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Issue: Fantasy Masterpieces #8
Publication Date: April 1967
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Issues: #8 of 11 Issues (13 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Books, Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/14/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee; Roy Thomas (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound (#1-2 saddle-stitched)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Captain America
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Captain America Omnibus #1 [Lee Weeks Cover] published February 2014
as Fantasy Masterpieces #8 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Mystery Comics #9 published July 1940
was Human Torch vs. Sub-Mariner [Illustration on Cover, Front]60% size
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Main Torch and Sub-Mariner illustration taken from the cover of Marvel Mystery # 9. Cap figure taken from the cover of Tales of Suspense # 63. Other vignettes taken from interior panels.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: From the glory-drenched pages of yesteryear...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by John Verpoorten. Credits include Stan Lee, Sol Brodsky, Roy Thomas, Flo Steinberg, Stan Goldberg, Morrie Kuramoto and John Verpoorten.
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The Human Torch versus the Sub-Mariner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Editor(s): Joe Simon ? (original Editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; un-named Police Chief; Police Chemist Frasier
Synopsis: Embittered when the Police Commissioner calls Torch afraid for not bringing in the Sub-Mariner as he promised, the Torch and Betty track down Namor and a battle royal begins that ends with the Fiery Fury being captured by Namor in an airless glass tube.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Mystery Comics #9 published July 1940
was The Human Torch versus the Sub-Mariner: The Battle of the Comic Century! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Mystery Comics #10 published August 1940
was The Result of the Most Famous Battle in Comic Magazines [Story on Interior Page(s)]minus first panel
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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I Saw Droom the Living Lizard!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Droom (introduction, origin); Dr. Henry Gordon; Arnold
Synopsis: A scientist invents a growth serum intended to solve world hunger by enlarging vegetables. A tiny exotic lizard is accidentally soaked by the liquid and grows into a giant lizard that rampages across the country. They blast it into outer space and it drifts through space frozen, eventually landing on Earth to become the first dinosaur.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #9 published May 1960
was I Saw Droom the Living Lizard! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-634
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. A revised version of Droom appears next in Fantastic Four / Iron Man: Big in Japan (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
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A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, All Portending Practically Nothing!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Items, The Wrap-Up!, Here's a Brand New List of Marvel TV Stations Which We Know You'll Wanna Memorize by Heart!, Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
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The Man in the Beehive!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lucius Farnsworth; Eric
Synopsis: An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers. He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real.
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From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #32 [U.S. Cover Price] published August 1962
was The Man in the Beehive! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-765
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Call Her... Medusa!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John
Synopsis: The gorgons of myth were aliens and send an agent to modern Earth preceding an invasion. She cannot turn the first men she encounters to stone, but since she doesn't know that they're blind the invasion is cancelled.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #96 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1963
was Call Her...Medusa! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Death Plays the Scales!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Senator Alvin Benson [death]; Inspector Grimes; Senator Shores; The Fiddler (introduction, death), Haver, Hobbs
Synopsis: Cap has to battle the evil intentions of a man who uses a domestic employment agency as a blind in order to get his Nazi agents into the homes of anti-Nazi Senators in order to kill them.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCaptain America Comics #7 published October 1941
was Horror Plays the Scales [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: The original title of this story was "Horror Plays the Scales".

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