Marvel Donates Comics



Here's a story that's been worked over by just about everybody, but is nice enough I don't really mind repeating it here: France's National Centre for Comic Books and Images in Angouleme (site of the world's biggest comics Festival) has received a donation of hundreds of thousands of comic book from Marvel, stretching back into the 1950s. They will keep a signficant portion for their own holdings, and make other comics available for other important European institutions. Although this is good news, it's slightly sad that probably no institution in the U.S. that would want these books could possibly handle such a donation.

I am sort of interested in finding out if the other comics that the news items say Marvel originally offered that were rejeced as simply too much found a home or if they simply weren't historically valuable offerings. I also wonder if the 1950s stuff is a significant part of the collection. While some of publisher Martin Goodman's 1950s comics were so casually produced and often so shameless in simply following popular trends that they have had little in the way of high-profile exposure even as collectibles, there remain some really interesting comics, including Kirby and Ditko "monster" sci-fi, and art from people like Joe Maneely and John Severin.

If you want to imagine what you might be missing if you live on this side of the ocean, it's always fan to scope covers at the Timely-Atlas cover gallery site.

That's a cover from '50s Goodman workhouse and Stan Lee favorite Joe Maneely.
 
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