The Marvel Vault: A Museum-in-a-book With Rare Collectibles from the World of Marvel

I bought this book and it provides a nice overview of Marvel Comics from its pulp magazine roots to its current incarnation as a multimedia giant.
The reader is given glimpses of the inside of Marvel, however the main gimmick of this collection is the reproductions of various Marvel items; and this is where the disappointment lies. Some of the items like the buttons are just paper reproductions (not actual badges); the reprint of the Marvel No Prize Book is dark in color; and the reproduction of a Marvel Convention Program is so small as to be unreadable. In all cases full size reproductions could have been slid into the plastic binder pockets.
Some of the ommissions are glaring. Marvel Value Stamps are reproduced and it is stated that a prize was given for a full set of stamps; but what was the prize?
The binding is spiral so turn the pages slowly and you will have to settle in your mind if you want to throw out the cardboard backed inside the box or retain it for mint value.
While the Marvel Vault makes a nice gift book; a more complete and fun to read history (including key story reprints) is Marvel- Five Decades of the World's Greatest Comics by noted comic historian Les DanielsBy M. B. RENTZLER (Brooklyn, NY USA). BUY NOW