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From award-winning Marvel Comics writer, editor, and historian Roy Thomas comes the complete story of Marvel Value Stamps, the classic 1970s comic-book promotion, collected in a single volume for the first time and featuring a cover by acclaimed artist Alex Ross.
In 1974, Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee devised an ingenious promotional campaign: Marvel Value Stamps, which appeared on the letters pages of Marvel's monthly comics. Readers could cut out and collect all 100 superhero and supervillain stamps, placing them in a special mail-order booklet. Once complete, the stamp books could be redeemed for special discounts and exclusive merchandise. The program proved so successful that a second set followed in 1975.
Marvel Value Stamps: A Visual History brings together full-color reproductions of these long-unavailable original stamp books and stamps, along with surrounding ephemera and source material, offering fans and collectors a fascinating look back at one of Marvel Comics' most memorable promotional campaigns.
Written with text and inside history from former Marvel editor in chief Roy Thomas, this 400-page, highly illustrated volume is an essential piece of Marvel history and a must-have for comic-book collectors and longtime Marvel fans.
Roy Thomas
Roy Thomas joined the Marvel Bullpen as a writer and editor under Stan Lee, scripting key runs of nearly every title of the time: Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Sub-Mariner, Thor, X-Men and more. He wrote the first 10 years of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan; and launched such series as Defenders, Iron Fist, Invaders and Warlock. At DC, he developed All-Star Squadron, Infinity Inc. and related titles, proving instrumental in reviving the Golden Age Justice Society of America. Thomas later became editor of Alter Ego, a magazine devoted to comic-book history, and co-scripted the sword-and-sorcery films Fire and Ice and Conan the Destroyer.
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