*Marvel: This seldom seen Marvel Annual from 1964 boasts ‘Six big, thrilling, uncut origin tales of your Mighty Marvel Super-Heroes!’ plus ‘An actual unretouched photo of virtually every member of our Merry Marvel Bullpen!” This is fine as long as you can get your head round their definition of uncut and bear in mind that there’s no photo of Steve Ditko! The origins of Spider-Man, the Hulk, Ant-Man/Giant-Man & the Wasp, Thor, Sgt Fury and his Howling Doo-dads and Iron Man are all featured, with the full stories or sometimes the relevant pages from their origin tales. As far as I know, this is the first reprint of these stories. This is a reasonable pence stamped copy with a small upper spine split, edge wear with small, unobtrusive creasing and a small strip off the top of the last page, which affects mostly the margin and encroaches into one word in the Thor story, which appears to be ‘the’. We haven’t had a copy of this through our hands for many years. 
PICTURED: MARVEL TALES ANNUAL #1 GD p £40 SOLD