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Issue: Marvel Comics 70th Anniversary Celebration Magazine #[nn]
Publication Date: April 2009
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: 70 Years of Marvel ComicsView Brand Images
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: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
16 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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Penciller(s): Alan Davis
Inker(s): Mike Farmer
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Avengers
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Marvel 70th Anniversary Celebration

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Avison
Inker(s): Al Avison
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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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Table of Contents

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

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): Robert Greenberger
Subject Matter
Synopsis: 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

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Writer(s): Robert Greenberger
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Synopsis: 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) from base issue
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Writer(s): Jess Harrold
Subject Matter
Synopsis: 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) from base issue
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Writer(s): John Rhett Thomas
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Synopsis: 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!

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Writer(s): Jeph York
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Synopsis: 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) from base issue
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Writer(s): Jeph York
Subject Matter
Synopsis: 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) from base issue
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Writer(s): George Khoury
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Synopsis: 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) from base issue
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Writer(s): Sheila Johnson
Penciller(s): Daniel Acuna; Stefano Caselli; Mike Choi; Marko Djurdjevic; Khoi Pham; Rafa Sandoval
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Feature(s): Young Guns '09
Synopsis: Sketches by the new generation of Marvel artists, including photographs of each.
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Pages: 7
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The Next 70 Years

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): John Rhett Thomas
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Synopsis: 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!

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Synopsis: Intro to the two reprinted comic stories.
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The Sub-Mariner

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]
Synopsis: 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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Captain America and the Spy Ambush

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (signed)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed); Al Avison
Inker(s): George Klein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain America
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Countess Mara
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 11
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Golden Age Masterworks: The Reading Chronology!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Reading order guide with reprint info and cover thumbnails to 17 Golden Age Marvel Masterworks collections.
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