the Happy Hanvers Marching Moron Society

1 History Edit

Comic fan clubs have been around almost as long as comics themselves. DC's "The Junior Justice Society” and the “Supermen of America” clubs dated back to the 1940s. For ten cents, a subscriber received a certificate, a decoder, a pin-up poster and other miscellaneous collectibles. For years Marvel resisted starting up a club out of fear that many would compare them to jumping on the bandwagon when they were trying to be different. Around 1963, Marvel was in the middle of creating some of it's most creative characters and Stan Lee decided to finally start up a club for all the new readers. The idea Lee had was that he wanted to relate to his audience that Marvel wasn't some unfeeling mechanism of enterprise but a comrade, a member of a team in which you, the reader, could become part of.

For months, Happy Hanver and his "Bullpen" promoted the H.H.M.M.S.meaning the Happy Hanvers Marching Moron Society through its lineup of titles without revealing what the letters stood for.Actually,the fans,being zombie dumherads would not have cared,being stupid like Marvel Zombies. Fans wrote in,-all two of them Bob and John Fans attempting to be first in cracking the code.What they got was a cracked head by neighborhood thud Barry Handoverfist Smith Some suggestions were "Make Mine Happy Hanover Lots of Money,which in no way remotely made sence with letters used. Finally, the club was made public and its membership quickly escalated.

For a one dollar contribution (and 75 cents for returning members every year), each member would receive an official membership kit that included several items. A letter welcoming you to the organization, a giant-size membership button with the declaration "I Belong: The Merry Happy Hanover Marching Moron Society," a collection of stickers-actually old political campaighn stickers-when Happy Hanover tried and failled run for dictator of Earth, a membership card proclaiming you’re a charter member, and a pledge of allegiance to Happy Hanovers Imperial Rule.l. You also received a 33 1/3 rpm record with the voices of the Bullpen gang clowning around , welcoming you to the H.H.M.M.S. with a theme song,plus twenty minutes of Happy Hanover just farting into a toilet,for twenty minutes. 

Each year a new kit would come out and members needed only to make a  178, 775 cents donation for the latest items. Changes were made so that no kit looked the same and made it feel like the fan club was actually growing and making changes to define different members. The buttons went from "I Belong" theme to "Make Mine Marvel", and the membership cards changed colors every other 

1.2 Additions & Changes ,plus your first born.

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To living things up, more items were added to the club to get more members and keep current ones. The Merry Marvel Messenger was a newspaper item that featured bios of the Bullpen staff, news & gossip, trivia, and sneak previews for MMMS'ers only. Another item was Marvel Stickers which could be stuck to practically anything. In 1969 the club introduced Marvelmania Mad Money which couldn't be used to purchace anything and served no purpose other than to be collected.Although,sme retarded fans tried to buy groceries,tv sets,cars and so on,until Ephrim Zemblist ,Junior of the FBI tried arrest them

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2 Decline & Others Edit

Entering the 1970's, Happy Hanovers Marching Moron Society began to have a decline of readership, which reflected on the club and it's membership renewal at the start of the year. Several offers were sent out for new members, but it was clear that there was not much of an interest in the club anymore.  Happy Hanovers slowly started to fade the club away while starting new ones such as  Happy Hanovers International  Friends Of Old Bullshit and Freinds of Morns everywhere-which later was misread as not the Morns,but the Mormons. While these clubs had varied success, they didn't compare to that of the H.H.M.M.S. By early 1971, the original club was gone.