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This is the book that ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS should've been. Are you ready for this? The first appearances or/and first issues of The RAWHIDE KID, DOCTOR DROOM, The FANTASTIC FOUR, ANT-MAN, The INCREDIBLE HULK, SPIDER-MAN, THOR, HUMAN TORCH, TWO-GUN KID, IRON MAN, SGT. FURY & His HOWLING COMMANDOS, DOCTOR STRANGE, The AVENGERS, The X-MEN, DAREDEVIL, NICK FURY AGENT Of S.H.I.E.L.D., GHOST RIDER, CAPTAIN MARVEL, CAPTAIN SAVAGE & His LEATHERNECK RAIDERS, SILVER SURFER, and more, more, MORE!!!
This terrifically titanic tome also contains the dynamic debuts of The WASP, The WATCHER, CAPTAIN AMERICA, and SUB-MARINER in their own sensational series; KA-ZAR, and DOCTOR DOOM in their initial solo stories, plus covers galore, and even more, more, MORE!!!
All in full colour, this is the one book that no dyed-in-the-wool Marvel fan can afford to be without. This softcover, 488 page masterpiece contains, in the main, the finest and most accurate printings of these tales since they were first released back in the '60s. Definitely no shoddy 'restoration' work that some first printings of the MASTERWORKS series suffered from. An absolute bargain, and the book to have this Christmas. But don't wait - buy it today.
ISBN #978-0-7851-5864-6
I'm waiting on those two 1970s volumes!
ReplyDeleteYup, those look good too. Gotta have them.
ReplyDeleteI would have replaced Silver Surfer #1 with the 1st Silver Surfer solo story, from FF Annual #5, which would then make room for Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1st Guardians of the Galaxy) and Tales To Astonish #35 (1st Ant-Man in costume).
ReplyDeleteAlso, FF Annual #2 is probably the first Dr Doom solo story, not MSH #20.
Well, FF Annual #2 features Doom's origin, but as it falls under the umbrella of an FF title, it isn't really a 'solo story' as such.
ReplyDeleteMarvel Super-Heroes was a try-out series to see what appealed to readers, so the cover-featured Doom strip was the first time he appeared in a main story outside of an FF magazine. The starring role, as it were.
One could quibble with the choice of stories I suppose, but I think the idea was to provide as wide a selection as possible from different magazines. Otherwise, it would have been the obvious selection of FF #5 (Doom), FF #48, 49 & 50 (Galactus, Silver Surfer), etc.
Had it been left to me, I may have left out the westerns and had (as you say) Ant Man's first time in costume, Dr. Strange's origin, etc., but the book is trying to present a fully-rounded picture of what Marvel was like in the '60s, and it really does do a tremendous job in achieving that aim.