50th Birthday Bash #2: Avengers 2012 Birthday Card With Trading Cards

Today's comic book related birthday card is also movie related for it has the Avengers drawn as their movie counterparts. The front cover has Captain America, Iron Man and Thor (Hulk is noticeably absent) with the text "Happy birthday to a kid with amazing powers, impressive strength, and super skills!":

Attached to the front of the birthday card are four trading cards featuring the Avengers (Hulk actually gets one too):

 

The back of the trading cards gives the powers and abilities of the Avengers:

The inside of the Avengers 2012 birthday card has the text "Have you thought about joining S.H.I.E.L.D.?":

The back shows that the original price was $3.49 in the USA and $4.49 in Canada:

I picked up the Avengers 2012 birthday card with trading cards for $1.05 and it came with a blue envelope that is covered partially with stars.

50th Birthday Bash #1: Thor 2011 Pop Up Birthday Card

February 13th not only falls on Friday in 2015 but it is also my fiftieth natal anniversary. I picked up some comic book related birthday cards a few weeks ago and I will be posting them here over the next several days.

To kick off my 50th birthday bash, I decided to showcase the Thor 2011 pop up birthday card. On the front is the god of thunder with "Only one as worthy as you deserves a birthday as awesome as this!" written on the bottom:

The inside is a two page spread of Thor flying with his left arm holding his hammer that serves as the pop up. The text reads "Hope your day is a royal adventure filled with fearless feats of fun! Happy Birthday":

The back shows that the Thor 2011 pop up birthday card was made by Hallmark and originally sold for $2.99 in the U.S.A. ($3.99 in Canada):

I actually picked this card up for ninety cents.

Big Changes At DC Comics This June Includes New Look and Series For Starfire

Very interesting news at DC Reveals Major Changes, New Direction For Comic Book Line for the new 52 brand will no longer be used starting in June. Sure, the rebooted DC Universe will stay but stories will play a bigger part. There will be twenty-four new first issues joining twenty-five existing titles. Included in the new titles will be Black Canary, Harley Quinn/Power Girl and Starfire, who gets a new look:

There will be more humor titles including Bizarro, Bat-Mite and Prez. Fans of grittier comics will still find plenty to read including a revamped John Constantine series titled Constantine: The Hellblazer (in related news his tv series has yet to be renewed) plus Section Eight, which will have characters from the Hitman series. Naturally, a new Justice League of America series will be launched. Earth 2 is one of several titles getting revamped and the new series will be Earth 2: Society (I hope this means that the Justice Society is returning in one form or another).

First Look at Brandon Routh In Atom's Costume

Brandon Routh's Atom suit on The CW's Arrow revealed is pretty cool considering it's more armor-like instead of the traditional fabric costume:

He will don the suit in the February 25th episode.

Full Daredevil Trailer From Netflix

You can watch the Full Daredevil Trailer Released here. It looks interesting but I will not be watching the series since I don't have access to Netflix.

Master of Kung-Fu gets New Mini-Series And World

According to Shang-Chi Gets New Series & New World in 'Master of Kung-Fu', is set in a Battleworld, which merges worlds and sets up the events in Marvel's upcoming Secret Wars event. This new Shang-Chi will be the offspring of an ancient sorcerer Zu instead of Fu Manchu. He will be living in "K’un Lun, a land where the study of martial arts reigns supreme". Other familiar Marvel characters that will appear include Rand-Kai (Danny Rand aka Iron Fist), Kitty/Kitten and Lockheed, Caliban, Cypher, Wolfsbane/Rahne, Marrow, Typhus (Typhoid Mary), and Red Sai (Elektra). Francesco Francavilla provides the covers for this Master of Kung-Fu mini-series while the story was written by Haden Blackman and illustrated by Dalibor Talajic.

This might be fun just for the different twist on Shang-Chi.

Superman's New Costume By John Romita Jr

Here is John Romita Jr.'s redesign of Superman's costume according to Blastr:

What's up with the fingerless gloves?

Women Wednesday: The New All Female Ghostbusters

Sony is remaking Ghostbusters with four females as the main characters. The cast includes Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon.