I’m a bit of a throwback: I still use a paper planner to organize my days. The Leuchtturm1917 notebook has become my go-to. I use it for both planning and note-taking. In order to jazz it up each day, I often put stickers on the pages. The idea is that if I can make my daily to-do list more interesting to look at, I’ll focus on it more and -ultimately- accomplish more.

The Marvel Sticker Anthology from DK, a division of Penguin Random House, is a delightful book. This little hardcover (It’s 7” x by 8.88”) is packed full of stickers featuring Marvel characters. Most of it is “real art” from real artists. So, if you want an Iron Man sticker, for example, you can choose a figure from your favorite shell-head artist , including Gene Colan, George Tuska, Bob Layton, Jack Kirby, or Gil Kane.

And it’s not just figures and headshots – they also include logos, select panels from select issues and even corner boxes!

This collection goes pretty deep. As a long-time Defenders fan, I’m stunned-yet-thrilled that it offers a page of Valkyrie stickers, complete with two different logo treatments. This is the “traditional” Valkyrie from the ‘70s. It even has one sticker from her short-lived golden costume that she wore for a hot minute.

And to satiate the heart of every Bronze Age Marvel fan, there’s a page full of Nova stickers right next to it.

Obviously someone (there’s no editor named in this book) is having fun with this: the infamous Thanos helicopter. The Thanos-Copter first appeared, incongruously, in Spidey Super Stories #39 and has since become a punchline.

One big bummerooski: The Fantastic Four aren’t included in this sticker book. Maybe they are saving the publication for the upcoming movie?

More Stickiness

If stickers are your type of thing – you might also enjoy the Marvel Classic Sticker Book from Abrams ComicArts. Published in 2020, this one is more historical, as it represented a few iterations of the old Marvel Stickers that included the obligatory gag word balloons. Most of them seemed so off target to me. It also includes several Marvel Corner Boxes as well as pull out pages that mimic the paper artists use to create comic pages.

One other book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by the Heath brothers. This one came out in 2007, but the ideas and concepts are timeless. More here if you are interested.