Fans of 1970s Marvel Value Stamps have reason to celebrate, with not only a brand new retrospective book from Abrams ComicArts due out in March, but also an additional tear-off daily calendar for 2024 with 366 images of the beloved stamps.
The 2024 daily desk calendar (which will go on sale on August 29) includes reproductions of the original 1974 and 1975 stamp series, alongside later reissues and other stamp-related art.
Each page measures 5.25″ x 4.375″ and is printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink.
The official listing also notes that the backside of each individual page is “blank for notes or shopping lists.”
The Marvel Value Stamps Day-to-Day Calendar comes with a suggested retail price $17.99.
After a few delays, the Marvel Value Stamps: A Visual History (written by Roy Thomas) arrives on March 28 for a suggested retail price of $29.99.
Check out one of the original stamps below featuring Doc Ock and stay tuned to Conskipper for all of your retro comic news.
Isn’t that nice. Perhaps Marvel could use some of the money they make on this to provide replacement copies of the comics Stan Lee told us to cut up so after filling the album we’d receive rewards and prizes. I filled my album and if I hadn’t done what Lee asked, my comics would be intact and still mint or near mint condition, worth maybe $35,000.
When I sold magazines for a company that also advertised in Marvel comics and promised prizes, I earned a baseball glove, a black light poster, and a transistor radio, which they promptly sent to me when they said they would.
Stan Lee never sent anyone a single reward of any kind to anyone with a full stamp album. He left the company to go out to California and try to sell content to Hollywood. It doesn’t appear that he even tried setting up the reward/prize program at all. It’s said he talked a convention organizer into offering some discount tickets to a comic convention once. Which isn’t actually a reward he gave to anyone at all. The convention dealer provided it, and to only about 20 people.
It’s been nearly 50 years now, and I think it’s safe to assume that this whole deal was just a scam so no rewards will be sent and that the Marvel “Stamps” had no “value” at all.
If you did what Lee said you didn’t gain, your comics LOST ALL of their value, as comics with “stamps” cut out are now worth nothing to collectors.
Rewards, goodies and prizes were coming, he said, “as good as money in the bank.”
I’ll be happy to accept replacement copies of the comics I bought instead.