Marvel Masterworks Deluxe Library Edition Variant TPB (2009-2014 Marvel) comic books 2009

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The Amazing Spider-Man: Book 1!" Collects Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15 and The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998 1st Series) #1-10.

Written by STan Lee. Art and cover by Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby. Introduction by Stan Lee.

Celebrate Marvel's 70th anniversary by experiencing the tales of the world's most-famous super heroes from the very beginning!

The Marvel Masterworks have brought readers deluxe hardcover collections of Marvel's classics from the Golden Age, Atlas Era, and the mighty Marvel Age, and now you can join in the Masterworks excitement with our new, monthly Marvel Masterworks trade paperbacks. And where better to start than where comics' most robust line of archival comic collections began - the Amazing Spider-Man! In 1962 in the pages of a comic book slated for cancellation, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko gave birth to one of the most-enduring icons in American popular culture-the one and only Amazing Spider-Man!

Turning the concept of a super hero on its head, they imbued the young, guilt-ridden Peter Parker with the fantastic powers of an arachnid and the fantastic pressures of an everyday teenager. The combination was pure magic. So join us in the following pages as we present stories of spectacular web-slinging adventure from Spidey's very beginning including, the tragic origin that started it all, the first appearances of the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson, Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, the Vulture, Electro, and guest-star nods by the Fantastic Four and Human Torch.

And to top it off, we've packed this volume full of bonuses galore, including the complete original artwork to Spider-Man's Amazing Fantasy #15 origin from the Library of Congress archives!

Softcover, 272 pages, full color. All Ages

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

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Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Fantastic Four: Book 1!" Collects Fantastic Four (1961-1996 1st Series) #1-10.

Written by Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby, George Klein, Sol Brodsky, and Dick Ayers. Cover by Jack Kirby and George Klein. Introduction by Stan Lee.

In 1961 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby lit the fuse on the greatest revolution in comic book history, the Marvel Age of Comics, and right here in the pages of The Fantastic Four, you can experience it from page one. With the space race, on Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue Storm and Johnny Storm shoot for the stars, but after their craft is bombarded by cosmic rays, they return to Earth with the startling powers of the Fantastic Four!

These weren't just any super heroes, though, they were a realistic, relatable, bickering and loveable family that couldn't float their rent and didn't always enjoy their superpowers.

So come join the Marvel Masterworks and witness the first appearance of such Marvel U. cornerstones as the Skrulls and Dr. Doom, the Sub-Mariner's return, the debut of the Mole Man and his many monsters, Miracle Man, the Puppet Master and more!

Softcover, 272 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

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Volume 3 - 1st printing. "The X-Men: Book 1!" Collects The Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #1-10.

Written by Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman, and Chic Stone. Cover by Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky. Introduction by Stan Lee.

Welcome to the uncanny world of Marvel's mutant adventurers, the X-Men!

Billled as "The Strangest Super-Heroes of All!" the X-Men blasted onto the comic-book scene in 1963, as the Marvel Comics revolution mounted a full-scale reinvention of four-color adventure like no other! You'll feast your eyes on the foundation of one of comic's most-famous franchises in these first ten issues.

It's all here from the very beginning with the debut of Cyclops, Angel, Beast, Iceman and Marvel Girl, Professor X's teen team with a mission of peace and brotherhood for man and mutant, in their first battle with the Master of Magnetism, Magneto. You'll also read the first appearances of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Marvel Universe mainstays, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, the villainous Blob and Unus the Untouchable, as well as the reinvention of the Golden Age jungle man, Ka-Zar!

Written by Stan "The Man" Lee and illustrated by Jack "King" Kirby, it's super-hero adventure at its very best!

Softcover, 248 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

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Volume 4 - 1st printing. "The Avengers: Book 1!" Collects The Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #1-10.

Written by Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Paul Reinman, George Roussos, Chic Stone, Vince Collett, and Don Heck. Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. Introduction by Stan Lee.

Pick up the adventures of Earth's Mightiest Heroes from day one with the MARVEL MASTERWORKS!

Comicdom's greatest assemblage of super heroes burst onto the scene in 1963 as Marvel Comics revolutionized the comic-adventure art form. Gathering together to face the evil Loki, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp and the Mighty Thor formed the improbable core of the ever-changing super-team. But it was three issues later when, from the ice of the northern Atlantic, Captain America returned from the frozen depths that the Avengers truly took form.

Illustrated by Jack Kirby and Don Heck, and written by Stan "The Man" Lee, you'll find the first appearances of Kang the Conqueror, Wonder Man, the Space Phantom and Baron Zemo, the debut of the Masters of Evil and the Hulk's departure from the team and "subsequent team-up with the Sub-Mariner to take down his former comrades.

They're Marvel Masterworks one and all!

Softcover, 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

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Volume 5 - 1st printing. "The Amazing Spider-Man: Book 2!" Collects The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998 1st Series) #11-19 and ANNUAL #1.

Written by Stan Lee. Art by Steve Ditko. Cover by Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby. Introduction by Stan Lee.

Welcome back for another helping of Amazing Spider-Man milestones by the team that made the Webslinger a worldwide icon, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko! Their troubled teenager took comics by storm in 1962, and the first round of stories were just a warm up!

In these pages you'll be witness to the debut of more classic Spidey foes including Mysterio, Kraven the Hunter and no less than the Green Goblin himself! And as if one foe at a time wasn't enough, the Sinister Six unite for the first time in the colossal AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1, a jam-packed 72-page Lee/Ditko extravaganza!

Also featuring the rampaging Hulk, the Human Torch and Spidey's first team-up with Daredevil, but as every Spider-phile knows, it's not costumes alone that make the saga of Peter Parker so compelling, it's his everyday cohorts. From Flash Thompson to Betty Brant, dear old Aunt May to "Jolly" Jonah Jameson, they make for incomparable drama, so don't back, reserve that copy today, True Believer!

Softcover, 278 pages, full color. All Ages

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

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Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Fantastic Four: Book 2!" Collects Fantastic Four (1961-1996 1st Series) #11-20 and Fantastic Four (1961-1996) Annual #1.

Written by Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, and Steve Ditko. Cover by Jack Kirby. Introduction by Stan Lee.

The Fantastic Four return in another collection of classic tales by the team that built the House of Ideas, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby!

Creating the World's Greatest Comic Magazine wasn't enough for these two talents, now they had to prove it-and here how! Across ten trend-setting issues, the Thing and the Hulk face-off for the first time; the FF journey to the moon to grapple with the Red Ghost and his Super Apes and first encounter the cosmic presence of The Watcher; the villainous Puppet Master bends the might of Namor, the Sub-Mariner, to his will; the Mad Thinker unleashes his Awesome Android; Rama-Tut (a.k.a. Kang the Conqueror) sends the FF to ancient Egypt; Dr. Doom returns in a two-part epic guest-starring the Astonishing Ant-Man; the Molecule Man menaces the world; and, for the first time, the wild and wacky Impossible Man drops in from the planet Poppup.

Oh, and we couldn't forget, it's all topped off with a star-studded, action-packed Annual featuring the Sub-Mariner's all-out aquatic invasion of New York City-with bonus pinups-a-plenty and a back-up feature pitting the FF vs. Spider-Man!

Softcover, 304 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. "X-Men: Book 2!" Collects The Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #11-21.

Written by Stan Lee and Roy Thomas. Art by Jack Kirby, Chic Stone, Vince Colletta, Werner Roth, Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers, and Alex Toth. Cover by Jack Kirby and Frank Giacoia. Introduction by Stan Lee.

Launched by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the X-Men blended super-hero action, teen angst, and a metaphor for the turbulent social and racial issues of the '60s into one potent package!

After laying the foundation for what would become comics' biggest franchise, Stan and Jack passed the headmaster's role of the Xavier School to Roy Thomas and Werner Roth, who would come into their own while crafting the tales of Marvel's merry mutants.

Collected in this second amazing MASTERWORKS volume, you'll find the first appearance of the unstoppable Juggernaut, the cosmic Stranger, the mutant Mimic, and in a classic three-part saga, the mutant-hunting robot Sentinels. And for good measure we're topping it off with the return of Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil mutants and a two-part tale featuring Lucifer, the early nemesis of Professor X.

They're mutant milestones one and all!

Softcover, 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

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Volume 8 - 1st printing. "The Incredible Hulk: Book 1!" Collects The Incredible Hulk (1962-1999 1st series) #1-6.

Written by Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, and Steve Ditko. Cover by Jack Kirby. Introduction by Stan Lee.

Dr. Robert Bruce Banner may have the appearance of a mild-mannered scientist, but after being caught in a gamma bomb explosion, he became the unstoppable engine of destruction known as the Incredible Hulk!

Hot off the success of the FANTASTIC FOUR, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's atomic update on the Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde tale, mixed the joy of giant monsters with Cold War intrigue and added a heavy dose of psychological drama to create a formula that even decades later has readers clamoring for more. So for each and every purple pants loving Hulkophile, the MARVEL MASTERWORKS are proud to present the Hulk's original six-issue solo series in one amazingly restored volume.

You'll meet Bruce Banner, Rick Jones, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross of the U.S. Army and the lovely Betty Ross for the first time. You'll see the Hulk's first appearance as the gray goliath before he turned that familiar shade of green. You'll watch the Hulk bust knuckles with the far-out Toad Men, the subterranean Tryannus, monstrous Mongu, and the Metal Master, and to make it that much better, the incomparable Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko illustrate it all.

Softcover, 164 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

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Volume 9 - 1st printing. "The Avengers: Book 2!" Collects The Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #11-20.

Written by Stan Lee, Larry Ivie, and Larry Lieber. Art by Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Chic Stone, Dick Ayers, Mike Esposito, and Wally Wood. Cover by Jack Kirby and Chic Stone. Introduction by Stan Lee.

Brought together to fight the biggest menaces in the Marvel Universe, Iron Man, Thor, Giant-Man and the Wasp represented the heavy-hitters of the super-hero set, but Marvel heroes don't just hang out, they live, breathe, argue-and even fall out.

In an innovative twist that would come to define the Avengers, Stan Lee chose to have those original Avengers depart, leaving Captain America alone to carry on. But it was who replaced them that really got reader's attention. Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch-all conflicted and villains in their own right-became Cap 's new recruits creating a dynamic, unpredictable and exciting quartet that to many would become the Avengers's heart and soul. So sit and back enjoy the evolution of Earth's Mightiest Heroes as they battle Kang the Conqueror, the Mole Man, the Red Ghost, Count Nefaria, Baron Zemo's Masters of Evil, the Mandarin and the Swordsman.

With guest appearances by Spider-Man the Incredible Hulk himself, it's a Marvel Masterwork from beginning to end!

Softcover, 224 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

Volume 10 - 1st printing. "The Amazing Spider-Man: Book 3!" Collects The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998 1st Series) #20-30 and ANNUAL #2.

Written by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Art and cover by Steve Ditko. Introduction by Stan Lee.

There's no Spidey like Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Spidey, and the MARVEL MASTERWORKS are here to prove it once again with another heaping helping of webslinging wonderment!

Teenage outcast and king of the wallflowers, Peter Parker, may have the most amazing powers in the super-hero biz, but good luck coming up with more downsides than this cat. Not only does his boss, J. Jonah Jameson consider him Public Enemy #1, he's sending not just one, but two villains after him-Mac Gargan, the Scorpion, and the vicious Spider-Slayer. And to add insult to injury, the Human Torch one-ups him against the Beetle and the Circus of Crime offers a whole host of reasons to hate peanuts. After that anybody'd need therapy, so Spidey hits the couch, and the couch hits right back with a mysterious foe that's going to give Parker's complexes complexes! To make matters worse, the Green Goblin teams up with the Crime-Master, Aunt May finds a certain red and blue costume, and the Molten Man makes high school graduation a day to remember in Forest Hills, Queens.

Top that off with a classic team-up between Lee and Ditko's greatest creations, Spidey and Dr. Strange, and you've got yourself a cover-to-cover classic!

Softcover, 272 pages, full color. All Ages

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $14.00

Add to cart Near Mint $14.00

Volume 11 - 1st printing. "Uncanny X-Men: Book 1!" Collects GIANT-SIZE X-MEN (1974) #1 and Uncanny X-Men #94-100. Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT, LEN WEIN and BILL MANTLO. Art by DAVE COCKRUM. Cover by DEAN WHITE. The Children of the Atom, runts of the Silver Age litter, are reborn as the All-New, All-Different team of mutants that took the world by storm! With the original team held hostage by unknown forces, Professsor X recruits an international cast including Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Banshee, Sunfire and Warpath to take on the mantle of the Uncanny X-Men! Marked by progressive politics and personal conflicts, these All-New X-Men redefined super-hero teams for a generation of readers that can't get enough X-adventure to this day. Here for the first time you'll see Wolverine throw down with Cyclops; experience the shocking death of an X-Man; tremble at the return of the towering Sentinels; watch as X-Man battles X-Man as the new team attempts to tear apart the old; and bear witness to the sacrifice of Jean Grey. They're mutant milestones of the highest order, one and all - the stories that set the table for a comics revolution - so reserve that copy today, True Believer! Softcover, 192 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 12 - 1st printing. "Uncanny X-Men: Book 2!" Collects Uncanny X-Men #101-110. Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT and BILL MANTLO. Art by DAVE COCKRUM, JOHN BYRNE, BOB BROWN and TONY DEZUNIGA. Cover by DAVE COCKRUM and DEAN WHITE. Setting a new standard for Marvel super heroes wasn't enough for mssrs. Claremont and Cockrum. In their second Marvel Masterworks outing with the Uncanny X-Men they aren't just aiming for All-New and All-Different, they're shooting for the stars! But before they can reach those heights Jean Grey must fall from the heavens in order to save her teammates' lives-and to reemerge from the ashes as The Phoenix! And though they may have saved one of their own, the X-Men must next face a fight from within the family. The Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy drive the Children of Atom to the edge of disaster, pushing Storm into the depths of childhood horrors and testing the mettle of Colossus and Wolverine to their utmost. And then, with the X-Men at their seeming breaking point, comes the return of Magneto! Then it's off to the stars and to the Shi'ar empire to meet the Starjammers, Lilandra, Deathbird, and the Imperial Guard, not to mention a certain artist named John Byrne! Also featuring the first appearance of Weapon Alpha, the cornerstone of both Alpha Flight and Wolverine's storied past in Weapon X, and a baseball game so wild it could only be the X-Men - this second volume of Uncanny Masterworks extends the dynamic legacy of Marvel's merry mutants! Softcover, 192 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.