I could talk about current comic news and review recent releases, or I can look at more 1970s Marvel Super Hero Stamps.
I know which I’m choosing!
I have this package here that showed up in some collection or ‘nother of Marvel Stamps (as seen here):
…that contains several uncut sheets of said stamps. Since each package is supposed to only contain 10 stamps, plus one “special stamp,” obviously this package was only kept to store the stamps. Why the original owner didn’t go out “get [his] own Marvel Stamp Album,” as is blurbed on the back, I do not know.
Below are the five “special stamps” that this person had…they are normally sort of a shiny gold-ish color, but they didn’t scan all that well. Or rather, I didn’t scan them all that well. Should probably look at the scanner’s instruction book one of these days.
I like how the Hulk stamp looks as if they just threw that “Bruce Banner” above the Hulk’s head to fill space. “You know what would complete this design? If someone would hastily scrawl ‘Bruce Banner’ in this blank space here. …Perfect!”
Your Spider Sense is telling you…what? There’s a spider above your head?
The FF stamp is a little scuffed-up, and required some brightness/contrast adjusting, but hopefully you can make it out just fine. I guess…the Thing is hitting giant baseballs emblazoned with the faces of the other Fantastic Four members? “What If…Marvel Published Strange Sports Stories?”
I’ve got nothing snarky to say here. That’s actually not a bad pic. Well, none of these are really bad pics, but I thought this Cap stamp was quite nice, even with “AVENGER” scribbled in there at the side.
Now I know “The Invincible Shellhead” is just combining two of Iron Man’s most common descriptors, but man, that just doesn’t look right to me.
Anyway, the package says there are six “special stamps,” but I have only five here. And yeah, I know what the sixth stamp really is…
…but a boy can dream, can’t he?
Hee, hee, Tony is definitely going, “Hey there, ladies…”
All I can say is
“UHHH…!!”
That last one could really use a handwritten “Ted Sallis” note on the side.
Yeah, I like how the other guys look like they’re about to spring into some kind of action (and Cap is posing majestically, which he does a lot), but Iron Man is just sort of, hey kids, how’s it going? Today we’re going to learn about Baseball!
I had this !!! i wonder if it’s mine and I sold it Ralph and forgot I did.
I’m definitely the previous owner.