Show us your MMMS (pre 1971) and other Marvel Non Comic Items

[ft88]

I don't think this post has been set up and I have always loved these items.

Here are some of the usual suspects. Ads and letters from the MMMS club.

 

[ft88]

And then the club card, Thing sticker and button. I used to have the orange one but kind of thought it was ugly.

 

[ft88]

Things I want to see the most from members are the MMMS pencil, original shirts, the Marx Train, Tricycle, and Spinners w boxes. And the other paper pennants like this one. I don't see them for sale very often.

 

[namisgr]

Those MMMS items are so neat - where can I join?

 

Around '73 (sorry for bending the thread) Marvel marketed a comic storage box. It consisted of an inner cardboard rectangle that could fit about 20 books, that fit inside a white outer box with a very cool Steranko rendition of the Marvel pantheon. It was the first comic storage device I used - no wonder few of my early Bronze books survived in NM shape!

 

[Mister_Comics]

GRAPHICS is reproducing the Marvel t-shirts. I picked up the Spider-Man and FF shirts last year. They look exactly like the originals I had long ago.

[jimjum12]

One of my best friends has almost all of the MMMS stuff but is still looking intently for the 6 foot Spidey poster.If anyone out there has one,he would certainly pay good money.Are there any repros out there of that?GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[ComicBookGuy]

Best idea for a thread in a looong time.

It's cool to see the button above that I've been using on my avatar for a while now.

Here's the complete Donruss Marvel Super-Heroes card set from 1966 that I bought from the Western Pennsylvania collection:

 

[ComicBookGuy]

When you flip them, this is what you get:

 

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Here's the 1966 bumper stickers:

 

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Here are the "Vari-Vue" rings, a set of 11 from the Western Penn collection. I'm pretty sure this is the whole 1966 set. You move the rings back and forth and the image changes:

 

[ComicBookGuy]

And this has got to be the holy grail of all the MMMS-era items, the infamous and official Marvel "No Prize" envelope that would be sent out to fans:

 

[ft88]

Here are the 3 key posters. The 6 footer from 1966 as well as the 4 footers from 1966 and 1969/70 (Marvelmania) Plus the tubes they originally came in.

 

 

 

 

[ft88]

And here are two of the three Marx Spinners.

 

I have seen the Marx motorscycles (and the Spinners) for sale usually in rough shape and without the box. The Marx train comes up fors sale almost never. One came up on ebay and sold for about $2000 with some wear and no box. Did it come with a box?

 

[ft88]

Here's an ebay link for the Captain America tricycle

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/1968-Captain-America...1QQcmdZViewItem

[blutobc]

When you flip them, this is what you get:

 

 

Man, if I'd had those cards as a kid, there'd be no way in the world that they would have remained in nice condition. That would have been some flippable fun.

[boomtown]

And here are two of the three Marx Spinners.

 

 

Very nice. I sold those 2 on ebay around 4 or 5 years ago, although yours look slightly nicer. Kept the the 3rd because the bidder never came through. Here's the final piece to the set, front & back of box.

 

 

[HighVoltage]

ft,

 

You, sir, have some extremely nice examples of those Spidey posters!

 

 

Wow, thanks for sharing those!

 

I have a short story about the Marvelmania poster that Romita did.

 

A few years ago, I had John sign the poster. He was very gracious to sign it, but he said he's always had mixed feelings about that poster. He said that Kirby had done the original piece, but that for some reason (either Marvel or the Marvelmania folks - Mark Evanier, I believe - at that time?) somebody wasn't happy with the final piece & they asked John to redo the poster.

 

John re-did the art & he said that Jack was mad at him about it for years! He thought that John had just gone ahead & changed the artwork on his own, since he was the 'Spidey-guy.' John said that he had tried to tell Jack that wasn't the case but that Jack was still mad about it anyway!

 

Anyhoo, here's a shot of Jack's original & my signed version of the poster.

 

 

 

 

Just to continue on with the old Marvel posters for a moment: ft's 6-foot Spidey poster is very, very difficult to find - let alone in the condition that his is in! The 4-foot version came out at the same time as a Hulk poster. Those are both quite tough as well.

 

The Marvelmania posters from 69/70 pop up more often, but they are tough as well, particularly in nice shape.

 

I know that Kirby had done a version of Captain America, too, for the Marvelmania posters - but that Steranko's version is the one that saw print.

[HighVoltage]

Here's some more stuff!

 

A complete set of the day-glo cards (with the envelopes)! I love these!

 

 

[HighVoltage]

Two of the three coins from the mid-70's.

 

I don't have the Hulk!

 

I found this Conan coin in one of the original coin-holders that you could get with the coin.

 

Seems like you could also wear these as a necklace as well... but I'm getting old. I might be confused!

 

[namisgr]

The goods in this thread are tremendous! Love the giant posters, toys (in original boxes!), complete set of cards, and day-glo posters. Great pop culture items from a byegone era. Special thanks, Voltage, for giving us a look at a most excellent Kirby rendition of Spidey.