Marvel and DC Fireside Book Series

The first Fireside book in 1974 is entitled "Origins of Marvel Comics" and featured origins of characters such as Spider-Man, Thor, Doctor Strange, Sub-Mariner and the Hulk as well as super teams such as the Fantastic Four. Stan Lee wrote all of the stories and Jack Kirby supplies most of the art in this book and shows why he is regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time!

Features origins of such characters as Ironman, Daredevil, Nick Fury, Silver Surfer and the Watcher as well as super teams such as the X-Men and the Avengers. Again, most of the stories are written by Stan Lee with more incredible art by Jack Kirby amongst others such as Gene Colan and John Buscema.

This 2 book set with slipcase were offered with later softcover printings of the Origins books and were advertised in various comics put out around 1977.

Features origin stories of some of Marvel's villains such as Doctor Doom (Lee & Kirby), Dormammu (Lee & Ditko), Loki (Lee & Kirby), Red Skull (Lee & Kirby), Green Goblin (Lee & Romita), the Abomination(Lee & Kane) and Mephisto (Lee & Buscema).

Until now children could only read about the Superheroes - with this book, they can become Superheroes. Learn to get in shape with Mighty Marvel: including the Incredible Hulk's pulsating panorama of body builders; Silver Surfer's posture and balance exercises; Spidey's Supple Sidewinders and the Spider Bounce; Fat-Clobbering Time, the Thing's tried and true tirade against lumps and bumps.

Marvel's greatest costumed characters help you sharpen your wits with some of the cleverest puzzles, riddles, and games you've ever seen!

1977 saw the publication of "The Superhero Women Featuring the Fabulous Females of Marvel Comics" which featured Medusa (Lee & Romita), Red Sonja(Bruce Jones & Frank Thorne), Invisible Girl (Lee & Kirby), Ms. Marvel (Lee & Buscema), Hela (Lee & Buscema), the Cat (Linda Fit & Marie Severin), Wasp (Lee & Kirby), Lyra the Femizon (Lee & Romita), Shanna the She-Devil (Carole Seuling & Ross Andru) and Black Widow (Lee & Romita).

Marvel's greatest costumed characters help you sharpen your wits with some of the cleverest puzzles, riddles, and games you've ever seen!

The Mighty Marvel Superheroes show you how to perform heroics in the kitchen creating meals that are out of this world! Included are such delights as Ka-Zar's Steak Kabobs, Captain America's Double Cracker Jack Cake, the Hulk's Hulkburger, the Thing's Clobbered Omelet, Mr. Fantastic's Jaw Breaker and Spider Man's Chocolate Web Pancakes. From soup to nuts, from breakfast to dinner, vegetables, salads, desserts and beverages, The Mighty Marvel Superheroes' Cookbook is filled with easy-to-follow, foolproof recipes. This is one cookbook that the entire family will enjoy.

Stan Lee, the mighty man from Marvel, and John Buscema, active and adventuresome artist behind The Silver surfer, Conan The Barbarian, The Mighty Thor and Spider-Man, have collaborated on this comics compendium: an encyclopedia of information for creating your own superhero comic strips. Using artwork from Marvel Comics as primary examples, Buscema graphically illustrates the hitherto mysterious methods of comic art. Stan Lee's pithy prose gives able assistance and advice to the apprentice artist.

Produced by Mighty Marvel and the Children's Television Workshop (Electric Company), Spidey Super Stories is the very first easy-to-read superhero comic book, and some of the best issues are presented here.

Silently streaking through the skyways of space he soars, one gleaming figure, endowed with power such as mortal man has never known, yet helpless before a specter of horror which threatens to destroy the entire human race! The Silver Surfer! Only he stands between the hapless planet earth and the menace of Galactus! Only he against the most terrible threat in all the universe.

The most powerful mortal ever to walk the earth lashes out! The Mighty Marvel Origins series continues with stirring sagas of the frail physicist, Dr. Bruce Banner, caught in the heart of a nuclear explosion, a victim of gamma radiation gone wild, who in times of stress now finds himself transformed into 7 feet, one thousand pounds of unfettered fury! Allow yourself to stand in awe of the man-brute's matchless might, but beware of The Incredible Hulk.

From the dawn of Marvel memory - right up to the present - here are the answers to questions that have driven Marvel fans mad for years: Like who is stronger, The Hulk or The Thing? In a ferocious fight between Daredevil and Sub-Mariner, who would win or would it really take both Iron Man and Captain America to put old Subby down? Who talks funnier, The Silver Surfer or Thor, and are either of them any match in the battle of wits against the baddest of baddies, Loki, God of Evil? And in the wits department, is Spidey really the smartest superhero in the bullpen? In this vast roundup of vintage victories come the colossal clashes of The Fantastic Four, The Original X-Men, Dr. Strange, and all your favorite faves who battle their way across the wide world and universe outwitting, outmuscling and undoing, each other - as only Stan Lee can do it. Art by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, John Buscema, Gene Colon, Steve Ditko and John Romita.

From the Living Legend of WWII to the straight-thinking, straight-talking, straight-shooter of the seventies. Here, in this copious collection, are the most exciting episodes of Ol' Cappy's career. Most art is supplied by Jack Kirby with a Steranko and Gene Colen tale to boot.

Every story in this volume is written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby. Galactus, godlike devourer of whole worlds and the only being strong enough to stop him - The Silver Surfer - took their first bows in an episode of the Fantastic Four. And it was the fearsome foursome who reintroduced Prince Namor, otherwise known as the sensational Sub-Mariner, to the world of comics after a long, long absence. See the entire Galactus Trilogy here!

In one copious collection for the very first time, here are the spectacular sagas that have made Spider-Man the most popular Marvel Superhero of all time. See how Spidey met Mary Jane Watson and the classic drug-addiction saga with spectacular art by John Romita and Gil Kane.

Scarier than a swarm of sorcerers - spookier than the shades of the shadowy Seraphim - it's the spellbinding saga of Dr. Strange, told through the most sensational stories of his supernatural career. From his first meeting with the murderous Baron Mordo, to his second encounter with the naughty, nefarious Nightmare, right through the stupendous spectrum of spine-tingling spats with the likes of Loki and Dormammu - it's all recorded in full color in this triumphant tome. Most of the stories are drawn by Steve Ditko with the exception of one by Barry Windsor-Smith.

From Tomahawk to Sgt. Rock, DC Comics has published the finest stories of America at war on land, sea and in the air. Hop Harrigan, Blackhawk, The Unknown Soldier, Enemy Ace, Gunner and Sarge, Mlle. Marie, Captain Hunter, The Boy Commandos, Jeb Stuart's Hunted Tank, Captain Storm, Easy Company and many more of the very best war comics are reprinted here (in full color) for the first time. From the Revolutionary War to Vietnam, from wars in the past to wars of the future, the universal theme has remained constant: War Is Hell (even in the comics).

From the annals of romance comic history come the stormiest, most tempestuous, heart-throbbing stories about the rough, tough road to true love.

From the very center of the earth to the farthest edges of space, from the thrills of the near future to the last terror of recorded time - here in one fabulous collection are the best comic-book tales of science fiction ever published. Produced by DC Comics from 1950 to the early 1960's, they are the works of the best and the brightest in the field - writers like Gardner Fox, John Broome and Otto Binder, and the fantasy-art greats like Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson and Frank Frazetta. From the earliest heart -wrenchers like "Do Not Open Till Doomsday" to the most famous thrillers starring Adams Strange, here is a taste of a golden age of science fiction that has not been equaled in comicdom - a time when there were giants and geniuses in the field.

Marvel's greatest costumed characters help you sharpen your wits with some of the cleverest puzzles, riddles, and games you've ever seen!

Marvel's greatest costumed characters help you sharpen your wits with some of the cleverest puzzles, riddles, and games you've ever seen!

Marvel's greatest costumed characters help you sharpen your wits with some of the cleverest puzzles, riddles, and games you've ever seen!

At last! The sensational, best-selling "Marvel Origins" series continues! Featuring the world's greatest superheroes in cataclysmic combat with more sinister, savage supervillains than you can shake a flying surfboard at. Brilliantly selected by Stan Lee, the smiling sage of the Marvel Age, as his own personal all-time favorite thrillers, you'll find virtually each and every one of our most popular artists featured within such as John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Jim Starlin and Steve Ditko.