Anyone Know What This Display

[Wee67]

Other than Marvel Book, of course. I mean what books specifically? Comics? I threw in a Fireside book to give a sense of size.

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[Wee67]

I'm going to assume it simply held comics since that is what it says. It also says distributed by "Marvel Books." Was that the name of Marvel comics at some point? I do see a reference to coloring and sticker books.

[palitoy]

A previous Marvel Books division was set up in 1982[3] to initially published coloring books and sticker sets, and was intended to also publish prose novels.-- From Wikipedia.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I have two Marvel storybooks (one is Spidey, the other is Fantastic Four) from the early to mid-80s that featured painted art by Earl Norem. I believe those were labeled as "Marvel Books". I'll see if I can dig them up later.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

Could it possibly be for the series of paperback sized reprints issued in the early 80s? (1982 seems about right)
I have paperbacks of the X-Men, Spidey, Hulk, Cap, Conan, the Avengers that have a similar logo on them but they're labelled as "Marvel Illustrated Books".

[The Toyroom]

Like so...

[torgospizza]

Could it possibly be for the series of paperback sized reprints issued in the early 80s? (1982 seems about right)
I have paperbacks of the X-Men, Spidey, Hulk, Cap, Conan, the Avengers that have a similar logo on them but they're labelled as "Marvel Illustrated Books".

Those were great. I still have some of Star Wars, Star Trek, Dragonslayer, and Battlestar Galactica.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Here's the two kids books I was talking about, plus my little pocket paperback. The artwork in the kid's books are by Marie Severin and Earl Norem, with story by David Anthony Kraft. Pretty good pedigree!!!





Chris

Chris

[cjefferys]

I'd guess it would be for those "Big Looker" storybooks, they have the same "Marvel Books" logo as the display box. Really cool books, I remember those!