Solar Jetman? That was a decent game.