The Marvel Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles from the World of Marvel

258 Pages·2007·37.4 MB·English

by  Roy Thomas, Peter Sanderson

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CONTENTS

1940s: The Golden Age

1950s: The Frantic FiftiesPlus « Year or Two
1960s: The Mazvel Age of Gomivs Begins

1970s: Phase Two

1980s: The New Masters
1990s: Rise and Fall

2000s: Marvel in the New Millennium

Afterword

About the Authors

Biblicgsaphy

Acknowledgments/Credits
INTRODUCTION

SUMMER, i939

Thats when 77e icrofOe premiered, when World War I began in Eistope

when the New York Yankee celebrate Lou Gehrig Day. It wa aleo when the rst

Marvel comic booktitle, aptly enough Mare! iru) 41—bit the mation’snewesends

As you'll find on the pages that fallow, shat foureculur estravugenes

stsred the Human Tooek and the Sub-Mariner, ea unique super heres
sho are sll thrilicg readers nearly seven detades later: OF course, over

the years, they've changed es these rcaders have changed... a4 thor creative

vega have Bhan... she hil ha ehaigea.

Moat notably, nowadays Toteh and Subby hive alot comps

At one time ir the 19905, Marvel editor &

ark Gruenwald made up a

list of all the heres and villains that had eppeared in the company's tees
pretly to encourage writers and stints to use already existing charsciers
whenever pomible rather shat sake vp new ones. “Zleate think Tong and

herd,” Mark edmonished, “beftre yow add wv this mulsinude.” His list wen:

on for dozens of pages, hundreds of names. Headed

lay the Jong run, Marvel's chavacters, like its story Hines, continued (9

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characters, not just end

Exon so, aver the deads, ecvtain heroes and villains (also certain art

sSitore, colorist, and letecers) sie ad out From che hese: ‘They
see the ones whosare semumbered wi:h fondness and avis ane, twenty Forty

ven soventy yests after they burs: full grown Like Athena fom the b

some talented guy or gal witha :ypeveriter, pencil. em ink bruss...0F

Captate: America, rhe Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Inevedible Halk
the X-Men, Walverine

Sian Lee, Jack Sinby, Seve Disko, Car! Burgor, Bill Everet, olin Romita,
John Suseema, Joe Simon. Frank Miller...

Thishook is about ell of the abowe and many more besices

iteatlock of mesmucubilias taclie bevedeat posite dédintiion of that
rors. Memorabilia ect be s published comic book, a computer printout

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