Friday, November 16, 2007

The Mighty Marvel Vault

Wow. Just . . . wow.

This is some box set.

This is more than just a comic book book. They're calling it a "Museum-In-A-Book," and it comes complete with the kind of stuff you'd expect to find in a museum of Marveldom.

It's got everything from a membership certificate for the Merry Marvel Marching Society to the oft-coveted No Prize (did anybody else try for one of these things and never get one?).

Like just about everybody, I'm as big a fan of Stan Lee's wonderful flair for promotion as I am of the comic book superheroes he created, and this looks to be a celebration of both.

I can't imagine buying this as a collector's item, because it would be just too much fun to flip through, but I guess it would be possible. If you ask me, though, this will be way cooler on your coffee table than that book of famous dogs through history your crazy aunt got you for Christmas last year because it was on the discount rack at the bookstore.

Excelsior!