I have two Graffiti Designs superhero logo T-Shirts -- a Dardevil one, and Superboy (S-shield on a black shirt) one -- which I sometimes wear to the gym when I work out. In that capacity, they work out pretty well. Logo T-Shirts in general are fairly inoffensive. It's the more bizarre images that I'd be embarrassed to walk around in.

That Wolverine/Venom shirt being a good example.
Patrick | 02.05.07 - 1:36 am | #

Right now, I only have an old-school, black and gray Batman shirt that I wear when I feel like being the Dark Knight of household chores.

My favorite, though, was a shirt I picked up at SDCC the year Love & Rockets hit their 10 year anniversary. It's a great white on black tshirt showing a widescreen shot of Hopey playing with her band. I still have it packed away somewhere.

It was that or my old Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems shirt. Sigh. To be young and nerdly again.
Mathew | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 1:44 am | #

Too many.

-The Tick (animated)
-Amazing Spider-Man (this one is cool, i wear it a lot)
-Superman of Earth-2 logo (the black background symbol, like the Fleisher cartoons)
-Flash logo
-90s Xmen and Ditko Spiderman (i wear these at the gym because theyre huuuuge)

I hope that's it. Excuse me while I go jump off a bridge.
Knox | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 3:00 am | #

I've had a handful. The Flaming Carrot one was good. The double sided Groo shirt was always fun. The Craig Russell drawn Sandman shirt is nice. But my favourite is a Superman t-shirt based on Joe Shuster's art. This one. There's a logo on the back for "DC Original Retrogear", so I always wondered if there was a series of them. I'd have liked a nice Dick Sprang style Batman. I was also always tempted by the re-release of the 1960s Marvel t-shirts by Jack Kirby a few years ago, especially the double-sided Hulk and Thing designs, but managed to resist.
Bob | 02.05.07 - 4:39 am | #

I remember a T-shirt of Wolverine and the "Mr. Fixit" Hulk wearing tuxedos (from an early Madripoor-era issue of Wolverine) with the caption "Only their mother can tell them apart." I can only guess Schwarzenegger and Devito's "Twins" was still a recent and fond enough memory for some...

My favorite though was a t-shirt of Guardian from Alpha Flight that was released following his return from the dead, that had the triumphant caption "He's Back!" Which John Byrne reversed, oh, let's see, THE VERY NEXT ISSUE. So apparently, Marvel was more than willing to keep it's licensors in the dark (I don't think their t-shirts were produced in-house) and let them take a financial hit by producing a shirt they had to know would be obsolete in hours...

Currently, Target has displays of various retro pop culture t-shirts in their stores, including some comic related ones. A couple of months ago, there was a "Captain America for President" one, with the cover of CAP #250.

Sigh. Yes, I bought it...
Chris Keels | Email | 02.05.07 - 5:04 am | #

The one that I can't believe I keep wearing is the surprisingly durable "Tekno Comics" logo shirt I got as a freebie O So Long Ago. I think I even have the promo video around here still, too.

The shirt I was happiest to purchase, though, was the Lightning Bolt "Mage" shirt. I wore through my "What Color IS Magic?" shirt, and loved it much, but there was nothing like finally getting to feel just like a real Kevin Matchstick.
M. A. Masterson | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 5:11 am | #

I have a short with Green Lantern's symbol on it. I have yet to meet an adult who has any idea what it is, thought a few 4-year-olds have known.
Chance | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 5:26 am | #

i worked for a design studio that had Comic Images as a client, so we designed a lot of marvel, dark horse, and mtv shirts.

to this day, when i see a Tick shirt, is was one designed by me. weird that people still have them.

Marvel used to give us some of the ugliest art possible to make shirts from. sometimes we'd send them even more grotesque ideas just so they'd reject them!
rob | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 5:26 am | #

i have my sights set on an umbrella corporation, resident evil t-shirt, but my local can't seem to get it in stock. oh, how i pine for it.

i made my own stan lee era x-men shirt with wolvie, nightcrawler, jean, cyclops, storm and colussus, all facing their backs to you, with the block-letter x-men logo. im pretty happy with it, i must say.
ryan | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 5:53 am | #

Oh man, too many.
4 superman shirts (classic, bizarro, classic on black shirt, fleisher style)
Green Lantern logo
Flash logo
Daredevil black w/ the 2 red "D's"
Daredevil classic yellow .. yeah it's a horrible shirt.
cbldf Hellboy shirt
cbldf Kolchaka fancy froglin shirt ("I am wearing little pants to hide my genitals. It is the law!")
A Kirby-style Thor shirt (I had to buy it ... I mean ... thor!)

When I was a younger lad than I am now I used to have a shirt with the McFarlane Spider-Man #1 cover on it. I probably still have it somewhere at the bottom of a drawer. The last time I saw it I remember it was in sorry looking shape.

Also, because I'm a sucker for free stuff, I have a Hulk shirt that is white with purple trim around the neck and arms. It's...disgusting.
dan | Email | 02.05.07 - 6:12 am | #

Hey, an Arnim Zola shirt!!!!

Now I'd wear one of those!








.....uh,........well, not in public.
Richard Marcej | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 6:39 am | #

I had a Dalgoda long-sleeve henley. Supposedly very limited run, came with a certificate, etc.

Does anyone even remember Dalgoda anymore?
Dave O | 02.05.07 - 6:55 am | #

Oh wait. I also have a Madman exclamation bolt (black), and a classic Superman logo. I sincerely hope that's it. I never thought i'd see the day that the number of comic shirts I have would eclipse the rock shirts, but there ya go.
Knox | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 6:59 am | #

I'll take that Elektra shirt in medium, please, thank you!
Spencer Carnage | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 6:59 am | #

I've got a glow in the dark Green Lantern logo.

My wife and I have noticed that Green Lantern shirts seem to be by far the most common super hero shirt that we see at GenCon each year.
Aaron | Email | 02.05.07 - 7:03 am | #

Oddly, I was just thinking about Dalgoda the other day. He does appear to largely be forgotten... he doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry.

And I have no longer have any comics shirts, though in the past I had a Flash logo tee and one of the Moy/Carani Legion tees.
John | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 7:29 am | #

No t-shirts really, but I do have a jacket with embroidered Justice League patches. I know it was mass-produced and sold in stores, yet I've never seen anyone else with one.
Dorian | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 7:49 am | #

I have that Sandman 'How would you feel about life if Death was your sister' shirt, but I haven't worn it in years.

When I was little I had a shirt where the whole front of it looked like a blue business suit being torn open by two hands to reveal the Superman costume underneath.
Matthew E | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 7:49 am | #

yesterday I got this impossible urge to find a Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) T shirt, designed like his costume were the bottom is light blue , and up top is the darker blue scarab part. Do you know if such a thing exists ?
Cheddar Bob | Email | 02.05.07 - 8:32 am | #

Shockingly I have two. They're those modern vintage t-shirts. New but printed to look old.

One is Batman and Bruce Wayne, with Bruce's hand on his chin. And it says Billionaire Playboy. Relegated to weekends at home or under sweaters.

The other is a classic looking Penguin T-shirt. Kind of a reddish, orangey pink colour. And I'm wearing it right now under my collared shirt because it is -39 degrees celcius with the windchill today.
joncormier | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 8:44 am | #

I always wanted (but never had) that Hulk t-shirt that said "Here comes the Hulk!" on the front of the shirt, and the Hulk charging at you...

And on the back of the shirt, it said "There goes the Hulk!" and showed the back of the Hulk charging away from you...

....pulling a toy duck on wheels.

Sheer. Brilliance.
Bully | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 8:52 am | #

Oh, sorry, wait, it was a toy bunny.
Bully | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 8:57 am | #

You've seen my GrimJack T-shirt. (And, yes, the Munden's Bar baseball cap.) I think that's the only comics-apparel I currently own (though I used to have a Batman logo shirt. And an "I voted for Bill & Opus" shirt that I wish I still had).
tomthedog | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 9:38 am | #

Back in yonder days, I had one of the Flaming Carrot shirts. FC was sliding down a rope, holding a buxom woman as gangsters shot at them. The caption: "Fortune Favors the Bold." (The other FC shirt, "Wild Shall the Wild Remain!" had a less groovy design, which I can't remember.)

The weirdest logo shirt has to be for Thor. Six light blue dots on a dark blue shirt? Que? Even I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be when I first saw it, and I am such that if you cut me, I bleed nerd.

Did they ever produce a t-shirt for Shadowman? The guy's costume was basically a t-shirt anyway.

How about a Phantom Stranger shirt: a fake tuxedo shirt with a "gold medallion" in the middle? Okay, maybe not.

The one I'd love is a shirt with a big reproduction of the old "Howard the Duck for President" logo on it. "Get Down, America! Howard the Duck in '76!" Hells yeah!
Harvey Jerkwater | Email | 02.05.07 - 9:51 am | #

Once upon a time I had regularly wore a Planetary shirt featuring the three main characters and the book's regular logo. A few years ago, my mother gave me a generic Spider-man shirt for Christmas that's now at the back of my closet. Oh, and back in the day, I bought an authentically styled "Magneto was Right" shirt off of a cafepress seller. That's right, authentically styled, as opposed to the one using Jim Lee art officially sold by (I assume) Marvel via Hot Topic. Unfortunately, like all those Micah Wright Cafepress shirts, the Magneto one wore out fairly quickly.


I would kill for a "Cerebus for Dictator" shirt and that Cap #250 shirt sounds lovely.

Question for Mike or anyone else: given how comic nerds are traditionally... generously proportioned, why is it so hard to find comics shirts in sizes above XXL?
Joe Gualtieri | Email | 02.05.07 - 10:12 am | #

I have the Green Lantern logo shirt, and an Achewood "Here comes a special boy" shirt.

I'd buy a t-shirt that looked like the top half of Plas' uniform. And maybe a transmet happy mutant logo.
Frank | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 10:21 am | #

I used to sport:

-Reid Fleming: World's Toughest Milkman
-Milk & Cheese
-Madman (Glow-in-the-Dark!)
-Murder Family - from DORK! which I had to stop wearing when I started working in public schools

I've had various Batman and Spiderman shirts but the only one I still have is a Superman shirt that I use for my fallback Halloween costume of Clark Kent turning into Superman (wear a suit, pin the shirt open to reveal the S logo).
philip | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 11:09 am | #

I had a lot of comics posters but very few shirts. The only one of the shirts I still have is my Watchmen shirt with all of the main characters standing in the "super-team pose".

It's been relegated to the yardwork pile but it's still in reasonably good shape.
Brian Cooksey | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 11:42 am | #

I wore my Milk & Cheese 'Gin makes a man mean' shirt until it plain wore through.

The only ones I have at the moment are a bootleg Red Son Superman symbol t-shirt where the printing could probably deflect bullets, and the Reverse Flash logo.

Because, hey, everybody loves the Reverse Flash.
Derooftrouser | 02.05.07 - 11:43 am | #

I have that "I Survived Jaka's Story" shirt. Sim released that just as the Cirinists burst in to Pud's Tavern in the monthly book, and Pud was KILLED. Dave was letting us know the title character wouldn't be killed before the end of this sequence. Nice of him. It was cruel. I loved it.
drzonker | 02.05.07 - 11:54 am | #

Got various bootleg Calvin and Hobbes shirts, though most of them now thrown away, several shirts of local Dutch comic cons, two fabolous furry freak brothers shirts plus one kingdom come one.

Yes, I don't know why I got that one either.
Martin Wisse | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 12:05 pm | #

Wearing that shirt shows that you've accepted Wolverine as your personal saviour.

Why won't you accept Wolverine into your heart, Mike?
Jones, one of the Jones boys | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 12:34 pm | #

Back in my late high school years ('92-'94) I had a couple of friends who worked in a silk-screening shop, where we would make our own custom Sandman, Hellblazer and other Vertigo-themed t-shirts. They were great to wear especially when I moved away to college, where I was presumably the only one in the city who had those particular designs in shirt form.
steve from canada | Email | 02.05.07 - 12:38 pm | #

I used to have a Dr. Blasphemy shirt (from Rick Veitch's "Bratpack" miniseries). It was black, with a

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running down the front.
mrjeff | 02.05.07 - 1:08 pm | #

I hunted long and hard while in college to find my Reverse-Flash t-shirt, which remains my favorite geek shirt of all time.

The craziest one I ever had was a front and back double image of Venom's face, half exposed with the symbiote burst off of him, drawn by Erik Larsen.
Luke | Email | 02.05.07 - 1:09 pm | #

I worked at Penthouse Comix back in the mid 90's and we produced a black tee-shirt with the logo in white and a big red zapf dingbat "x" at the end of comix.
I got 5 of them in XL when they came into the studio, I gave one to my mom (of all people) and have kept the other 4 on hangers in my closet, only worn once, since I left.
Gary Esposito | Email | 02.05.07 - 2:17 pm | #

I currently have a Green Lantern logo shirt, a Superman logo shirt, a Comic Geek Speak convention tour shirt, an Avengers long-sleeve thermally kinda shirt, a Buzzboy Diner shirt, and a Quebec t-shirt with the fleur-de-lis in the place of the "S" in the Superman shield, if that counts. Jeez, didn't realize I had that many!

At various points in the past, I used to have an awesome Tintin shirt I got in London, the old Beanworld shirt Graphitti used to sell (used to confuse the hell outta people with that one), a Spidey shirt or two, an FF logo shirt, a Flash logo (around the time of the TV show), a Plastic Man shirt (Alex Toth illo on that), and the Mage lightning bolt. My wife used to have shirts of Strangers in Paradise and Action Girl, too. We've been a very nerdy house over the years.
Bill D. | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 2:48 pm | #

I ALSO forgot my "Smallville Athletic Department" tshirt.
Knox | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 3:42 pm | #

i'm sure i had some comic related clothes back in the day, but i'm most proud of the official knock-off Wayne's World hat that I still have kicking around in the closet at my parents place.
SHAAAA-WING!!
kev | 02.05.07 - 4:12 pm | #

In the 7th grade (when Bat-mania was sweeping the nation) I had a nifty looking Joker shirt drawn by Brian Bolland. I also have a Buddy Bradley "What's the use?" shirt I haven't worn (or even seen, come to think of it) in years and a CBLDF Milk & Cheese shirt I bought partially because it was a nice shirt and partially because it was a good cause. Oh, and apparently they used to have a t shirt shop where my grandparents lived because every year for Xmas and birthdays I'd get an ugly superhero t shirt of a character I didn't even like that much. No offense to the folks who ran the place, but I'm kinda glad it cloed down.
Eric L | 02.05.07 - 4:26 pm | #

I love my Cap's Kooky Quartet t-shirt. Also got Iceman and Silver Surfer tees.

I'd wear a Sandman shirt, but I don't want any friggin' Goths talking to me.
Daniel85 | Email | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 5:23 pm | #

maybe some version of Superboy punched them so hard they became dogs?
Evilbeard | 02.05.07 - 9:38 pm | #

I wish all Snapper's shirts in Hourman were real. Some of them were awesome.

Although, as someone who wears women's tees, I would mostly be happy if there were more than about four designs for the ladies.
Carrie | Homepage | 02.05.07 - 10:15 pm | #

Hey, I'm late!

I'm wearing my Godland t-shirt right now. Then there's the Jeffery Brown t-shit I bought from the man himself at APE. I had a Love & Rockets shirt with a punk rock looking Maggie on it. I eventually had to stop wearing it because people thought the shirt sported an image of Michael Jackson.

I'm jealous of my friend and former blogger Sean Maher's "Population Control" t-shirt, straight from Sleeper.
Ian Brill | Email | Homepage | 02.06.07 - 1:11 am | #

Hey Cheddar Bob- A buddy made me a Blue Beetle shirt once. He scanned panels from JLI and had someone screen them onto a tshirt. That's the only Ted Kord shirt I've seen.
Knox | Homepage | 02.06.07 - 2:57 am | #

Hey, Frank -- many moons ago on the Warren Ellis Forum, Darick Robertson sold shirts with the Happy Mutant logo on the front. not sure how many were made, but I was lucky enough to cop one.
Mark Hale | Homepage | 02.06.07 - 8:30 am | #

I have far too many comic related t-shirts. This is in part, I'm sure, because I never throw anything away until it's completely worn out, and because I work one evening a week in a comic shop (on New Comic Day, of course). They're all black shirts unless noted ...

Batman distressed yellow logo
Batman glow-in-the-dark
Batman "Metallix" (shiny black Year One bat on black ... came out just last week)
Batman "Year One" bat on gray (this one's got holes in it ...)
Green Lantern (green, long-sleeved)
Madman yellow on black, heavily washed like at the end of "Jay & Silent Bob"
Madman red on white (long sleeved; fits funny so I rarely wear it)
Mage lightning bolt
"Planet Krypton" logo from Kingdom Come (white logo on black)
white Superman shield on black
Spider-man black costume (not Venom, no drool.)
Shazam (yellow bolt on red)
Ultimate Spider-Man crawling
Captain America uniform shirt (has a seam across the chest, which bugs me, so I very rarely wear it ...)
Phoney Bone's star
Usagi Yojimbo logo
orange shirt that says "INMATE" across the back ... and "Arkham Asylum" on the front -- that one always gets comments
Charlie Brown's black zigzag on a yellow shirt

I only buy logo t-shirts. My sister gave me the "Ultimate Spider-Man" one.
Now that I've made this list, I realise I have a lot of Batman shirts, and a lot of DC shirts ... and I'm not much of a DC reader. I guess Marvel doesn't make enough good logo shirts.


wow, that was a long comment.
Salamurai | Email | 02.06.07 - 7:12 pm | #

I have a bunch of San Diego Comic-Con T-shirts. I try to buy one every year, though that's not always possible. I also have a cool Graphitti Designs X-Men shirt in red with the Bruce Timm art from the Essential Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1, and the Alex Ross T-shirt of Vampire George W. Bush biting the neck of the Statue of Liberty, which I wear to all political functions. I used ot have (and believe I kept) a Cerebus for Dictator shirt somewhere, because it was far too cool to EVER get rid of.
Tom McLean | Email | Homepage | 02.06.07 - 9:33 pm | #

Ya know, I have an astonishing amount of t-shirts, but I don't know if I have any comic book related shirts. I want to say I had a Flaming Carrot t-shirt once, but no idea what happened to it.

How about a Ranma 1/2 shirt? Does that count? Or is that anime? I have a white one that I wear to the gym that has Ranma-Chan, Akane & Shampoo all big breasty by the logo. I had another one that was black w/P-chan on it that I bought primarily because it was a *black* Ranma 1/2 t-shirt, and I mainly wear black Ts. I think an ex-girlfriend took that one.

Hey, do Underoos count? I had shitloads of those when I was a kid. Superman, Batman, Robin, even had the Aquaman t-shirt. And the Boba Fett one... that made you look nothing like Boba Fett...
g23 | Homepage | 02.07.07 - 7:39 am | #