{"id":3218,"date":"2004-08-26T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T17:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2004-08-26T13:47:42","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T17:47:42","slug":"marvel_swimsuit_special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/marvel_swimsuit_special\/","title":{"rendered":"marvel swimsuit special"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Baio<\/a> linked to Video game gals take it off for Playboy<\/a> yesterday and asked, “what’s next, the Ladies of Marvel Comics?”
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\nIt’s not quite the same thing, but people who were comic book nerds in the early 90s might remember that Marvel did actually publish special swimsuit issues once a year from 91 through 95. The first was called Marvel Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (cause, you know<\/a>) but subsequent editions were called the Marvel Swimsuit Special. I have copies of Illustrated and Swimsuit Special 92 in my old room back at my mom’s house and remember them fondly, they were totally tongue-in-cheek, complete with cheesy ads starring your favorite characters, like Wolverine shilling for Macho Deodorant<\/a>. The commentary was mostly funny and the art was great (even though this was right about the time that Rob Liefeld<\/a>‘s distorted anatomy style was taking off).
\nYou can see covers from 91 to 93 on SpiderFan.org<\/a>. Rogue was on the covers of both 93 and 94, sharing the second one (the “Mad for Madripoor!” issue) with Gambit; you can see those covers on this French Rogue fansite<\/a>, which is where I got the Brothers Hildebrandt<\/a> illustration of Rogue and Gambit on an alien beach you see above.
\nRogue’s Swimsuit Pinup Page<\/a> has a bunch of pictures of scantily clad X-Men characters of the female persuasion, some of which come from Swimsuit Special issues; the best ones are Storm and Kitty Pryde in bikinis<\/a>, Rogue diving off a waterfall<\/a>, Jean Grey in a pond<\/a>, Domino and Cable (!!!) in bikinis<\/a>, Rachel Summers with the Phoenix Force<\/a> and hanging out with demons<\/a>, and finally a spread of the X-Men ladies lounging under a waterfall<\/a>.
\nAlas, the only group pinup I could find online of Marvel men is a small scan of Wolverine, The Thing, Beast and The Hulk in trunks<\/a>,though I must say it was one of my favorites when I got the magazine. Immortal Thor.net’s Professional Artwork page<\/a> has scans from all five Swimsuit issues; my favorites are Thor’s Flic disposable razor ad<\/a>, beach bum Thor<\/a> and Enchantress doing a L’il Kim impression<\/a> before there even was a L’il Kim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Baio linked to Video game gals take it off for Playboy yesterday and asked, “what’s next, the Ladies of Marvel Comics?” It’s not quite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}