Another gift that I received on that Christmas of 1978 was this SUPERHERO GIFT PACK. Ordered from I believe the Sears Catalogue, this Gift Pack was essentially a box containing ten recent-but-not-new Marvel Comics. There may have been a poster as well–I had a Sal Buscema-illustrated Marvel poster that hung in my bedroom at around this time, but I don’t recall where it may have come from. So this pack is as good a supposition as any.
Anyway, of the ten books contained in this cool box, I think i may have had one or two already. But just for the record, the Pack contained THOR #262-263, INCREDIBLE HULK #214. FANTASTIC FOUR #185, CONAN #77, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #171-172, AVENGERS #163 and CAPTAIN AMERICA #212-213. So a pretty good smattering of Marvel’s super hero output at this particular moment.
I can remember, when school started back up again, bringing this Pack and its contents along on a field trip that my Friday Gifted Class went on, and letting people in the class read the comics on the bus ride to and from wherever we went. That was very typical of my mindset in those days: I always wanted to share teh things I loved with other people, and was often frustrated when they had little interest in them, or outright mocked them.
The Tom Brevoort Experience 
How have I never heard of these? And I have never seen that poster either. So cool!
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I did that in school, and they got graffitied. My Alpha Flight #19 features Snowbird with male genitalia.
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I remember buying a pack of Marvel comics in Sears in early 1989. Don’t remember the price, but it was 40 comics in total. The pack consisted of 40 more-or-less random comics from mid-1988, including the entire Gillis/Cowan BLACK PANTHER mini-series from that year. Much to my frustration though, the pack also included the first 4 issues of Marvel’s ALF comic.
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I think out of that pack, I’ve only read the Avengers and Spider-Man issues. I’ve never seen one of those Sears packs before, that’s pretty cool. Also really cool that you shared your comics. I would be afraid they would come back ripped in shreds!
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I must have had this. I have all of those comics, with the “Diamond” shaped price and issue # box on the cover that usually means “Whitman variant.” I thought they came from various Whitman 3-packs all these years. AVENGERS 163 was one of the “Marvel Fill-in Comics” issues that Marv Wolfman assigned to fight off Dreaded Deadline Doom – it was designed so it could be an issue of CHAMPIONS, IRON MAN or AVENGERS, as needed. I love SPIDER 171, the second part of a crossover with NOVA.
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