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Folio Society's "Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949"
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On 10/13/2019 at 4:48 PM, Illustrious said:

Anyone else pick this up when it was released a few weeks back? For those not familiar with this, it's a 272 page treasury-sized, high-end hardcover reprint of four Golden Age Timely stories selected by Roy Thomas. The issues reprinted in the book are Sub-Mariner #1, Human Torch #5, Captain America Comics #10, and All Winners Comics #19. The paper stock is a thicker, semi-gloss type, but the pages themselves retain the cream to off-white color of the comics being reprinted. Also included is a 10x7 print by artist Marco D’Alfonso. The real centerpiece of the whole collection to me is a true-to-size, facsimile reprint of Marvel Comics #1, printed to look, feel, and smell like a vintage comic from 1939. The pages themselves are some type of aged newsprint that is eerily close to the cream color and "musty smell" of some actual Golden Age comics I have from around the same era. All in all, it's an awesome package for Timely fans and Golden Age fans alike, and I highly recommend picking it up.

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/marvel-the-golden-age.html

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so that's what a freshly printed Marvel 1 would have looked like in hand in 1939 (thumbsu

Is the Marvel 1 sized accurately? 

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8 hours ago, Primetime said:

so that's what a freshly printed Marvel 1 would have looked like in hand in 1939 (thumbsu

Is the Marvel 1 sized accurately? 

I suspect that the pages would have been bone white in 1939 - even having been printed on cheap newsprint.

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3 hours ago, pemart1966 said:

I suspect that the pages would have been bone white in 1939 - even having been printed on cheap newsprint.

Seems like the reprinted pages were tinted to look aged like they did in this 1999 "Timely Comics presents All-Winners" #19 that used this same process of printing on aged-colored newsprint 20 years ago. Cover price was $3.99 US so nice mark up now for the deluxe slipped case edition with choice facsimile of Marvel #1 that is sized properly.

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@Primetime@woowoo I measured the dimensions with a ruler today just to be sure, but it looks to be right 10x7 inches as far as size goes. Is that what the original Marvel #1 measured at?

@pemart1966 The printing is actually pretty crisp, I'm not seeing any bluriness at all having it in hand. There is some slight registration mis-alignment on some panels/pages, but it believe that could be intentional since they were going for realism.

@Mmehdy Here are a few more pics as requested:

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15 minutes ago, Illustrious said:

@Primetime@woowoo I measured the dimensions with a ruler today just to be sure, but it looks to be right 10x7 inches as far as size goes. Is that what the original Marvel #1 measured at?

@pemart1966 The printing is actually pretty crisp, I'm not seeing any bluriness at all having it in hand. There is some slight registration mis-alignment on some panels/pages, but it believe that could be intentional since they were going for realism.

@Mmehdy Here are a few more pics as requested:

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Thanks. I’ve got it at 10 x 7 1/2. Pretty close though. 

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7 hours ago, Illustrious said:

@Primetime@woowoo I measured the dimensions with a ruler today just to be sure, but it looks to be right 10x7 inches as far as size goes. Is that what the original Marvel #1 measured at?

@pemart1966 The printing is actually pretty crisp, I'm not seeing any bluriness at all having it in hand. There is some slight registration mis-alignment on some panels/pages, but it believe that could be intentional since they were going for realism.

@Mmehdy Here are a few more pics as requested:

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(thumbsu

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17 hours ago, Illustrious said:

@Primetime@woowoo I measured the dimensions with a ruler today just to be sure, but it looks to be right 10x7 inches as far as size goes. Is that what the original Marvel #1 measured at?

@pemart1966 The printing is actually pretty crisp, I'm not seeing any bluriness at all having it in hand. There is some slight registration mis-alignment on some panels/pages, but it believe that could be intentional since they were going for realism.

@Mmehdy Here are a few more pics as requested:

 

 

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I love the white glove! (thumbsu

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21 hours ago, Knightsofold said:

I read something about Marvel pulling Art Spiegelman's controversial introduction/essay from this Folio Edition.  Anything worth noting?

Not as controversial as billionaire Marvel Entertainment chairman Perlmutter’s donations.  Essay is definitely worth a read.  Glad my focus is the GA.  

Minor quibbles notwithstanding, I’m close to pulling the trigger on this Folio Society set.  (thumbsu

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1 hour ago, Cat-Man_America said:

Not as controversial as billionaire Marvel Entertainment chairman Perlmutter’s donations.  Essay is definitely worth a read.  Glad my focus is the GA.  

Minor quibbles notwithstanding, I’m close to pulling the trigger on this Folio Society set.  (thumbsu

@Cat-Man_America Are you back on that liqued diet :whatthe:

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