Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949

This collection reprints early Marvel, then Timely, comic books from 1939 to the late 1940s, the years when American superhero magazines were invented and then turned to wartime plots. A facsimile of Marvel Comics No. 1 sits beside later issues featuring the Sub-Mariner, the Human Torch, Captain America, and all-star team-ups. The stories are short, brightly coloured adventures against spies, saboteurs, and costumed criminals, printed with their original advertisements and errors. The book is a historical anthology of a publishing line's first decade, not a modern graphic novel with a single plot.

Bound in blue screen-printed and metallic foil blocked cloth with lettering by Ian Jepson. Printed in 4-colour throughout. Endpapers printed in metallic ink with a design by Marco D’Alfonso. Ribbon marker. Coloured page edges. FACSIMILE COMIC with 4-page cover. PRESENTATION BOX bound and lined in printed and gold laminated paper with a colour design on all sides by Marco D’Alfonso. LAID-IN PRINT illustration D’Alfonso printed in four colours.