Why This Set Matters
With over 252 numbered stickers, the Venezuela album may be the most character-comprehensive vintage Marvel product ever produced anywhere.
Ikaris, Drax, Triton, Major Victory, Moonstone, Commander Kraken — characters serious Marvel readers know but casual fans have never heard of.
Multiple characters make their first known card appearances in the Venezuela set — decades before any US product acknowledged their existence.
Deep Dive
The 1980 Venezuelan Marvel Superheroes sticker album is, for serious students of Marvel card history, the most important set of the entire pre-1984 era. Nothing else comes close in terms of sheer scope and character depth.
The character selections in the Venezuelan album are startling. Alongside expected characters like the Hulk and Spider-Man, you find Drax the Destroyer, Triton, multiple Eternals, various Guardians of the Galaxy, and a host of minor villains who barely appeared in contemporary US trading card products.
| Character | Format | Card | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alchemoid True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 141 Solo | Spanish |
| Attuma True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 244 Solo | Spanish |
| Banshee True Rookie | Sticker | 228 X-Men | Spanish |
| Beetle True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 95 Solo | Spanish |
| Charlie-27 True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 118 Solo | Spanish |
| Collector True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 151 Solo | Spanish |
| Commander Kraken True Rookie | Sticker | 153 Villain | Spanish |
| Crusher True Rookie | Sticker | 179 Villain | Spanish |
| Devastator True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 176 Solo | Spanish |
| Doc Samson True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 148 Solo | Spanish |
| Dorma True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 74 Solo | Spanish |
| Drax the Destroyer True Rookie | Sticker | 90 Guardians of the Galaxy | Spanish |
| Fandral (the Darling) True Rookie | Sticker | 208 Other Heroes | Spanish |
| Galaxy Master True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 98 Solo | Spanish |
| Golden Archer True Rookie | Sticker | 184 Villain | Spanish |
| Harokin True Rookie | Sticker | 241 Villain | Spanish |
| Hela True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 23 Solo, 171 Asgard | Spanish |
| Ikaris True Rookie | Sticker | 55 Other Heroes, 56 Other Heroes, 134 Other Heroes, 190 Solo | Spanish |
| Infinitus True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 240 Solo | Spanish |
| Krang True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 99 Solo, 124 Villain | Spanish |
| Lady Sif True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 76 Solo, 77 Villain, 78 Villain | Spanish |
| Leiko Wu True Rookie | Sticker | 170 Other Heroes | Spanish |
| Lucifer (Quists) True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 67 Solo | Spanish |
| Madame Masque True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 106 Solo | Spanish |
| Major Victory (Vance Astro) True Rookie | Sticker | 185 Other Heroes | Spanish |
| Mantis True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 110 Solo | Spanish |
| The Matador True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 139 Solo | Spanish |
| Mercurio True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 70 Solo, 91 Villain, 92 Villain, 200 Villain | Spanish |
| Mole Man True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 252 Solo | Spanish |
| Molecule Man True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 84 Solo | Spanish |
| Moonstone (Lloyd Bloch) True Rookie | Sticker | 186 Villain | Spanish |
| Mysterio True Rookie | Sticker | 42 Villain, 43 Villain | Spanish |
| Nighthawk True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 49 Solo, 86 Solo | Spanish |
| Nightshade True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 109 Solo | Spanish |
| Nomad True Rookie | Sticker | 64 Other Heroes, 65 Other Heroes, 93 Other Heroes, 124 Other Heroes | Spanish |
| Nova (Richard Rider) True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 37 Solo, 230 Other Heroes | Spanish |
| Number One True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 97 Solo | Spanish |
| Odin True Rookie | Sticker | 88 Asgard, 162 Asgard, 216 Solo, 227 Asgard | Spanish |
| Pluto True Rookie | Sticker | 180 Villain | Spanish |
| Princess Python True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 105 Solo | Spanish |
| Red Ghost True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 111 Solo | Spanish |
| Samurai True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 85 Solo | Spanish |
| Scarlet Beetle True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 69 Solo, 121 Villain | Spanish |
| Seth True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 150 Solo | Spanish |
| Shanna the She-Devil True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 26 Solo, 169 Other Heroes | Spanish |
| Skurge the Executioner True Rookie | Sticker | 154 Villain | Spanish |
| Spider Killer True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 183 Solo | Spanish |
| Starhawk True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 188 Solo, 189 Other Heroes | Spanish |
| Trapster True Rookie | Sticker | 119 Villain, 120 Villain, 231 Solo | Spanish |
| Ulik True Rookie First Solo | Sticker | 102 Solo | Spanish |
| Union Jack True Rookie | Sticker | 146 Other Heroes | Spanish |