Marvel Made

Marvel Made was a merchandise publishing brand created by Marvel Comics that sold exclusive, limited availability, high-end merchandise based on Marvel properties. It sold two product lines in its lifetime before being abandoned after 2020.
==History==
Marvel Made was first announced through teaser promotional images set inside certain select comic books in February, 2020. This image featured an object covered by a red cloth with the Marvel Made logo on it and text below reading "Unveiling February 2020." However, no reveal was made in February 2020 as the advertisement indicated, and it was later learned that the image was slated to be re-inserted into comic books released in March with the tagline changed to "Unveiling April 2020". Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, these March comics were never published, and the entire project was presumably put on hold for a number of months while Marvel Comics temporarily ceased production.
On July 14, 2020 Marvel Made was finally revealed to be a line of exclusive collectable merchandise that would be sold at limited quantities. Originally planned to be exclusively sold at conventions and special events, the reality of the COVID-19 virus limiting social gatherings led Marvel to transition the products to be sold online with limited quantities and for only set periods of time. They also announced that they would be producing bundles themed around specific creators. Initially, new products were planned to be released every month, but this schedule was not followed in practice.
Products were sold through a specific website at MarvelMade.net, which was updated as each new bundle was released to show information about the new product, a countdown timer for the time remaining to buy the product, and the number of bundle remaining. The site was run by ReedPOP, a popular event organizer company.
Following the second released product line from Marvel Made (the Chris Claremont Premier Bundle) in 2020, no new bundles were announced and the brand went indefinitely dormant. By late 2022, aspects of the MarvelMade.net website began malfunctioning and reverting to default templated content,MarvelMade.net snapshot in November 2022 and by late 2023 the website was no longer accessible to consumers.MarvelMade.net ceased functioning by late 2023
==Product Line==
===Skottie Young Premier Collectibles===
Marvel Made's first pair of products were dubbed the "Marvel Made Skottie Young Premier Collectibles," and were made available from July 14th to August 7th, 2020. Only 2,500 copies were produced.
The first item was a bundle selling for $199 that included 10 "base set" Marvel character pins created by artist Skottie Young, 5 bundle-exclusive pins, a hardcover notebook with extra pages of facsimile art board sketching pages, and a variant cover version of with cover drawn by Skottie Young. The first 1,000 buyers of the bundle were also given a black and white sketch variant cover version of the same book. Marvel Mastercard cardholders who bought the bundles were also provided a variant cover copy of with art by Young. All items in the bundle were created exclusively for the bundle, and had not been sold anywhere else previously.
A separate option was available for $30 to buy a "blind box" of 2 random pins out of the 10 in the base set.
File:Marvel Made Skottie Young pins.jpg|The fifteen pins included in the bundle
File:Marvel Made Skottie Young notebook.jpg|The hardback notebook with a design by Skottie Young on the cover
File:Marvel Made Skottie Young pins box.jpg|The box with the fifteen exclusive pins (ten "base set" pins and five exclusive to the bundle)
File:Excalibur Vol 4 1 Marvel Made Exclusive Variant.jpg|The exclusive Excalibur cover
File:Excalibur Vol 4 1 Marvel Made Exclusive Sketch Variant.jpg|The exclusive sketch Excalibur cover
File:X-Men Fantastic Four Vol 2 1 Marvel Made Exclusive Variant.jpg|The exclusive Fantastic Four variant cover
File:Marvel Made Skottie Young bundle.jpg|The exclusive bundle with all the items
File:Marvel Made Skottie Young blind box.jpg|The blind box of pins sold seperately
File:Marvel Made Skottie Young blind box pins.png|The ten "base set" pins designed by Skottie Young
===Chris Claremont Premier Bundle===
The second bundle Marvel sold through their Marvel Made line was the "Chris Claremont Premier Bundle." This bundle was made available for pre-order for $199 from October 27, 2020 to December 4, 2020 with Marvel requiring 1,200 pre-orders to be placed or else they would not produce the bundle and refund customers' money instead. Their 1,200 pre-order goal was passed, with 2,104 orders being placed before the December 4 deadline.
The Chris Claremont bundle included a 11.02” x 13.58” slipcase cover that opened up to hold a hardcover edition of , the interior of which included a handwritten signature by Chris Claremont as well as his rendition of one of four classic X-Men quotes. Inside the book was also a small certificate of authenticity. The bundle additionally came with a variant cover of illustrated by Olivier Coipel, and a set of four lithographs featuring various X-Men characters. This was the first time a Paragon Collection book had ever been released by Marvel.
After positive response to the inital release of the bundle, Marvel added an additional free product to the bundle in the form of a brand-new Wolverine comic book written by Chris Claremont that tied directly into the limited Wolverine series created by Claremont and Frank Miller in 1982. Pre-ordering the Marvel Made bundle was only way to obtain a copy of this comic. Along with this comic, two additional lithographs were added ("Asgardian Wars" by Art Adams and "Storm vs Callisto" by Marcos Martín) as well as a X-Men #13 action figure of Dark Phoenix with alternative coloring by John Tyler Christopher.
Customers who also had annual Marvel Unlimited subscriptions were given an additional sketch variant cover by Olivier Coipel.
File:Marvel Made Paragon Collection Chris Claremont certificate of authenticity.png
File:Marvel Made Paragon Collection Chris Claremonth slipcase.jpg|The slipcase for the Paragon Collection book
File:Marvel Made Paragon Collection Chris Claremont book and slipcase.jpg|The Paragon Collection book and its slipcase
File:Marvel Made Paragon Collection Chris Claremont certificate of authenticity.png|The Certificate of Authenticity that came with the book
File:Marvel Made Paragon Collection Chris Claremont inside slipcase.jpg|The Paragon Collection book inside its slipcase
File:Marvel Made Paragon Collection Chris Claremont signature.jpg|The Paragon Collection book with its signature
File:Marvel Made Wolverine Vol 7 6 variant cover.jpg
File:Marvel Made Dark Phoenix lithograph.jpg|The lithograph of Dark Phoenix
File:Marvel Made Salvador Larroca lithograph.jpg|The Salvador Larroca lithograph
File:Marvel Made Philip Tan lithograph.jpg|The Philip Tan lithograph
File:Marvel Made Marcos Marin lithograph.jpg|The Marcos Martín lithograph
File:Marvel Made Joe Quesada lithograph.jpg|The Joe Quesada lithograph
File:Marvel Made Art Adams lithograph.jpg|The Art Adams lithograph
File:Marvel Made Dark Phoenix action figure.jpg|The X-Men #13 Dark Phoenix action figure
File:Wolverine Vol 7 6 Marvel Made Exclusive Variant.jpg|The exclusive Wolverine variant cover
File:Wolverine Vol 7 6 Marvel Made Exclusive Sketch Variant.jpg|The exclusive Wolverine sketch variant cover
==References==
Category:Merchandise