{"id":37431,"date":"2022-07-25T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=37431"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:05:12","slug":"marvel-in-the-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/marvel-in-the-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel in the '70s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, sculptor Paul Harding began a series of digital sculpts featuring Marvel characters the way they looked a half century ago. It was just for fun, but fans reacted well, and when Hasbro came to him to create some new head sculpts for <i>Marvel Legends<\/i>, it just made sense to turn those designs he'd spent so much time and effort on into plastic. Here are the comparisons:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardingArt\/status\/1360254884705153026\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/m70s_strange.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/yo\/drs2c_drsx.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yo\/art\/drs2c_drsx6.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardingArt\/status\/1394297307949113344\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/m70s_stark.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/yo\/ml1_20im.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/ml1_20im4.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardingArt\/status\/1389943674029715459\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/m70s_hulk.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"160\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/yo\/ml1_20hulk.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yo\/art\/ml1_20hulk3.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"160\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardingArt\/status\/1400615411633250306\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/m70s_cap.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"140\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/yo\/ml1_20cap.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yo\/art\/ml1_20cap3.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"140\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/hardingart.bsky.social\/post\/3m46nui6i2k2j\" target=bsky><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/m70s_hyp.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/yo\/smhml13_hh.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yo\/art\/smhml13_hh2.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/m70s_wong.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/yo\/hmlx_wbds.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yo\/art\/hmlx_wbds02.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Click on any of them to see more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #44 - Tony Stark &#038; Iron Monger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/minimate-mini-review-44-tony-stark-iron-monger\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #44 - Tony Stark &#038; Iron Monger<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Captain Action addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/captain-action-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Captain Action addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - July '16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/flippin-through-previews-july-16\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - July '16<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"X-Men Legends: House of X Omega Sentinel addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/x-men-legends-house-of-x-omega-sentinel-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">X-Men Legends: House of X Omega Sentinel addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Punisher Arcade addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/punisher-arcade-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Punisher Arcade addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, sculptor Paul Harding began a series of digital sculpts featuring Marvel characters the way they looked a half century ago. It was just for fun, but fans reacted well, and when Hasbro came to him to create &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/marvel-in-the-70s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8,25],"tags":[87,318,112,56,88,59],"class_list":["post-37431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-hasbro","category-marvel","tag-captain-america","tag-dr-strange","tag-hulk","tag-iron-man","tag-marvel-legends","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37431"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47083,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431\/revisions\/47083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}