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Hidden Gems in Marvel Reprints

If you had the original comics you might have ignored Marvel's reprint titles, but occasionally new or unpublished inventory surfaced, nestled in the back pages and appearing without fanfare. For the fanatical collector who is compelled to have it all (something I'm quite familiar with, in case you haven't yet noticed), these are treasures to be sought out, akin to an unreleased track from a favorite band or musician appearing on a compilation CD. Displaced stories would sometimes find a home in  Marvel Tales, K a-Zar and Marvel Super-Heroes, ( The Angel,  Tales of the Watcher and the 1950s-era Human Torch  being a few examples )  and pin-ups were often used to fill up pages. Most were either procured from earlier comics or manufactured by using images from covers, splash pages, tee-shirts or pasted together from a variety of sources. Unused artwork was most likely discovered unexpectedly, mixed among FF or Spider-Man stats and used as needed. One such example is this Di