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Issue: Marvel Comics 70th Anniversary Celebration Magazine #[nn]
Publication Date: April 2009
 
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Variant: Left Cover
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
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Pages: 108
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Price: $9.99 USD
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Content Items: 16 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jeff Youngquist (Senior Editor); John Rhett Thomas; Mark D. Beazley; Jennifer Grünwald; John Denning (Assistant); Cory Levine (Assistant); Alex Starbuck (Assistant)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: magazine size
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Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Alan Davis
Mark Farmer
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superhero
Invaders
Invaders [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Ms. America; Whizzer; Destroyer; Spitfire]
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Together with the right hand cover, this forms one image.
Marvel 70th Anniversary Celebration

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Al Avison
Al Avison
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superhero
Whizzer [Bob Frank]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Bucky Barnes; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Toro [Tom Raymond]; Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie]; Destroyer [Keen Marlow]
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FlagAll-Winners Comics #4 published January 1942
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Table of Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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The Timely Birth of Marvel

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Greenberger
Subject Matter
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.
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Here Comes the Marvel Age of Comics

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Greenberger
Subject Matter
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.
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Toying Around with the Marvel Legends

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jess Harrold
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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.
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70 Years of Marvel Masterworks

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Rhett Thomas
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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.
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70 Years of Growing Marvel!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jeph York
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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.
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70 Years of Marvel Characters!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jeph York
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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.
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End of the Century

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Khoury
Subject Matter
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.
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70 Years of Exhilarating Art

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sheila Johnson
Daniel Acuna; Stefano Caselli; Mike Choi; Marko Djurdjevic; Khoi Pham; Rafa Sandoval
Subject Matter
Young Guns '09
Sketches by the new generation of Marvel artists, including photographs of each.
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The Next 70 Years

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Rhett Thomas
Subject Matter
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
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We Close Our Celebration of 70 Years with Two of Marvel's Earliest Tales!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Intro to the two reprinted comic stories.
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The Sub-Mariner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Everett (signed)
Bill Everett (signed)
Bill Everett (signed)
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Bill Everett
Subject Matter
superhero
Sub-Mariner
Sub-Mariner [Namor]
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.
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FlagMarvel Mystery Comics #2 published December 1939
was Attack on New York City [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Art reconstruction by Pacific Rim Graphics. Color reconstruction by Wesley Wong.
Captain America and the Spy Ambush

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (signed)
Jack Kirby (signed); Al Avison
George Klein
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superhero
Captain America
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Countess Mara
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.
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FlagCaptain America Comics #10 published January 1942
was Spy Ambush [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Art reconstruction by Pacific Rim Graphics. Color reconstruction by Tom Mullin.
Golden Age Masterworks: The Reading Chronology!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reading order guide with reprint info and cover thumbnails to 17 Golden Age Marvel Masterworks collections.
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