Marvel Masterworks Deluxe Library Edition Variant HC (1987-Present) 1st Edition comic books 2006

Volume 55 - 1st printing. "GOLDEN AGE ALL-WINNERS" Collects All-Winners Comics (1941) #1-4. Written by CARL BURGOS, STAN LEE, JACK KIRBY, JOE SIMON & BILL EVERETT. Art by CARL BURGOS, AL AVISON, JACK KIRBY, JOE SIMON, BILL EVERETT, JACK BINDER, PAUL GUSTAVSON, PAUL REINMAN, ALLEN SIMON, MIKE SEKOWSKY, JOHN FORTE, BOB POWELL, HOWARD JAMES & AL GABRIELE. Cover by ALEX SCHOMBURG. Introduction by Roy Thomas. Marvel Comics proudly presents more Golden Age greats, collecting the first four issues of ALL-WINNERS COMICS, from 1941-42 - newly remastered and restored. The Human Torch, Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, the Destroyer, the Whizzer and more battle for victory for America - both together and in solo adventures! Hardover, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 56 - 1st printing. "INCREDIBLE HULK" Collects Tales to Astonish #80-101 and Incredible Hulk #102. Written by STAN LEE & GARY FRIEDRICH. Art by JACK KIRBY, BILL EVERETT, JOHN BUSCEMA, GIL KANE & MARIE SEVERIN. Cover by MARIE SEVERIN. Introduction by Stan Lee. Brace yourself, True Believer, Hulk is smashing his way into another marvelous monster-sized Masterworks! The batty bullpen declareth that you'd better hide behind a Hulk-Buster because it's not a happy Hulk who faces off against the likes of bombastic Boomerang, the android Hulk-Killer and the one and only Abomination in his classic first appearance by Stan 'The Man' and Gil Kane! That's only the warm up, though! The cosmos itself shudders when the strongest man-like being in the Marvel U goes toe-to-toe with the Silver Surfer, Prince Namor and the Mighty Thor himself! Grab a crash helmet, bunker down and prepare yourself to be Hulk-inued! Hardcover, full color. NOTE: Limited to 1350 copies. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 57 - 1st printing. "TALES TO ASTONISH (ATLAS ERA)" Collects TALES TO ASTONISH (1959-1960) #1-10. Written by STAN LEE. Art by JACK KIRBY, STEVE DITKO, JOHN BUSCEMA, AL WILLIAMSON, DON HECK, and JOE SINNOTT. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Stan Lee. Marvel Masterworks have brought you classic stories from Marvel's Silver Age super-hero heyday and the start of it all with its Golden Age. Now thrill to the first offering of Marvel's Atlas Era! Before the dawn of the Marvel Age, the comics world sat astride the shoulders of Atlas Comics - a world full of gun-fighting outlaws, romantic heartbreak, death-defying heroism in battle, terrifying depths of horror, and visionary science fiction. In TALES TO ASTONISH return to the days when atomic monsters roamed the Earth and alien invasions were a daily occurrence. Marvel's classic creators will make you quake at the sight of the 9th Wonder of the World! You'll tremble before the Things on Easter Island! Beware the might of Mummex-King of the Mummies! Flee before the Giant from Outer Space! Dare defy the Floating Head! Prepare to be Astonished! Hardcover, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 57 - 2nd and later printings. "Atlas Era Tales to Astonish: Book 1!" Collects Tales to Astonish (1959-1968 1st Series) #1-10. By STAN LEE, JACK KIRBY, STEVE DITKO, JOHN BUSCEMA, AL WILLIAMSON, DON HECK, and JOE SINNOTT. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Stan Lee. Marvel Masterworks have brought you classic stories from Marvel's Silver Age super-hero heyday and the start of it all with its Golden Age. Now thrill to the first offering of Marvel's Atlas Era! Before the dawn of the Marvel Age, the comics world sat astride the shoulders of Atlas Comics - a world full of gun-fighting outlaws, romantic heartbreak, death-defying heroism in battle, terrifying depths of horror, and visionary science fiction. In TALES TO ASTONISH return to the days when atomic monsters roamed the Earth and alien invasions were a daily occurrence. Marvel's classic creators will make you quake at the sight of the 9th Wonder of the World! You'll tremble before the Things on Easter Island! Beware the might of Mummex-King of the Mummies! Flee before the Giant from Outer Space! Dare defy the Floating Head! Prepare to be Astonished! Hardcover, 264 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

Volume 58 - 1st printing. "SGT. FURY" Collects Sgt Fury (1964) #1-13. Written by STAN LEE. Art by JACK KIRBY & DICK AYERS. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Stan Lee. WHA-HOOO! It's time for Marvel's first-ever war Masterworks with tales of Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howlin' Commandos in thick of ol' WWII! And for the icing on the cake, it's a titanic team-up of the mighty talents of Sgt. Stan Lee and Infantryman Jack Kirby! That's a pair storytellers so explosive you better make sure you keep your lid on when you read this one, soldier! Prepare yourself for drama, intrigue, humor and action galore as Fury, Dum Dum Dugan and the rest of the Howlers as they battle more Nazis than you can shake a bayonet at, team-up with Captain America and Bucky, battle the nefarious Baron Strucker and Zemo, and set out to capture Adolf Hitler himself! With a pedigree like that, get off your duff and reserve your copy today, goldbrick! That's an order! Hardcover, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 59 - 1st printing. "ANT-MAN/GIANT-MAN" Collects Tales to Astonish #27 and 35-52. Written by STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER & ERNIE HART. Art by JACK KIRBY, DON HECK, LARRY LIEBER & DICK AYERS. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Dick Ayers. Burned under the magnifying glass of overwhelming demand, Mighty Marvel has given in to give you our smallest hero in his big Masterworks debut! Lee and Kirby's second hero creation, scientist Hank Pym, invented an amazing growth serum and a cybernetic helmet making him the Astonishing Ant-Man! Teamed up with the winsome Wasp, the tiny twosome battle a sensational array of mini- and maxi-sized menaces from the Scarlet Beetle to the Black Knight! And if that's not enough to occupy a man of science, he's also defending the good ol' U.S. of A's secrets from the commie hordes! But we've got more than just miniature mayhem for you, True Believer. You can look forward to the birth of the biggest Avenger there ever was-Giant-Man-so run, don't walk, and reserve your copy today! Hardcover, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $36.00

Add to cart Very Fine $36.00

Volume 60 - 1st printing. "GOLDEN AGE MARVEL MYSTERY" Collects Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) #5-8. Written & Illustrated by CARL BURGOS, PAUL GUSTAVSON, BILL EVERETT, AL ANDERS, BEN THOMPSON, and STEVE DAHLMAN. Cover by BILL EVERETT. Introduction by Roy Thomas. Marvel proudly presents more Golden Age goodness, reprinting issues 5-8 of MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS from 1940. This hardcover collection remasters and restores these early adventures, some reprinted for the very first time! See the Human Torch join the police force! Witness the execution of the Sub-Mariner! Plus: In the wake of the Sub-Mariner's attack on New York City, the Torch and the Sub-Mariner face off in their historic first meeting! Hardcover, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 61 - 1st printing. "X-MEN" Collects Uncanny X-MEN #54-66. Written by ROY THOMAS, ARNOLD DRAKE, DENNIS O'NEIL & LINDA FITE. Art by NEAL ADAMS, DON HECK, WERNER ROTH & SAL BUSCEMA. Cover by NEAL ADAMS. Introduction by Roy Thomas. 1969: The X-Men, Marvel's poorest selling title, flagging in sales and on the verge of cancellation, was in dire need of a shot in the arm. A new direction. A new vision. Enter Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, and True Believer, you had better grab onto your hat and get ready for one of the most amazing evolutions in Marvel history! These two titanic talents threw caution to the wind with sensational stories that brought the X-Men in synch with the thriving youth culture of the late '60s. Adams' lavish and dynamic visuals merged with Thomas' challenging and contemporary stories to create a comic book series that throbbed with the pulse of the times like none other. Prepare yourself for the introduction of mutant mainstay Havok, the vampiric villain Sauron, the Mutates, and X-Man-to-be Sunfire! Not to mention, the Living Pharaoh, a classic team-up with Ka-Zar in the Savage Land, as well as the return of Magneto and Professor X! Unquestionably a high-water mark of the '60s X-Men, this massive volume, loaded with extras, caps off-but will not end-the original team X-Men Masterworks! Hardcover, 294 pages, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 62 - 1st printing. "FANTASTIC FOUR" Collects Fantastic Four (1961-1996 1st Series) #94-104. Written by STAN LEE. Art by JACK KIRBY & JOHN ROMITA. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Stan Lee.

Includes Articles by John Morrow, Dick Ayers, Joe Sinnott, Roy Thomas, Mark Evanier and Greg Theakston.

Certifiably the World's Greatest Comic Collaboration, the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby Fantastic Four run stands as one of the high-water marks in the history of the medium. The ten titanic years on the title laid the very foundation of the Marvel Universe, and birthed more amazing concepts and creative characters than perhaps any series before or since. In this Masterworks volume, we celebrate the entire Lee/Kirby run with essays by critics, creators and luminaries in the field of comics. But it just ain't waxing nostalgic, True Believer! This is a Marvel comic, after all! Expect plenty of explosive action and family drama a-go-go as the FF build up to their 100th issue featuring everyone from Doc Doom to Dragon Man! They'll also help mankind take one giant leap when the Kree's robot Sentry tries to stop the Apollo 11 moon landing! Just for good measure, we'll throw in the uncanny Inhumans and Attilan, and the whole shebang comes to a head when the mutant menace, Magneto, teams up with Namor in a bid to conquer the world-Nixon is not pleased! Hardcover, 246 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 1550 copies. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 63 - 1st printing. "RAWHIDE KID" Collects RAWHIDE KID #17-25. Written by STAN LEE. Art by JACK KIRBY, DON HECK, DICK AYERS & PAUL REINMAN. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Stan Lee. Saddle up, buckaroos! It's time for the Marvel Masterworks to tame the wild, wild West with the one and only Rawhide Kid! Back before Stan 'The Man' and 'King' Kirby spun stories of sensational super heroes, they told the tale of a young man who bore two Colt six-shooters and his mission to bring law to the American frontier. After his Uncle Ben Bart was killed at the hands of outlaws, Johnny Bart made it his personal mission to bring justice to the town of Rawhide. Packed full of shootouts and showdowns, renegades and rustlers, guns and girls galore, these Western yarns will be sure to please you in the Mighty Marvel Manner! We guarantee you won't be able to hold on to your ten-gallon hat when you read the tale of the Terrible Totem, the Kid's battle against the bank robbing Bat, and the war with Wolf Waco! Lasso your copy today, True Believer! Hardcover, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 64 - 1st printing. "CAPTAIN AMERICA" Collects Captain America (1968-1996 1st Series) #101-113. Written by STAN LEE. Art by JACK KIRBY & JIM STERANKO. Cover by JIM STERANKO. Introduction by John Morrow. Mighty Marvel is unfurling a new Masterworks crafted by an incomparable trio of talents-Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Jim Steranko! It's the best of '60s Marvel dynamism and design in one Captain America-packed volume! It's all set off by four-issue rumble with the Red Skull! When the Nazi ne'er-do-well attachs an H-Bomb fuse to Cap, he has no choice but to serve the Skull or America will suffer nuclear annihilation! Even a healthy thumping on Batroc the Leaper and the Trapster, can't cure the Man Out of Time's woes over his lost companion, Bucky. Relive Cap's amazing origin and learn how he met Bucky Barnes. If all that calamity from 'The King' Kirby wasn't enough, strap on your psychedelic crash helmet for a course in Steranko! The master of the medium will take you on a ride like none other with Cap vs. the Hulk, the return of Bucky, and the death of Captain America in a battle with Hydra. We don't need to say it, but we can't help ourselves-'Nuff Said! Hardcover, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 65 - 1st printing. "IRON MAN" Collects Tales of Suspense #66-83 and Tales to Astonish #82. Written by STAN LEE, ROY THOMAS & AL HARTLEY. Art by DON HECK & GENE COLAN. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Tom Field. The Iron Avenger returns for another round of Marvelous Masterworks Mayhem, and this one's gonna go straight down to the final bell, True Believer! So buckle up your red and gold retrorockets and get ready for adventure a'plenty as only Marvel can make it! Stan 'The Man' and the Dynamo of Delineation, Don Heck, will pit Tony Stark against the undersea menace Attuma, the Dream-Maker and the massive menace of the Titanium Man in classics without compare. But then the order changeth! After defining the series for nearly 30 issues, Don Heck passes the torch to no less than Gene 'The Dean' Colan, whose lush illustrations take the Invincible Iron Man to spectacular heights! Yup, Mssrs. Colan and Lee dive into a who's who as the Mandarin returns, Ultimo attacks and Iron Man goes toe-to-toe with Namor the Sub-Mariner in one of Marveldom's earliest cross-over epics! This baby's so going to move so quick that you won't have to worry about rust, but you may just have to slap on a pair of oven mitts before handling! Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 1475 copies. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 66 - 1st printing. "HUMAN TORCH" Collects Strange Tales #101-107 and ANNUAL 2. Written by STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER, JERRY SIEGEL, ROBERT BERNSTEIN & ERNIE HART. Art by JACK KIRBY & DICK AYERS. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Dick Ayers. Turn back the clock to 1962. After the debut of a quiet little magazine called The Fantastic Four and a relatively unknown teen hero named Spider-Man, Mighty Marvel decided to go out on a limb and put these two risky ideas together into a featuring starring...The Human Torch. With Jack Kirby on art, man, talk about yer risky business, True Believers. But, believe it or not, yes, even with that kind of pedigree it was a sure-fire hit! Johnny Storm the thrill-seeking, impulsive teen wonder of the Fantastic Four set the world on fire in these scorchin' solo stories! He's going to head-to-head against none other than Namor the Sub-Mariner, Spider-Man, Captain America, Paste-Pot Pete, the Wizard, the Sandman and the Living Bomb! If that ain't diagnosis teenage angst, than you can call me Freud! Hardcover, 272 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 1460 copies. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 68 - 1st printing. "SPIDER-MAN" Collects AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Vol. 1) #68-77 and MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #14. Written by STAN LEE Art by JOHN ROMITA, JIM MOONEY & JOHN BUSCEMA. Cover by JOHN ROMITA. Introduction by John Romita, Sr. It's time for another round of webslinging wonderment by two of the men who put the 'master' in Masterworks, Stan 'The Man' Lee and 'Jazzy' John Romita. They'll be coming at you in this arachnid eighth volume with a storyline as epic as they come: The Saga of the Stone Tablet! All the swingin' calamity and social consciousness kicks off with the Kingpin's quest to decipher an ancient clay tablet whose secrets promise great power. Poor ol' Spidey gets into the mix and after saving the day finds himself branded Public Enemy No. 1 ('natch). With the Kingpin on one side and J. Jonah Jameson turning up the heat in the Daily Bugle, things go from bad to horrible with the introduction of Man-Mountain Marko and Maggia bossman, Silvermane. It's a Peter Parker pressure cooker only gets that only gets turned up from there! Also featuring battles with Quicksilver, the Shocker, and the Lizard along with an extra-special bonus, the 1968 Stan Lee/Ross Andru Spidey yarn from Marvel Super-Heroes 14. Hardcover, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 68 - 1st printing. "ATLAS ERA - TALES OF SUSPENSE" Collects TALES OF SUSPENSE 1-10. Written by STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER & VARIOUS. Art by JACK KIRBY, STEVE DITKO, DON HECK, JOE SINNOTT, AL WILLIAMSON, BILL EVERETT, JOHN BUSCEMA, & RUSS HEATH. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. What's Halloween without a little scare? Well, how about a big scare?! A big scare in the form of monsters galore, and another awesome Atlas Era addition to the Marvel Masterworks! In 1958 Atlas Comics Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee was joined by two titanic talents: Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Together this trio of storytellers launched Tales of Suspense and its sister title, Tales to Astonish, and along with them the beginnings of a creative revival that would change comics forever. With startling twist-enders featuring Martians, killer robots, and massive monsters like Diablo, Cyclops and Monstro they, hand in hand with a growing group of artists including Don Heck, Joe Sinnott and John Buscema, began to burn up the racks with a style and creativity that comics hadn't seen in years. With artwork by an absolute who's who of comic-book talents, this volume is an absolute must-have for fans with a desire to dig into the foundation would be built into the Marvel Age of Comics! So strap on your tin-foil hat, grab your ray gun, and get ready to dive into one of the most amazing eras of comics history! Featuring an introduction by noted Atlas Era historian, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Hardcover, 272 pages, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $44.00

Volume 69 - 1st printing. Collects THOR (Vol. 1) 131-140 & ANNUAL 2. Written by STAN LEE. Art by JACK KIRBY. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Introduction by Stan Lee. We've been ordered from on high, True Believers, and Marvel doesn't say 'Nay' to our ol' buddy Odin! That's right, it's time for another captivating Masterworks collection of the one and only Mighty Thor! A masterpiece of immortal action, cosmic scope, and boundless drama, Stan and Jack's Thor collaborations mark a cornerstone of the Marvel Universe, and that's no small accomplishment coming from the imaginations of the most celebrated creators in comics! And boy, oh boy, bunky, do they knock it up a notch, a cosmic notch, with the tales we'll be bringing you here! It all begins when the Thunder God is captured by Rigellian colonizers and taken on a trip to the Black Galaxy to confront the one and only Ego, the Living Planet! It's non-stop action, action, action from there as he journeys to Wundagore Mountain to meet the matchless High Evolutionary and his menagerie of man-beasts! It all wraps up with a trio of titanic tussles between Odin's Son and Ulik the Troll, the Growing Man, and the Destroyer! There's a soft spot to these tales too, so don't forget your hanky as Thor struggles to reconcile his love for the mortal Jane Foster, and then there's the return of a certain Lady Sif...The cup runneth over with drama and delight! Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 1625 copies. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 70 - 1st printing. Collects AVENGERS (Vol. 1) #51-58, ANNUAL #2, & UNCANNY X-MEN #45. Written by ROY THOMAS. Art by JOHN BUSCEMA, DON HECK, and WERNER ROTH. Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA. Introduction by Roy Thomas. Get ready for Earth's Mightiest Heroes matched with two of comics' mightiest talents, Roy Thomas and John Buscema, as the Marvel Masterworks take you on a trip through one of the most stellar creative periods in Avengers' history! This baby's full to the brim with an amazing array watershed Avengers moments-the Black Panther joins the team, a pitched battle between the Avengers and the X-Men, the debut of the new Masters of Evil, the details behind Cap's fateful battle with Baron Zemo, a reality-bending battle between the current Avengers and the original Avengers, and the first appearance of the evil Ultron-5! Oh, and don't worry, we didn't forget-it all closes out on one heck of a high note with the first-ever appearance of the Vision and one of the most famous stories in all of Marveldom, "Even an Android Can Cry!" Bring your tissues, True Believer, 'cause this one's gonna get ya right there. Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 1550 copies. Cover price $54.99.

Add to cart Fine $30.00

Volume 71 - 1st printing. "GOLDEN AGE - ALL-WINNERS!" Collects All Winners Comics (1941) #5-8. By Carl Burgos, Howard James, John Forte, Harry Sahle, Al Avison, and Bob Powell. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Introduction by Greg Thickston. See the golden age in its glory as Captain America stops a plot against General Douglas MacArthur! The Human Torch foils a plan to freeze the English Channel! The Destroyer fights the forces of the Devil himself! Plus the Sub-Mariner, the Whizzer, and more! With such wartime villains as the Stone-Man Slayer, Doctor Togu the Vampire, the Mock Mikado, and Doctor Crime, one of the few enemies Captain America had to fight more than once! Plus meet little-known characters like the Black Avenger, Raffles the Cracksman, and the Whizzer's sidekick Slow Motion Jones! With text stories by Mickey Spillane! Hardcover, 280 pages, full color. Cover price $54.99.