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1989 · 90829 — New York City: Marvel Entertainment Group Inc 1989. Presumed First Edition First printing. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. Bender & Ryan. The format is approximately 17 inches by 11 inches folded in half twice creating 4 panels per side. Scarce surviving uncolored in copy. One side of the poster has as a single black and whitegraphic images of many marvel characters including Spider-Man Thor Iron-Man etc. ready to color. The second side has four panels and includes a cross word puzzle a word search a comic strip for you to color and write your own comic and a title panel. This poster may originally come in an associated Marvel Comic Super Hero Activity Book. Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31 2009 and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman as Timely Comics and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas Comics. The Marvel era began in August 1961 with the launch of The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee Jack Kirby Steve Ditko and numerous others. The Marvel brand which had been used over the years and decades was solidified as the company's primary brand. Marvel counts among its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man Wolverine Iron Man Captain America Hulk Thor Doctor Strange Daredevil Black Panther and Captain Marvel as well as popular superhero teams such as the Avengers X-Men Fantastic Four and Guardians of the Galaxy. Its stable of well-known supervillains includes Doctor Doom Magneto Green Goblin Venom Red Skull Loki Ultron Thanos Apocalypse and Galactus. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe with most locations mirroring real-life places; many major characters are based in New York City. Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc unknown