Promo for inflatable Spider-Man and Thor plastic pillows. $1.50 each plus 15 cents postage. Also Marvel super-hero t-shirts featuring Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Thor, and the Hulk. $2.00 each including postage. And The Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit for $1.00. Two mail-in coupons: Marvel Comics Group (Dept. PP or Dept. AJ) 625 Madison Ave., N.Y.C., N.Y 10022.
Stan's Soapbox tackles the "Where do you guys get your ideas?" question. Roy Thomas wrote the Goliath-Wasp wedding issue while on his honeymoon in the Caribbean, long-haired Englishman Barry Smith is a new staffer, Marvel has been written up in newspapers and magazines in Canada, France, England, Italy, Mexico, and Sweden, George Klein and Morrie Kuramoto are top watercolor artists, Jean Thomas is replacing Robin Green as the Bullpen Girl Friday, and Howard Purcell teaches art in his spare time. Also The Mighty Marvel Checklist and a spot illustration of Daredevil taken from an earlier issue.
Letters of comment from Brian Hoard (Arlington, Va.), J. William Hanley (Saginaw, Mich.), Pamela Jenkins (Philadelphia, Pa.), Robert Heimer (Philadelphia, Pa.), Don Tyler (Tulsa, Okla.), John Makransky (Meadowbrook, Pa.), and Vivian Sutton (Kingsland, Ga.). Also a spot illustration.
Promo for Doctor Strange #178 and The Avengers #61, "now on sale," with covers depicted. Different colors and changed background on the published version of Doctor Strange.