The Marvel No-Prize Book

(Marvel, 1983)
Marvel

Marvel’s intrepid Stan Lee is nothing if not a grand promoter. And nowhere is his particular genius more evident than in the “No-Prize.” In the 1960s and 1970s, this “award” was sent to fans who pointed out blunders in Marvel books. So, when you read a comic where Captain America administered the coup de grâce to an opponent, challenging—“Only one of us is going to leave this room alive…and it won’t be me!”—or when heroes referred to each other by their (supposedly unknown) real names, you could rest assured that a no-prize was in the mail to the fan who first pointed out the mistake.

In reality, the no-prizes were urgently inscribed—but empty—envelopes. That didn’t stop millions of fans from trying to be the first on the block to earn one of these coveted awards by catching Marvel’s mistakes—the biggest and best of which are collected in this compilation of Marvel’s greatest goofs.

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Artist

#1

January, 1983
Cover Price: $1.00
6 copies available from $2.20

Stan Lee, James Owsley

Jack Kirby, Bob Camp, Steve Ditko, Gene Colan, Don Heck, John Byrne