*Marvel: Well, here’s a peculiarity; famed for larger-than-life heroes, Marvel, in 1966, published six of the smallest comic books ever made – a Guinness-authenticated record which remains unbroken to this day! Measuring a mere 2cm in height (slightly smaller than a standard postage stamp, for those of you who don’t do metric) these Marvel Mini-Books were distributed via gum-ball machines throughout the US, and could be yours, at the time, for an American penny. The comics were also given away to members of Marvel’s fan club, the Merry Marching Marvel Society, and, bizarrely, they were also sold in packs as cake decorations! Either 48 or 52 tiny pages per issue, with glued spines, (which, decades later, are nigh-impossible to open without ‘snapping’ the comic), they starred Marvel’s blockbuster sales juggernauts of the day: Captain America, Spider-Man, the Hulk, Thor, Sgt. Fury and – yes! -Millie the Model! We have a set of all six; four have been unopened and remain Very Fine. Millie and Nick Fury have been opened by curious and now remorseful hands, and while complete, have broken spines, and are only Fair. Buy them – but don’t read them! (Not advice we’re accustomed to giving here at 30th C…)
PICTURED: MARVEL MINI-BOOKS SET OF 6 (4 X VF, 2 X FA) £60 SOLD