Microcollections 1.1: More Superhero Ephemera

A few years back I posted a short write-up of some of the weird things that accumulate around a superhero-heavy comics collection. These were mostly toys from fast-food restaurants or Kinder Eggs, little tiny avatars of the bigger ideas represented by superheroes. A chunk of my dissertation would have looked at this ephemera, considering it in the same way that we might the various religious trinkets that people never tire of making, selling, or buying.

Aside from the toys, there are other bits and pieces that have accumulated. Every so often, when a big event is happening, publishers will release promotional items. Or, back in the old days, many of the comics magazines (Wizard primary amongst them) included special giveaways. That's what some of this is.

I honestly have no idea where I got these stickers. I think they're from a Wizard magazine.

This bookmark, as I noted above, was a promotional item when the Marvel Knights line started up. I enjoyed all of these series, though the Black Panther one by Priest and Texeira stands out. So good.

Go on. Guess which crossover this was a promotional piece for.

     

I've had these stickers for a long time. Again, no idea where they came from. They're copyrighted 2001, so I probably found them at a garage sale.

And finally, some commemorative Superman stamps from a couple of years ago. We Canadians like to lay some claim to Superman, as creator and artist Joe Shuster was born in Toronto, though he moved to Cleveland quite early. But that's okay. We'll accept a bit of credit, quietly and politely, and we know that all the good bits of the character - they're the Canadian bits ;P.