Dork Note: All these Marvelmania Posters are highly sought after by collectors and usually go for hundreds of dollars. A friend of mine had the Fantastic Four one and it was AWESOME!
Clipped from Wikipedia: In 1969, Marvelmania produced 11 two-foot × three-foot posters, all but one in color:
- Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby
- Thor by Jack Kirby
- Galactus and the Silver Surfer by Jack Kirby
- Doctor Doom (2 different colors) by Jack Kirby
- Hulk by Herb Trimpe, based on a Jack Kirby design
- Spider-Man by Jack Kirby, replaced by
- Spider-Man by John Romita Sr.
- Captain America by Jim Steranko
- Black Knight
- Captain America ("Cap Goes Wild!"), adapted from the cover of Captain America #106 (Oct. 1968)
- Thor, Captain America and Spider-Man ("Be a Super-Hero! Give Toys for Tots") public-service promotion for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve "Toys for Tots" program, penciled and inked by Jack Kirby
Regarding the art's provenance, Marvelmania Magazine editor and comics historian Mark Evanier wrote in 2002,
"Jack [Kirby] was promised hefty sums of cash to draw dozens of things, including eight posters of Marvel heroes that the guy at Marvelmania promised to market. The eight drawings represented some of Jack's finest work, and he actually inked them himself, which was something he rarely did. Only four of the eight were ever issued and, though poorly printed, they sold well...which, of course, did not mean that Jack received the promised hefty sums. He got only a few bucks for the four that were released and nothing at all for the others."
Hello, Just to add that the second Doctor Doom picture is a limited serigraph (300 copies) done in 1991 by Editions Deesse, France, with new colors done by Mike Zeck. Only the first picture is the 1969 Marvelmania poster by Jack.
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