The second I got a glimpse of the Marvel Classic Sticker Book online I wanted it. Why? Just because I find all the offbeat paraphernalia associated with comics fascinating. The weird attempts to market characters to kids and capture the fancy of even young adults can create some real curiosities. The stickers here are something else showcasing images of Marvel heroes and villains from the very pages of the books themselves but with incongruous word bubbles attached. There are stickers from the 70's and 60's both included.
Then there are just floating heads of characters as stickers too. Also in this book is an interesting but sadly somewhat meager collection of those delicious corner boxes that once decorated each Marvel comic book, each distinctive to that title. I'd have loved to have seen a comprehensive gathering of these, but we do get a few dandies.
But the real amazing thing about this little book are the pull-out posters. These are replicas of the amazing Jack Kirby Marvelmania posters along with a Johnny Romita one which revised the original Kirby.
I confess to buying two copies of this book so that I could in fact pull these out and still have an intact copy. I have plans to get these properly framed (in cheap poster frames admittedly) and get them displayed. These are amazing images from the "King" even if it was his poor compensation for these and work like them which caused him to bolt from the House of (Mostly His) Ideas!
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I just love those iconic corner box illos and wish they still used those. I think Marvel UK (or its predecessor) gave away or you could purchase, similar stickers at some point, even for the 60s/70s those word balloons are corny
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