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Michael Retour
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Great covers on both of the above. I don't remember the stories (it has been a long time but the covers, especially the Avengers and Wanda to be precise drew me to the book). I don't know the artist (it looks like it could be the same artist on both covers but the Captain America is quite different on The Avengers book) but whomever painted them they sure were good! That Wanda pose sucked me in. The whole cover did. It was like "those are the Avengers" and I don't recall the story as being as memorable.
PS - Dave Cockrum did outstanding jobs on the covers he did and he did maybe four? I don't know what medium he used but they were all excellent.
I believe I own a Captain American one, with a Cockrum cover and a few others. I might still have the above late 60s ones in a box someplace. I tended to hang onto comics and books. They were my friends.
Then there are the even older Marvel ones featuring the Hulk, Thor, the Fantastic Four... all with great Kirby covers. Those were in black and white and I guess you could say they were the Marvel Essentials of their day except very small and hard to read but easy to carry around.
Edited by Michael Retour on 23 March 2008 at 8:40am
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Andrew Hess
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Lars S said: ..."I found the pic on Ebay - the whole series is up.(11 novels) "
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The whole lot? I'm not finding them, Lars. That would be quite the treat.
Could you post the link, please?
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Lars Sandmark
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Andrew, I'm not sure how to post links, sorry.
But it's under 'MNS full set' or something close to that.
It's But It Now price is $159.99 (!)
The seller has tons of old pocket novels and fireside TPBs
of the old marvel stuff.
John, the cover to the novel with the X-Men short story is posted above.
I'll post all the covers, even though Mr. Byrne may
kill me for so many graphics.
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Lars Sandmark
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Lars Sandmark
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Lars Sandmark
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Brian Hague
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"The Avengers Battle the Earth-Wrecker" was written by Otto Binder, who wrote the Adam Link stories with his brother, Earl, (under the pen name of Eando Binder "E and O") amongst other projects. Otto is also credited with the first stories to feature such characters and concepts as Mary Marvel, Brainiac, Supergirl, the Phantom Zone, Krypto, and the Legion of Super-Heroes.
In the Avengers book, the team is called away from a television appearance to battle Karzz, a thinly-disguised Kang analogue. Oddly, although they're featured on the cover, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver do not appear in the story while Iron Man and Thor do.
The cover was painted by Robert McGinnis, a paperback and film poster artist with more than eleven hundred painted works to his credit. His art is very collectible these days and is featured on any number of detective and mystery novels such as the Carter Brown mysteries or the Shell Scott series. He's also done covers for gothic romances & westerns... He did these posters for the films "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "You Only Live Twice."
Edited by Brian Hague on 23 March 2008 at 12:40pm
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Brian Talley
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I just sold that entire series of Marvel "Novels" on Ebay.
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Lars Sandmark
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Brian (Hague), excellent work, thanks for the info!
Brian (Talley), Q, were they from your personal collection?
(Were you the original owner I mean) I'm just curious why you
decided to part with them. Thanks
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Chad Carter
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Is it "Mayhem in Manhattan" or the other Spider-Man novel, where Spider-Man pounds the Kingpin into a purple pulp...I think it was the Wolfman novel, and it's very well done.
Read the Wolfman FF novel a lot back when...lots of Reed Richards and Ben Grimm in WW2 references, and Sue being smitten by the older, distinguished Reed (kind of more adult than I was used to reading at that time, as far as the emotions of a beautiful woman adoring a man were concerned).
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Brian Hague
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More recent Marvel novels: (list from the Nick Fury book published in 2000)
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Avengers & Thunderbolts by Pierce Askegren |
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Captain America: Liberty's Torch by Tony Isabella & Bob Ingersoll |
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Daredevil: Predator's Smile by Christopher Golden |
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Daredevil: the Cutting Edge by Madeline E. Robins |
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Fantastic Four: Countdown to Chaos by Pierce Askegren |
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Fantastic Four: Redemption of the Silver Surfer by Michael Jan Friedman |
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Fantastic Four: To Free Atlantis by Nancy A. Collins |
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Generation X by Scott Lobdell & Eliot S! Maggin |
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Generation X: Crossroads by J. Steven York |
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Generation X: Genogoths by J. Steven York |
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Incredible Hulk: Abominations by Jason Henderson |
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Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast by Peter David |
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Iron Man: Operation A.I.M. by Greg Cox |
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Iron Man: the Armor Trap by Greg Cox |
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Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Empyre by Will Murray |
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Spider-Man & Fantastic Four: Wreckage by Eric Fein & Pierce Askegren |
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Spider-Man & Incredible Hulk: Rampage by Danny Fingeroth & Eric Fein |
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Spider-Man & Iron Man: Sabotage by Pierce Askegren & Danny Fingeroth |
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Spider-Man: Carnage in New York by David Michelinie & Dean Wesley Smith |
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Spider-Man: Emerald Mystery by Dean Wesley Smith |
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Spider-Man: Goblin Moon by Kurt Busiek & Nathan Archer |
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Spider-Man: Goblin's Revenge by Dean Wesley Smith |
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Spider-Man: the Gathering of the Sinister Six by Adam-Troy Castro |
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Spider-Man: the Lizard Sanction by Diane Duane |
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Spider-Man: the Octopus Agenda by Diane Duane |
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Spider-Man: the Venom Factor by Diane Duane |
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Spider-Man: Valley of the Lizard by John Vornholt |
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Spider-Man: Venom's Wrath by Keith R.A. DeCandido & Jose R. Nieto |
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Spider-Man: Wanted: Dead or Alive by Craig Shaw Gardner |
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Ultimate Hulk edited by Stan Lee & Peter David |
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Ultimate Silver Surfer edited by Stan Lee |
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Ultimate Spider-Man edited by Stan Lee |
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Ultimate Super-Villains edited by Stan Lee |
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Ultimate X-Men edited by Stan Lee |
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Untold Tales of Spider-Man edited by Stan Lee & Kurt Busiek |
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X-Men & Avengers: Gamma Quest books 1, 2, & 3 by Greg Cox |
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X-Men & Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Books 1, 2, & 3 by Tom DeFalco, Jason Henderson, Adam-Troy Castro, & eluki bes shahar |
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X-Men Legends edited by Stan Lee |
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X-Men: Codename Wolverine by Christopher Golden |
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X-Men: Empire's End by Diane Duane |
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X-Men: Law of the Jungle by Dave Smeds |
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X-Men: Mutant Empire Books 1, 2, & 3 by Christopher Golden |
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X-Men: Prisoner by Ann Nocenti |
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X-Men: Smoke and Mirrors by eluki bes shahar |
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X-Men: Soul Killer by Richard Lee Byers |
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X-Men: the Jewels of Cyttorak by Dean Wesley Smith |
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Brian Talley
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Brian (Talley), Q, were they from your personal collection?
(Were you the original owner I mean) I'm just curious why you
decided to part with them. Thanks
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Lars...yes they were part of my personal collection, and they were one owner. I sold them because I had not read them in years, and they were just sitting there on the shelf. And to be honest another reason is that I am going to Heroes Con in Charlotte in June, and I'm financing some of the trip by selling a bunch of stuff on Ebay (so keep an eye out over at Buy, Sell, Trade).
Edited by Brian Talley on 23 March 2008 at 2:40pm
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