Memorabilia: 1987

• Marvel issued a postcard featuring original Fantastic Four art (pictured at right). No artist is credited.
• A t-shirt depicting the pin-up page from issue #250 (by John Byrne) was produced by East Coast Sportswear. I found one a comic book convention, but I am unware of how it was distributed or marketed. It was half cotton and half polyester.
• Marvel began printing their Marvel Masterworks series. Each book reprinted ten issues of classic Marvel tales, their covers sporting a gold-foil embossing. Stan Lee wrote introductions for each one and they were only sold in hardcover with dust jackets. Volume 2 covered issues #1 - 10 of the Fantastic Four. There is an error in its initial printing: page 106 is printed out of sequence and should have been placed between pages 103 and 104. This was corrected in later editions.
• The Fantastic Four Compendium was released by TSR for use with their Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game. The book contains game statistic for nearly everyone even remotely affiliated with the FF. It also has a lot of excellent source data on the group, allies, villains, headquarters, vehicles, other worlds, etc. Worth looking at, even if you don't play the game.