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Marvel Value Stamp
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Like the Harker family, they try to stop it with a steak through the heart.
Frankly, I get the feeling they aren't the finest vampire hunters the world can supply.
But it's coming up to Christmas - and that can mean just one thing.
Christmas cards.
And that can mean just one thing.
Envelopes.
And that can mean just one thing.
Stamps.
And that can mean just one thing.
Marvel Value Stamps.
And that can mean just one thing.
I didn't have any.
In fact, that's not true. I actually had three.
Well, OK, that's not true either. I had loads because I had loads of Bronze Age comics but I only had three that I ever dared to physically cut out of the comics and do something with.
I'm pretty sure that was because I had more than one copy of the comics in question and was thus willing to take the scissors to them.
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In fact I only copied the skeleton. I couldn't be bothered to draw the rest, so I instead drew him in the Time Tunnel
Why he was in there, I'm not totally sure but I like to feel it was a salutary reminder that death is everywhere, even in the Time Tunnel.
Happily, death isn't in The Star Maidens or I wouldn't be able to cope with life.
I was never actually sure just what one was supposed to do with Marvel Value Stamps. Was there a booklet you could buy to stick them in?
If so, I never heard anything about it. But I always suspected that the real reasons for the Marvel Value Stamps' existence was to make you buy two copies of every comic. One to keep, knowing it'd be worth a fortune some day, and one to cut to pieces. In this way would Marvel double their sales with little extra effort. What cunning devils they were.
Anyway, that's my heartwarming tale of Marvel Value Stamps. If you have any of your own, you know just where to post them.
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