Posted: 7/24/2012 6:32:15 PM |
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Are you curious to see some rare vintage italian Marvel variants?
PLUS.... get some free vintage Marvel italian books if you join the competition....
Hello fellow collectors...
Probably few of you are aware that Italy is probably the 3rd/4th largest comic books market in the world...Still today i.e. Mickey Mouse (Topolino) sells 700.000 copies per week(!).
99% of the comics sold in the country are italian editions and are very different from their american counterparts.
For what concerns Marvel comics, a part from few stories published in 1967-1968 in anthological magazines, we had to wait until 1970, when, an Italian publisher (Ed. Corno) purchased the rights to print Spider-Man etc etc from MARVEL!
The first MARVEL comic published in Italian language was L'UOMO RAGNO #1 (SPIDER-MAN #1) in april 1970, followed in may 1970 by DEVIL #1 (DAREDEVIL #1). Many Marvel series were published in that decade: THOR, CAPTAIN AMERICA , FANTASTIC FOUR etc etc.
Each book usually contained 2 or more stories instead of 1 as it was in the USA and once in a while you could find posters and stickers attached to the comics.
Strangely, the first 50 issues of L'UOMO RAGNO and DEVIL were half in colour and half in B/W to save on printing costs!
A month ago I still had not decided how to use my free collector society coupons so I opted to submit three books that had been sitting in my multiple-books-box for decades...I know they were not in good shape but I thought they would display nicely once graded!!!
L'UOMO RAGNO 1 - 4/1970
DEVIL 1 - 5/1970
THOR 1 - 4/1971
I have some multiple RAW ITALIAN Marvel books from that era ...
SO I have decided to send some of them for free to the first 2 collectors who will able to associate the cover art of L'UOMO RAGNO 1, DEVIL 1, THOR 1 to the original american issues!!!
To join the competition you need to post on the message board and not write me privately!
CIAO!!!
FEDERICO
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