Captain Marvel Jr club

Just a quick shout-out for this lot in the latest ebay auction from phil-comics. I love this sort of ephemera and, given the bids so far, I know I'm not alone!

At the time of typing the winning bid is currently £113 - but I'm sure it'll go for more 

Bidding ends of Sunday evening, good luck if you bid

A rarely seen membership card for the Captain Marvel JR Club of the 1950s. Folded, this measures approx 5 x 3.75 inches, so opened out it's approx 5 x 7.5 inches. Quite rigid cardboard printed on both sides. The rear cover has been coloured in paint or pen and there are several tiny ink dots to the corner. Light paint smudge to the edge. On the inside the membership number (891) is written in pen, as is the name "John". A few light pen lines and several what look like yellow crayon (possibly light paint) lines, between the letters of the alphabet. Slight spine edge rubbing.

Overall a GD example.

Boom! that sold for a lot more than even I thought it would...

UPDATED: Young Marvelman club

Here on the blog I'm always happy to feature ephemera associated with comics characters because, well, it's so ephemeral and thus much less likely to survive! That makes it more interesting, to me, to collect than, say, a specific run of comics.

Anyway, I'm indebted to the Facebook page of Paul Chambers (who runs the comic shop in Glastonbury) who shared this image recently...

I've no idea how much (Young) Marvelman ephemera is out there but this'll be the post that gets updated each time I find a new bit. Thanks to Paul for starting me off on this search.

UPDATE: I'm very grateful to friend of the blog Derek Wilson for sharing these rare further images of (Young) Marvelman ephemera with me...

Young Marvelman club

Here on the blog I'm always happy to feature ephemera associated with comics characters because, well, it's so ephemeral and thus much less likely to survive! That makes it more interesting, to me, to collect than, say, a specific run of comics.

Anyway, I'm indebted to the Facebook page of Paul Chambers (who runs the comic shop in Glastonbury) who shared this image recently...

I've no idea how much (Young) Marvelman ephemera is out there but this'll be the post that gets updated each time I find a new bit. Thanks to Paul for starting me off on this search.