{"product_id":"marvel-value-stamps-a-visual-history-9781419743443","title":"Marvel Value Stamps: A Visual History","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning Marvel Comics writer, editor, and historian Roy Thomas comes the story of Marvel's most-inspired comic book promotional campaign, collected in a single volume for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCover by Alex Ross\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1974 Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee devised an ingenious promotional campaign--Marvel Value Stamps, which appeared on the letters pages of their monthly comics. Readers could cut out all 100 of these super hero and super villain stamps and place them in a special mail-order booklet. Once complete, these stamp books could then be redeemed for special discounts and exclusive merchandise. The program was so successful, a second set was released in 1975. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now in \u003ci\u003eMarvel Value Stamps: A Visual History\u003c\/i\u003e, full-color reproductions of these long unavailable, out-of-print original stamp books, stamps, and all of the surrounding ephemera and source material are compiled into one must-have volume for collectors and fans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoy Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e has been a comic book writer and editor since 1965, primarily for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2011, he edits \u003ci\u003eAlter Ego\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and writes the online Tarzan strips and the occasional comic book. Thomas is also the author of two definitive histories for Taschen--\u003ci\u003e75 Years of Marvel Comics: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Stan Lee Story\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in rural South Carolina. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harry N. Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660032151826,"sku":"9781419743443","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f4d371b2-d324-449e-b32e-3f93ac98c2d2.jpg?v=1733469375","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marvel-value-stamps-a-visual-history-9781419743443","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}