Price Variants and Marvel Value Stamps

A CGC board member asked me a good question the other day.  "Oh! I also meant to ask you about the value stamps. Some issues have them and some don't, correct? Have you seen many issues missing them? Is that generally a concern or not really?"  I have had a couple of books that had the Marvel Value Stamp cut out of them.  It is a good question worthy of a good response.


The series A stamps are all in issues published before the 30 centers came out.
However, here are the fifty 30 cent variant issues that have the series B MVS in them. I must admit that I only know of a small number of variant books that have them cut out, but they are out there.
Amazing Spider-man 156
Amazing Spider-man 157
Avengers 147
Captain America 197
Captain America 198
Champions 5
Conan 62
Daredevil 132
Daredevil 134
Daredevil 136
Defenders 35
Defenders 37
Defenders 38
Doctor Strange 13
Fantastic Four 170
Ghost Rider 18
Howard the Duck 2
Incredible Hulk 198
Incredible Hulk 199
Incredible Hulk 200
Inhumans 6
Invaders 7
Iron Fist 4
Iron Man 86
Iron Man 87
Iron Man 88
Jungle Action 21
Ka-Zar 15
Ka-Zar 17
Marvel Premiere 29
Marvel Premiere 30
Marvel Presents 5
Marvel Spotlight 27
Marvel Team-Up 44
Marvel Team-Up 45
Marvel Two-In-One 15
Marvel Two-In-One 18
Master of Kung Fu 39
Omega 2
Omega 3
Power Man 32
Power Man 33
Son of Satan 5
Super-Villain Team-Up 5
Thor 246
Thor 248
Thor 249
Tomb of Dracula 43
Tomb of Dracula 44
Tomb of Dracula 45
Note that amongst many of the tougher books, no Kid Colts, Mighty Marvel Westerns, Rawhide Kids, Ringo Kids, Two-Gun Kids, Sgt. Fury's, Weird Wonder Tales or X-men 30 cent variants have MVSs to be cut out!
A great source of information on Marvel Value Stamps can be found here.

All about Marvel Value Stamps

Despite the fact that many a Hulk 181 was butchered for a MVS, I happen to love these things. Here is my stamp book.

Also, my friend, boardie Stronguy, did the coolest sketch project you will ever see and it is MVS based. Here is the link.


Stronguy's simply awesome Marvel Value Stamp Project