On Thursday at the Pentagon, Marvel Comics will unveil a custom comic book to be distributed free in May to U.S. forces in Iraq and around the world. Featuring the Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and other Marvel heroes, the comic will have a mammoth print run of 1 million copies. The first 150,000 will go to soldiers in the Middle East.
I doubt that this book would be a collectors item. This is solely based on the print run of this book. I am an avid comic book collector and Marvel Comics is my favorite publisher. When I was in Iraq, I spent some of my time on E-bay buying comics, since the Exchange didn’t have any.
"I am a Vietnam vet, and our people in uniform can never get treated well enough," says Marvel vice chairman Peter Cuneo. "Many are comic-book fans, and these are the heroes they grew up with. If you're in a foxhole, it's going to get passed around."
Just like the bootleg Spider-man 2 movie we bought from an Iraqi. Afterwards we had set up a projector, connected it to a laptop with speakers and beamed the filmed off the side of one of our trailers ….
I have to make some phone calls in order to get my copy!
