Marvel Value Stamps: A Visual History

by Marvel Comics

Hardcover, 2023

Status

Available

Publication

Abrams ComicArts (2023), 400 pages

Description

The story of the most inspired comic book promotional campaign of all time, collected here for the first time   In 1974, Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee devised an ingenious promotional campaign--Marvel Value Stamps, which appeared on the letters pages of their monthly comics. Readers could cut out all 100 of these super hero and super villain stamps and place them in a special mail-order booklet. Once complete, these stamp books could then be redeemed for special discounts and exclusive merchandise. The program was so successful, a second set was released in 1975. And now, for the first time, these original stamp books, stamps, and all of the surrounding ephemera and source material are collected into one must-have volume for collectors and fans, along with text from Marvel Comics historian Roy Thomas.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2023

Physical description

400 p.; 9 inches

ISBN

1419743449 / 9781419743443
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