Marvel Comics 70th Anniversary Celebration Magazine [Right Cover]

([April] 2009)

Marvel 70th Anniversary Celebration (Table of Contents: 1)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Al Avison

Inks

Al Avison

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Whizzer [Bob Frank]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Toro [Tom Raymond]; Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie]; Destroyer [Keen Marlow]

Reprints

• from All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #4 (Spring 1942)

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

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The Timely Birth of Marvel (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Greenberger

Synopsis

Story of Marvel Comics from 1939 to 1961.

Includes boxes titled Marvel Hall of Fame; 70 Years of Marvel Monsters!; 70 Years of Costume Chic; 70 Years of Stan Catchphrases!

Features several pieces of art, including a full page spread reprinting the cover to Marvel Comics No. 1.

Here Comes the Marvel Age of Comics (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Greenberger

Synopsis

History of Marvel Comics in the 1960s.

Includes boxes titled 70 Years of Costume Chic; Marvel Hall of Fame; "You Belong, You Belong, You Belong!"; Inside the Batty Bullpen with Flo Steinberg.

Features several art inserts, including a full page spread of a pin-up from Amazing Spider-Man Annual No. 5.

Toying Around with the Marvel Legends (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Jess Harrold

Synopsis

Brief history of Marvel Comics merchandising, focusing mainly on figurines and action figures.

Includes boxes titled 70 Years of Marvel '80s Greatest Revivals; 70 Years of Costume Chic; 70 Years of Timeless Mini-Series.

Features several photographs depicting Marvel toys and merchandising.

70 Years of Marvel Masterworks (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 6 pages (report information)

Script

John Rhett Thomas

Synopsis

Interview with Cory Sedlmeier, editor of Marvel Masterworks and Omnibus collections.

Includes text boxes titled Marvel Hall of Fame; 70 Years of Costume Chic

Features several photographs and art inserts, including a full page spread reprinting the variant cover to the Golden Age Marvel Comics Omnibus Vol. 1.

70 Years of Growing Marvel! (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Jeph York

Synopsis

Essay about the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and its several iterations.

Includes text boxes titled Read 'em in Trade; Marvel Hall of Fame; 70 Years of Costume Chic

Includes several pieces of art, mostly depicting entries from the OHOTMU.

70 Years of Marvel Characters! (Table of Contents: 8)

text article / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Jeph York

Synopsis

Interview with Jeff Christiansen, writer for the incarnation of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe starting in 2004.

Includes text boxes titled 70 Years of Shocking Deaths!; Marvel Hall of Fame; 70 Years of Cosmic Comics.

Includes photographs and several pieces of art, mostly depicting entries from the OHOTMU.

End of the Century (Table of Contents: 9)

text article / 11 pages (report information)

Script

George Khoury

Synopsis

Essay on Marvel Comics in the 1980s and 1990s.

Includes text boxes titled 70 Years of Costume Chic (twice); Marvel Hall of Fame; 70 Years of Classic Crossover Events.

Includes several pieces of art.

70 Years of Exhilarating Art (Table of Contents: 10)

Young Guns '09 / text article / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Sheila Johnson

Pencils

Daniel Acuña; Stefano Caselli; Mike Choi; Marko Djurdjević; Khoi Pham; Rafa Sandoval

Synopsis

Sketches by the new generation of Marvel artists, including photographs of each.

The Next 70 Years (Table of Contents: 11)

text article / 9 pages (report information)

Script

John Rhett Thomas

Synopsis

Interview with Publisher Dan Buckley; VP Sales David Gabriel and Editor-in-chief Joe Quesada.

Includes text boxes titled 70 Years of Catchy Cartoon Theme Songs!; 70 Years of Marvel History: The Events that Shape the Next 70; They Won the Eisners.

Features several pieces of art taken from then current Marvel Comics

[We Close Our Celebration of 70 Years with Two of Marvel's Earliest Tales!] (Table of Contents: 12)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

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Synopsis

Intro to the two reprinted comic stories.

The Sub-Mariner (Table of Contents: 13)

Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

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Letters

Bill Everett

Genre

superhero

Characters

Sub-Mariner [Namor]

Synopsis

Namor heads for New York City, and while securing a disguise, a young woman accidentally sets her dress ablaze with a cigarette. Deciding that she can be of value to him in his avowed war against the Americans, he kidnaps her from the hospital and takes her to his undersea kingdom.

Reprints

• from Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #2 (December 1939)

Indexer Notes

Art reconstruction by Pacific Rim Graphics. Color reconstruction by Wesley Wong.

Captain America and the Spy Ambush (Table of Contents: 14)

Captain America / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (signed)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed); Al Avison

Inks

George Klein

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes]; Countess Mara

Synopsis

Cap and Bucky face the unparalleled fury of a female Nazi agent, bent on capturing America's only model of the new rapid fire grenade gun for Hitler.

Reprints

• from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #10 (January 1942)

Indexer Notes

Art reconstruction by Pacific Rim Graphics. Color reconstruction by Tom Mullin.

Golden Age Masterworks: The Reading Chronology! (Table of Contents: 15)

text article / 1 page (report information)

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Synopsis

Reading order guide with reprint info and cover thumbnails to 17 Golden Age Marvel Masterworks collections.