Great Moments in Comics History: Marvel Swimsuit Special 1992

Posted on 06/09/11 at 9:00 AM in Articles by Conor Kilpatrick 45 Comments

 

Apparently, there's a body waxer on staff at Avengers Mansion.

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  1. vadamowens vadamowens says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:04 am

    The Cap bottoms are the best!

  2. stuclach stuclach says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:04 am

    I love that Iron Man is wearing swimming trunks over his armor.  That makes sense.

  3. Troy says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:10 am

    If there is a waxer on staff then Tigra keeps him REAL busy. Hard to keepa good Brazilian like in that form….

  4. ericmci ericmci says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:17 am

    Stulach- Those aren’t swimtrunks

    Those are Jams.

     

  5. supertrackmonkey supertrackmonkey says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:19 am

    Is IronMan wearing red boardshorts?

  6. PozrDu PozrDu says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:30 am

    Tigra’s actually wearing more in swinsuit than she normally wears.

  7. MisterJ says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Two things:  1)Should I know who yhe ‘Wacos’ are, and 2)The teams are a bunch of strong guys and Cap on yhe left and a bunch of regular guys and Iron Man, this is not parity.

  8. stuclach stuclach says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:34 am

    @ericmci  Even better!

  9. JesTr JesTr says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:37 am

    Star Spangled speedos WTF!?! Hahahaha!

  10. JoshSHill JoshSHill says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:40 am

    Now that I’ve seen Cap, Hawkeye and US Agent in nothing but mask and bathers, I’m forced to conceded that those masks look an awful lot like bondage masks. No?

  11. BC1 BC1 says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:43 am

    God, I remember the house ads for this.  My neighbor’s copy came to the house in a brown paper bag…

  12. el355 says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:48 am

    This take me waaaaaaay back.  I once had a She-Hulk “muscle beach” poster by Joe Jukos back in high school. 

  13. Bryce31 Bryce31 says:
    June 9, 2011 at 10:13 am

    Why is Tigra there? Cats hate water.

  14. TheNextChampion TheNextChampion says:
    June 9, 2011 at 10:15 am

    Is that USAgent behind Mockingbird?

    Also, I love pennants thanks to the Simpsons.

  15. Heroville Heroville says:
    June 9, 2011 at 10:17 am

    @Bryce31  Not tigers, they swim all the time.

  16. Bryce31 Bryce31 says:
    June 9, 2011 at 10:30 am

    @heroville

    Oh. Well I’ll shut up then.

    Whos the guy between US agent and Black Widow?

  17. MisterJ says:
    June 9, 2011 at 10:36 am

    @Bryce31  I was wondering that myself.  I am guessing Wonder Man, but without the glasses, I dunno.

  18. Radmobile Radmobile says:
    June 9, 2011 at 10:40 am

    I had the ’93 issue. The one with Rogue on the cover.

    Punisher basically wore just a little skull logo over his business.

  19. MountNJ says:
    June 9, 2011 at 10:48 am

    1. These swimsuit issues ran for 5 years?!?! Wow.

    2. Is this a Rob Liefeld drawing? There is a lot of missing feet.

  20. Wolfdog Wolfdog says:
    June 9, 2011 at 11:07 am

    I imagine Thor ran into Ron Jon’s and asked for the ‘hammer hammock’ trunks.

  21. ActualButt ActualButt says:
    June 9, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Thor’s trunks must have been forged by the Allfather himself, otherwise Mjolnir would be to Thor as the dog is to the Coppertone kid.

  22. MikeFarley says:
    June 9, 2011 at 11:47 am

    @MisterJ  “Wacos” was the nickname for the West Coast Avengers

  23. justincresswell justincresswell says:
    June 9, 2011 at 11:47 am

    Tigra’s suit has a hole for her tail. Again, it has a hole in her suit through which her tail pokes. 

  24. BizDaddy BizDaddy says:
    June 9, 2011 at 11:59 am

    Thor, Hercules, and She-Hulk on the same side?

    I imagine the teams were chosen like in that episode of “Saved by the Bell” where Zack made up the teams and then Mr. Belding switched captains so that Zack got the team chosen for Slayter and Slayter got the ringers chosen by Zack. 

    (except in this case replace Zack with Iron Man and Slayter with Capatin America)

  25. wangman31888 wangman31888 says:
    June 9, 2011 at 12:04 pm

    hahaha it’s okay to wear a man thong at Avengers mansion, but god forbid that u take off the mask

  26. finbarbat finbarbat says:
    June 9, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    I’m pretty sure I rubbed one out to this in ’92.

  27. brassai2003 brassai2003 says:
    June 9, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    Thor’s dangling Mjolnir is quite impressive.

  28. JoshSHill JoshSHill says:
    June 9, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    If you want to know who everyone is, click on the image to embiggen and read the little blurb down the bottom.

  29. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:
    June 9, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    @TheNextChampion  Yes.

    @Bryce31  Wonder Man.

    @MisterJ  @BizDaddy  It’s the Avengers vs. the West Coast Avengers.

  30. LadyTartan LadyTartan says:
    June 9, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    The Wasp’s swim suit does not look practical in the least

  31. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:
    June 9, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    Does anyone remember the X-Men Beach Party trading cards, which has a pervy image of Jubilee rubbing suntan lotion on Prof. X’s head?

  32. ccarney ccarney says:
    June 9, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    Loooks like a swingers party in the ’70′s

  33. clintaa says:
    June 9, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    if the 52nd number 1 isn’t DC’s version of this I’m done!

  34. BuckyCap BuckyCap says:
    June 9, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    I used to have a X-men swimming party poster drawn by Jim Lee. Memories :)

  35. RaceMcCloud RaceMcCloud says:
    June 9, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    Oooohhh… the “great” in the title is ironic! These posts make a LOT more sense now. Whew!

  36. msarsur msarsur says:
    June 9, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    Okay, what’s up with Sersi’s top? The only way it doesn’t reveal everything in there is if it’s magic…

  37. WheelHands WheelHands says:
    June 9, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    @BuckyCap: I had that too! With Jubilee riding Beast off the diving board! Ridiculous.

    This is also ridiculous. Why is this even a thing?  

  38. patio patio says:
    June 9, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    “Paul Ryan designing for the Van Dyne cruise wear line.” 

    Very nice. I wonder what the ticket price is for a cruise to the Savage Land. 

  39. Jeff Reid JeffR (@JeffRReid) says:
    June 9, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    It seems that DC’s new edict of making everyone wear pants was not in place in 1992′s Marvel offices.

  40. queenrikki queenrikki says:
    June 9, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    So much love for the goofiness of this.

  41. MisterJ says:
    June 9, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    @MikeFarley  @conor  Thanks for the info!  I would have never guess that ‘WACOs’ is an acronym for West Coast Avengers.  Mostly because it makes no sense.

  42. JudgmentalSteve JudgmentalSteve says:
    June 9, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    I think Iron Man’s a never-nude.

  43. minithin minithin says:
    June 9, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    @ericmci   hi-5!  “jams”

  44. edward says:
    June 9, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    ha ha. Tony’s like the fat kid at school that keeps his shirt on during the swimming carnival.

  45. JohnVFerrigno JohnVFerrigno says:
    June 9, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    You KNOW there’s at least one person looking at this picture and touching themselves right now.

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