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Issue: Fantastic! #1
Publication Date: February 1967
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Issues: #1 of 89 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagIPC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Odhams Press Ltd
On Sale Date: 02/11/1967
Volume:
Pages: 40
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £9.00 GBP
8.0 pence GBQ 0-0-8
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Free 'Fantastic Pennant/Wallet' with this issue. "Fantastic" was on sale seven days in advance of the week ending cover date and two days in advance of the 'Every Monday' indicia frequency.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour Cover; Black and White Interior
Dimensions: 7.75" x 11.25"
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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It's Free Inside! Fantastic

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor; Iron Man; X-Men
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Pages: 1
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The Stone Men From Saturn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake] (introduction, origin); Gorr; Kronans; Korg
Synopsis: Origin of Thor. A lame doctor vacationing in Norway runs across an alien invasion. While hiding from the aliens in a cave he finds an old cane that transforms him into the god Thor. Thor drives back the alien invasion.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #83 [U.S. Cover Price] published August 1962
was The Stone Men from Saturn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: This is a reprint of the first Thor story published by Marvel. The original story was divided into three parts with parts two and three titled "The Power of Thor!" (5 pp) and "Thor the Mighty Strikes Back!"(3 pp). In this reprint these two chapter headings have been edited out so that this tale is presented as a single 13 page story.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): News From the Floor of 64
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Pages: 0.5
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It's Free Next Week! Your Secret Brotherhood of Power Scar

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
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X-Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Professor Charles Xavier; Magneto (1st ever appearance)
Synopsis: X-Men origin
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From Content Item: FlagThe X-Men #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1963
was X-Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 1 to 9; panels 1 to 3 of page 10; panels 1 to 4 of page 11
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The final panel contains only text and invites the reader to see the X-Men in action in next week's "Fantastic!"
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Fantastic Fan Mail
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Pages: 1
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It's Fantastic

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for the Pennant/Wallet free gift and its various uses
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Iron Man is Born!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wong-Chu
Synopsis: Iron Man origin
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From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #39 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1963
was Iron Man Is Born! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: A new caption is added to the final panel of page 7 for dramatic impact.
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They're Fantastic!

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Hulk; Thing; Spider-Man
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Pages: 0.75
Disclose Notes: Promo advertising Smash!, Wham! and Pow! comics
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Stamps Free

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure
First Line: If it moves - The Link kills!
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The only original strip in the first issue supplied by Spanish artist Luis Bermejo
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Power-House Pennants

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Thor; X-Men; Iron Man
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pennant drawings to cut out and place in the pennant/wallet. Color back cover

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