Wallpapers Wednesday : Marvel Official Wallpapers

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008, 12:00 amRoys0 comments

Finally found some time to look through the 1200+ wallpapers downloaded from Marvel’s official wallpaper archive. While I know that Marvel holds the copyrights to some of the coolest and most recognizable superheroes due to their movie tie-ins, there’s many other cool yet lesser known characters in their massive stable of superheroes (and supervillains) …

And zombies. I absolutely love zombies, especially zombified Wolverine

Most wallpapers feature household names like Captain America, The Hulk, Spiderman, Fantastic Four and Wolverine & the rest of the X-Men I believe all these heroes have their own major feature films with the sole exception of Captain America.

There’s some interesting images of these superheroes in their original costumes as shown on the covers of the first issues of the Fantastic Four, The Avengers, and Daredevil. And yes, that yellow tinman in The Avengers #1 IS Ironman.

While I’m absolutely devastated at the omission of my favourite Marvel villain Omega Red (and there’s no Blackheart in there either), at least several of the major villians are represented, notably Magneto, Venom, Dr Doom and Bullseye.

Some other interesting characters that I found while browsing these wallpapers include Black Panther who (concidentally?) looks like Batman, Deadpool, Moon Knight, Penance (vs Wolverine), Ronin (seen here battling Elektra), grotesque Man-Thing and some other characters in Annihilation : Conquest and Thunderbolts.

Marvel also publishes several series which have some beautiful characters like the supermodel superheroes in Heroes for Hire

I also like the character designs in series like Amazing Fantasy, Mystical Arcana and Daughters of Dragon.

UPDATE (12 Aug 2008) : Just identified the character on the left of the second wallpapers as Death’s Head 3.0 while reading up on Waffen SS ‘Totenkopf’ divisions.

I found the Marvel Illustrated series rather interesting, which are essentially comic versions of classics like the Greek epic The Iliad. I would love to get this one if a trade paperback exists