Now back in print and timed for its 50th anniversary—the landmark book Origins of Marvel Comics by Stan Lee! A deluxe, collector’s edition of the original Origins of Marvel Comics including a new cover, essays, and more. Originally published in 1974, Origins of Marvel Comics features the first appearance of characters who have dominated the pantheon of Marvel’s modern storytelling mythology—Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, and Doctor Strange—along with a second Silver Age tale featuring these special heroes, all hand-picked and introduced by the one and only Stan Lee, and serving as an essential showcase for writers and artists such as Stan himself, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita, and Marie Severin. Whether viewed as a historical artifact that launched an industry of presenting Marvel Comics to a broad audience of fans or a collection of the best in Silver Age comics by many of the greatest creators to ever put pencil to paper, Origins of Marvel Comics highlights both the lasting greatness of these iconic characters as well as the monumental contributions of the talented creators who launched an entire storytelling universe.

This work provides an extensive guide for students, fans, and collectors of Marvel Comics. Focusing on Marvel's mainstream comics, the author provides a detailed description of each comic along with a bibliographic citation listing the publication's title, writers/artists, publisher, ISBN (if available), and a plot synopsis. One appendix provides a comprehensive alphabetical index of Marvel and Marvel-related publications to 2005, while two other appendices provide selected lists of Marvel-related game books and unpublished Marvel titles.

A Hulk-sized tome spanning eight decades of the heroic rise of Marvel as it magically mutated from 1939's four-color upstart to a 1960s pop-culture dynamo to current Hollywood heavy hitter. With essays by comics historian Roy Thomas and a huge fold-out timeline that chronicles the entire Marvel history

Over twelve years in the making, this second edition of THE FULL COLOR GUIDE TO MARVEL SILVER AGE COLLECTIBLES: FROM MMMS TO MARVELMANIA is a comprehensive guide to Marvel toys, fan club items, gumball trinkets, records, cards, stickers - you name it - with over 1400 color pictures from no less than the greatest Marvel collections in the world. This guide provides prices, pictures, historical information, and anecdotes regarding all aspects of Marvel's rise in the 1960s and also presents the most detailed histories ever written regarding the Merry Marvel Marching Society and the Marvelmania International fan clubs. The specific 1960s Marvel memorabilia covered in this book include early correspondence items such as letters, postcards, and no-prizes; Bullpen pin-ups; Ben Cooper Halloween costumes, masks, and playsuits; fan club kits from both phases of the MMMS, the Super Heroes Club, and the Marvelmania International fan club; t-shirts and sweatshirts; the 1965 Swingin' Stationery Kit; iron-ons; posters, such as the 1965 Spider-man pin-up, plus all the Personality Posters and Marvelmania club posters; gumball items such as flicker rings, snap-on rings, Mini-Books, flexi-rings, rubber figures, sticker strip comics and puzzles; Golden Records and the GR reprint comics; SPC and Freddie McCoy records; Button World pinbacks; Aurora Plastic model kits; Lincoln International Spider-man copter gun; Karim Spider-man watch; Pressman Captain America kite; Transogram Flying Captain America; Lakeside Captain America Super-Flex action figure; all Marvel Captain Action sets; Marvel Super-Heroes TV show promotional poster, record, brochure, pennants, and bumper stickers; Donruss card set; Philadelphia Chewing Gum sticker set; Topps Marvel Flyer airplanes and Krazy Little Comics; all 1960s Marvel books; all Marvel products from Ideal Toys, Kenner, Whitman, and Milton Bradley; all Marvel Marx figures, scooters, friction cars, spinners, license plates, tricycles, and the Marx Super Hero Express train mint in box; the Power Comics pennant set; Ohio Art Marvel Flyers; Massachusetts Art pillows; all Marvelmania International fan club merchandise including pinbacks, stationery kit, magazines, and portfolios; and much much more. This guide is an indispensible resource for anyone involved in buying, selling, trading, or collecting Marvel Silver Age collectibles and especially for any fan who is interested in any aspect of Marvel's explosive growth into a pop-culture phenomenon in the 1960s as a result of the Herculean efforts of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and the rest of the Mighty Marvel Bullpen. 'Nuff said!

Stephen Strange is not the kind of doctor that initially comes to mind. He is Master of the Mystic Arts, a sorcerer supreme, a white knight who wields black magic against blacker villains still. Strange is mankind's only hope against the dark otherworldly forces that conspire to steal the life of the conscious world.

In celebration of its 75th Anniversary, Marvel Comics proudly presents this deluxe collection of its 10 mightiest Masterworks hardcovers - plus the all-new, long-in-demand NOT BRAND ECHH VOL. 1! Each titanic tome in this limited-edition boxed set features a newly designed cover treatment and interlocking spine artwork, and the slipcase itself is patterned after stately Avengers Mansion! Order yours today, True Believer, while supplies last! SLIPCASE SET INCLUDES: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 1 HC 264 PGS./COLLECTING TALES OF SUSPENSE #59-81. DAREDEVIL VOL. 1 HC 256 PGS./COLLECTING DAREDEVIL #1-11. DOCTOR STRANGE VOL. 1 HC 328 PGS./COLLECTING STRANGE TALES #110-111 AND #114- 141, AND AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #2. NOT BRAND ECHH VOL. 1 HC 456 PGS./COLLECTING NOT BRAND ECHH #1-13; AND MATERIAL FROM AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #5, AVENGERS ANNUAL #2, DAREDEVIL ANNUAL #1, FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5 AND SGT. FURY ANNUAL #4. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1 HC 272 PGS./COLLECTING AMAZING FANTASY #15 AND AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1-10. THE AVENGERS VOL. 1 HC 248 PGS./COLLECTING AVENGERS #1-10. THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1 HC 272 PGS./COLLECTING FANTASTIC FOUR #1-10. THE INCREDIBLE HULK VOL. 1 HC 176 PGS./COLLECTING HULK #1-6. THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN VOL. 1 HC 208 PGS./COLLECTING TALES OF SUSPENSE #39-50 THE MIGHTY THOR VOL. 1 HC 280 PGS./COLLECTING JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #83-100 THE X-MEN VOL. 1 HC 248 PGS./COLLECTING X-MEN #1-10