Moon Knight 1980 #11 Direct ed. - reader copy - $4.00

Full-page advertisement recruiting readers to join Sales Leadership Club by selling personalized Christmas cards, gift wrap, stationery, and gift items. The ad promises brand-name prizes or $1.00-per-item cash profit, with a free card album and prize catalog supplied by mail. The page displays numerous possible prizes, including radios, cameras, games, sports equipment, toys, electronics, calculators, model kits, and hobby items.

Moon Knight and Frenchie chase down a drug dealer all the way to New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

Half-page Heroes World mail-order advertisement offering Marvel collector comic sets, Marvel Treasuries, special editions, magazines, posters, art books, and superhero portfolios.

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #2.

• Prizes or Cash the Fun Way! - Interior front cover advertisement for Sales Leadership Club, Springfield, Massachusetts, keyed to **Dept. 81MC-6.** The ad reflects the youth mail-order sales-club model common in early 1980s comics, presenting small-scale sales to friends, relatives, and neighbors as a way to earn consumer goods or cash. This black-and-white version emphasizes personalized Christmas cards and includes a business-reply label for requesting sales materials.
• Shop by Mail - Classified advertising section typical of Marvel comics? early 1980s mail-order marketplace. The pages document the comics hobby?s direct-mail dealer network, with multiple sellers offering Marvel, DC, Golden Age, Silver Age, Disney, and back-issue catalogs. Non-comics ads include self-defense courses, stamp collecting, bodybuilding, songwriting, poetry-to-music services, novelty cash, dragon posters, and sports instruction, reflecting the broad youth and hobbyist mail-order advertising environment of the period.
• We are looking for a few good boys and girls - Youth-sales recruitment ad for Grit, a long-running family newspaper that commonly advertised in comics. The copy frames door-to-door or route-based newspaper sales as practical business experience for children, with parental signature required and age requirements noted by state.
• Marvel Comic Library Selections - The ad documents early-1980s comics retailing through curated character/title sets, price-guide references, catalog sales, and direct-mail ordering. The inclusion of Moon Knight in a listed collector set is useful issue-context evidence for the character?s growing collector-market presence during this period.
• Task Force - This is a full-page mail-order toy/game advertisement for Task Force, a naval battle game from Hellan Toy Co. The scan is rotated, but the ad promotes a ?giant battlefield? playset with aircraft carriers, destroyers, planes, tanks, pill boxes, bombs, moveable turrets, dice, and a large simulated book-format board. This belongs to the war-toy/mail-order ad tradition rather than the comics collector market. The pitch stresses scale, action, and ?realistic? combat play, while the order form offers related war-game products such as Fighting Ships Complete Game and Special Ocean Commando Set.
• It?s Fun to Play 7-Eleven?s New Super Slurpee Fun Game - This is a two-page center-spread promotional advertisement for 7-Eleven?s Super Slurpee Fun Game, using Marvel superheroes as licensed promotional characters. Spider-Man dominates the image, with Captain America, Hulk, and Spider-Woman also appearing on the game card art. The ad promotes an instant-win game tied to purchase of 16 oz. or 24 oz. Slurpee drinks, with major prizes including scholarships, shopping sprees, and assorted merchandise. This is stronger than a routine food/beverage ad because it documents a national convenience-store promotion built around Marvel character licensing. The ad ties comics readership, branded drink cups, collectible/game-card mechanics, and in-store retail traffic together. The center-spread placement also suggests a high-value paid advertisement.
• Bubble Yum?s got the number yum taste. Pass it on. - This is another full-page Bubble Yum consumer ad, but it uses a different campaign angle from the earlier ?even yummier? ad. Here the message is peer-to-peer: ?Pass it on.? The ad shows children sharing or discussing Bubble Yum, emphasizing social popularity, big bubbles, and long-lasting flavor. The product lineup at the bottom shows several Bubble Yum varieties, including regular, sugarless, grape, and tropical punch. This is a youth-targeted candy ad built around playground/social endorsement rather than a specific contest or mail-order offer.
• Get the First Four Issues of Your Marvel Comics Subscription Free! - This is a full-page Marvel subscription house ad, promoting a 16-issue subscription for the price of 12 issues. The ?first four issues free? phrasing is the sales hook: readers pay $5.00 for a 16-issue subscription, described as 31? per copy and a 38% savings over the 50? newsstand price. The Human Torch figure functions as a visual attention-getter rather than a story-specific feature. The coupon is dated APR-81, and the checklist includes Moon Knight, making this useful evidence that Marvel was actively offering the title through its subscription program during this period.
• Hot-Tempered Triumph! - This is a full-page Hostess Fruit Pies comic-strip advertisement starring the Fantastic Four. As with the Spider-Man Hostess ad, the branded snack is integrated into a miniature superhero story. The plot uses a family/outdoor ?wonders of nature? setup: Reed, Sue, Franklin, Ben, Johnny, and Alicia are on a river trip when a rockslide threatens them. The Thing resolves the danger with physical action, while Hostess Fruit Pies are presented as the saved lunch and the story?s product reward. This ad is also useful because it includes Alicia Masters and Franklin Richards in a casual Fantastic Four family outing context, not just the core combat team.
• - Letters from Alex Cheung, Steve Thurman, Marty Powell, Randy Fenn, and Michael Wright.
• 132 Roman Soldiers - This is a full-page mail-order toy soldier advertisement from Lucky Products, Inc., promoting a 32-piece Roman Soldiers set. The ad uses a large illustrated ?imaginary war scene? of ancient combat to sell a small molded-plastic playset. It belongs to the same early-1980s comics mail-order toy ecosystem as the 100-piece soldier set, but with a sword-and-sandal / ancient warfare theme rather than modern military play.
• Genuine Diamond Earrings $5.00 - This is a full-page direct-response jewelry advertisement for genuine diamond earrings from Diamond Import Div., offering a pair for $5.00 plus postage and handling. Unlike the youth-oriented toy, candy, and sales-club ads, this is aimed more broadly at bargain mail-order consumers, including gift buyers. The duplicated coupons ? ?For You? and ?For a Friend? ? reinforce the gift angle. The ad?s stark black-and-white typography is intentionally simple and price-driven. The offer emphasizes authenticity, faceted diamonds, a signed Certificate of Authenticity, and a refund guarantee, while the small photo is labeled ?enlarged to show detail,? an important qualifier given the very low price and stated .25 pt. size.
• Earn Famous Name Prizes or Cash - Advertisement for Olympic Sales Club, Inc., Enfield, Connecticut, keyed to Dept. 81MC6 and copyrighted 1981. This color version is a variant of the Olympic Sales Club youth mail-order recruitment ad, using a business-reply label and toll-free phone option to solicit readers. The ad reflects the early 1980s comics sales-club model, presenting small-scale sales to friends, relatives, and neighbors as a way for children to earn prizes or cash.