Someplace in the 70s, Marvel comics started printing full color "stamps" in the letters pages of their comics. Each one was numbered, and represented a different hero or character.
Was there ever a master list of characters by numbers, or issue by issue?
What were these numbers used for? What was the purpose of the stamps?
Did anyone ever collect them all? Was there any reward for them?
Other than an excuse to mutilate your comics and lessen their resale value, what good were they?
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http://www.mvstamps.com/mvs-stamps1.htm
As to the history behind it:
http://marvel.wikia.com/Value_Stamps
Thanks John! You saved me from looking up which issue of Amazing Heroes had them listed and typing all 100! You really can find anything on the internet.
You can easily see the influx of the Monster heroes here as well as heavy Spider-Man and Thor references. Also surprising are the omissions! No Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath/Yellowjacket, Wasp, Scarlet Witch, Valkyrie, Nighthawk, the Angel, the Beast, Prof. X or Nick Fury-Agent of SHIELD!
Yet they included the Plunderer, Grim Reaper, the Golem, Satanna and easily the most obscure: Byrrah, the Sub-Mariner's evil cousin!
Thanks guys, I had no idea that the had been so extensively collected, or written up. I guess this happened during that period when I was away at college and not reading comics... period.