MARVEL VAULT: A Visual History

Complete with items of facsimile memorabilia tucked into an album sized 12" square sleeve on the inside front cover including three trading cards, the Fantastic Four Synopsis from 1961 typewritten, a Sub-Mariner sketch, a Marvel Convention Programme 1975 and a Stark business card. Spider-Man, the Black Knight, the Invincible Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America plus magazines like Venus, Adventures Into Terror and War Adventures and the most eagerly awaited epic of the year, the Origin of the Silver Surfer here is the full insider's story of Marvel Comics. This special vault brings the Universe to you, from 1939 to the bold new arena of the present day, choc full of historic images with early sketches of the Human Torch, Bullpen birthday cards, and a membership certificate for the Merry Marvel Marching Society. Pow! Whaam! Zap! All true believers and comic gurus whether you have been collecting dime-books since the 1940s or just started to crack the pages of new Ms Marvel or Captain America sagas, the Marvel Universe has always reflected the real world society, a fact decided when Stan Lee chose to base nearly every hero in New York City and his characters have matured with evolving trends and preferences which explains the 2015-16 event comic, Secret Wars, a series that allowed for many nostalgia-based spin-offs of old and fondly remembered storylines. Here are the dark reigns, the Disney touch, and major milestones in a chronological survey from the Golden Age in the 1940s, the frantic 50s, the comics of the 60s, phase two of the 70s, the new masters of the 80s, the rise and fall in fortune in the 90s, and Marvel in the new millennium and in the 2010s into the mainstream. A magnificent Titan Books publication 2007 and revised 2016 first edition, 208 huge pages, heavyweight and dripping with exciting colour illustrations throughout.
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