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Despite what you might be thinking, these aren’t sketches or detailed renderings pulled from some automotive comic book. They’re photos of a large art display at the Petersen Automotive Museum, where several classic cars have been painted to look as though they leapt straight off a comic book page

You probably can’t name the president who made the Transformers possible but you know every character by name. That’s how the 1980s toy industry worked. It didn’t sell products. It colonized the imagination of an entire generation of children whose parents spent money they didn’t necessarily have because the urgency felt medical. Some of these…