Stan Lee 1960's Merry Marvel Marching Society Fan Club

[ziggycat999]

The MMMS is more lively here 40 years later,on the internet,than really exisited. Thanks for the fun.

[tellshiar]

@ziggycat999 I agree: It actually has more following and people who want the kits today then back then.

[ifyoucatchmydriftbud]

Make Mine Marvel!

[tellshiar]

@ifyoucatchmydriftbud Absolutely!

[ifyoucatchmydriftbud]

@tellshiar Not many people know this about me,but when I was a kid I had a huge stuttering problem.I also didn't like reading much.A Teacher suggested to my Mom if she let me read comics,my speech would improve & I'd want to read.She was right on both accounts!Who says you can't learn anything from comics?Today I am working on becoming a cartoonist myself.I'm also proud to be the first to be allowed to read those warrior comics in my family as my Mom called them.

[tellshiar]

@ifyoucatchmydriftbud That's great! Stan Lee knew that his redefining of comics through story and writing would change the industry. His intellectual prose appealed to many readers, young and old, and colleges were the most popular venue Stan Lee spoke at in the 1960's.

Comics kinda had a negative effect for my teacher. I was too aggresive in school so my teacher suggested taking away my horror comics (They were my father's and all EC Comics from the 1950's), so I was allowed Heroes only!

[ifyoucatchmydriftbud]

@tellshiar I was the hyperactive type of kid who had an overactive imagination.Only when I discovered comic books they only boosted my imagination!Today I got my own webcomic called "Tommy the MischiefMaker" on FaceBook which I first created at the age of 11.Only in my teens when I moved to a new school they didn't like it how I paid more attention to drawing & ;ess attention to my studies, but I never let it stop me alltogether!I did gain interrest in my studies when we got a new Teacher.

[vtkfxtpsxiz]

I still have my MMMS button and membership card and one of the stickers with Ben Grimm on it. For many years I thought probably nobody remembers the Merry Marvel Marching Society. I'm pleased that some do!

[tellshiar]

@vtkfxtpsxiz Oh yeah there is a big demand, especially in the U.K. and Brazil! Most people don't even realize that the Orange Thing "MMMS Wants You" is actually a "sticker". I sold one of them to guy on eBay and he said I ripped him off because it was just a piece of paper. I told him that they're the old style where you had to moisten the back with water. He thought it was the peel-away kind.

[pgf95]

if theres a "GOD":

God save Stan Lee.

[rick00770]

Thanks, I was big marvel fan, if I had some of the old ones I had they'd be worth huddled of dollars, who knew I started with ff 4 issue 12, even had original daredevil

[willosaurus1]

Hey I love buying and looking at that old school marvel comics stuff, thanks for the throw back in time...

[FoxPlant2006]

Why don't they do something like that now? They just don't try anymore!

[tellshiar]

@FoxPlant2006 Marvel tried in the 1990's with WAM (Wild Agents Of Marvel) fan club. But, it didn't do well. The fan clubs will, sadly, be just a treasure from the past never to be repeated . . .

[FoxPlant2006]

@tellshiar Sadly true. But we can dream can't we?

[jmen4ever]

Back in 1982, whilst working at a comic shop, I got a coverless spidy 4, with a membership card left inside, that is shown at 4:00

[tellshiar]

That's a cool story, and I just bought a 1966 Marvel "Letter From The Editor" postcard that the seller found inside the pages of Captain America #100 (1968).

[slavko123496]

Stan Lee has Deformation! His deformation is his mind! Its DA BEST!

[VAMPIREBIRDIE]

I was a member way back when....

[stanssoapbox]

Cool!

[xwsftassell]

I could read fluently before I even went to infant school 'cause of Marvel comics. My older brother had a great big pile of them in the bedroom. In 1967, when I was six; I had to go through a special exam in school. They determined that I had a freakishly advanced reading age. Funny, 'cause all I ever read was Marvel comics. Well, I did have a crack at Moby Dick, but I got bored.

[mrsdicaprio22]

xwsftassell, WOW! That is so awesome and incredible that you were able to read fluently by the time you were in infant school!! Marvel Comics really did help you out a lot. I bet all f the other kids in school were quite jealous of you. In my opnion I think marvel comics should be a required class to take in school:) lol:)

[ponzondelawrence]

How did you get these?

[sgottlieb]

sigh... those were the good old days.

[CaptainStacy]

It is so cool (and fortunate) that someone thought to preserve this very cool period of Marvel history for all of us to reminise and enjoy. Thanks tellshiar.

[tellshiar]

Thanks for all your comments.  Yes, it sure does bring back memories. Today, comics just aren't the same like the 1960's/1970's; however, the movie adaptations are awesome! I think that Blade, Spider-Man and Ghost Rider are the best so far. I like the Hulk's effects but its story was terrible.

[Rosetheribtickler]

I was both a F.O.O.M and MMMS member! Great fun, and as a child I really felt as if I belonged to something important!

[detroitbuffalo]

I remember as a kid, at the end of each cartoon, all the superheroes marching along to this theme...I was too young to be a member of MMMS, but I later became a member of F.O.O.M!

[benjaminBarr]

But I wish you had some of those Marvel cartoons from the 1960s. The Hulk, Thor, & Captain America were great, they were taken from the original Jack Kirby drawings. The theme songs sounded like the same people on this recording too

[benjaminBarr]

Yeah, I was a member too. Im suprised you can still play your record, it was like a floppy disc. The only thing I saved was the membership card