Hulk smash puny Billy Mays!

Who needs product spokespersons like Vince "Shamwow" Offer, Tony "Tanqueray" SInclair, George "Grill" Foreman or Sally "Would you like to earn more money? Sure, we all would!" Strothers when you've got the entire stable of Marvel's superheroes (and villains) at your command to shill your Marvel-encrusted products? Just imagine: Iron Man for Stan Lee's Marvel Vermouth! Dr. Strange for the Amazing Marvel Saw-Flo-Steinberg-in-Half Set! Howard the Duck for Uncle Joey Q's Deep Fried Duck Wings? Or maybe...Professor X...for t-shirts?!?:


house ad from Marvel Comics cover-dated September 1965)




Yep, because if there's a spokesman who works well in selling your items...it's a spooky bald man in a wheelchair. Much better to choose as your advertisement workhorses the greatest team-up since Martin and Lewis or Hope and Crosby: Marvel's own Green Team!:


House ad from Marvel Comics cover-dated March 1966)
We always wondered how Dr. Doom stays so warm under his green cape...with the power of fandom. Now we know...and knowing is half the battle.

So, in the words of Marvel's original advertising spokesman: