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Issue: Fantastic Annual #1968
Publication Date: January 1967
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Issues: #1968 of 3 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagIPC
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Indicia Publisher: Odhams Books Limited
On Sale Date: 1967
Volume:
Pages: 96
ISBN:
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Price: 114.0 pence GBQ 0-9-6
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Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 2 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Hardcover. Half of this annual is printed in 4 colors. The remainder is printed in 2 colors, black and red.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Colour; two color
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Binding: Hardcover
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Thor
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is a painted version of Thor from the splash page of the first story in Journey Into Mystery #83 (August 1962)
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Fantastic Annual 1968

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Doctor Strange; Thor; Colossus [not the X-Man Colossus]; Iron Man; X-Men [Angel; Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl; Iceman]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This is a paste-up for various sources: Doctor Strange - detail from the splash page of Strange Tales #120 (May 1964); Thor - adapted from Thor pin-up in Journey Into Mystery #110 (November 1964); Colossus - detail from page 1 of the Colossus story in this annual; Iron Man - detail from the splash page of Tales of Suspense #43 (July 1963; X-Men - splash page from X-Men #2 (November 1963)
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When Magneto Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Thor [Don Blake]; Magneto; Brotherhood of Evil Mutants [Quicksilver; Scarlet Witch; Mastermind; Toad]; Don Blake; Jane Foster; X-Men (mostly unseen)
Synopsis: Magneto is testing his powers in the city. He "attracts" Thor's attention. They battle aboard Magneto's submarine. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants are out looking for the X-Men. Magneto flees from Thor in his escape vessel and the X-Men's submarine is seen pursuing him. Thor turns back to Don Blake and visits Jane Foster. She makes him a snack and gives him a glass of milk.
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Pages: 18
Job Number: X-789
Disclose Notes: Some of the 'next issue' blurb has been removed from the text box in the final panel.
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The Temple of Zentaca

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Doctor Martin Peters (the famous explorer); Andy Vane (weapons inventor); Major (Dalmatian dog); Juan Garcia (Chief of Police); Dr. Zinn (evil scientist)
Synopsis: Doctor Martin Peters and Andy Vane discover the Lost temple of Zentaca. They are attacked in turn by an oozing plant-like creature and some armed, costumed men. Doctor Zinn learns of Martin and Andy's presence and captures them. They are incarcerated within the temple. Doctor Zinn laughs and then exits, leaving them to be destroyed by the oozing plant-like creature. Major, the dog, finds them and helps them escape. Andy zaps the Responder Unit, the source of the plant's power, with his weapon, and then blasts an escape route through the wall, destroying the temple in the process.
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Pages: 10
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The Fugitives

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Earth men meet scary-looking aliens when exploring a distant planet. The aliens, also explorers, flee in their spaceship. It seems they were scared of the humans, too!
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Pages: 1
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The Man Who Hated Monstro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Karl Krumm; Monstro
Synopsis: A star acrobat is jealous of a popular gorilla at his circus and torments it. Finally, he arranges for the gorilla to break free so that it will be shot, but it has enough strength left to swing out on the trapeze to get revenge.
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Pages: 5
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Beware of the Blob!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The X-Men [Professor X; The Angel [Warren Worthington III]; The Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman]; The Blob (introduction)
Synopsis: Professor X detects a new mutant and sends the X-Men to investigate. They arrive at a carnival and encounter the Blob, a very fat sideshow attraction who can bounce bullets off of his malleable hide as well as anchor himself to the earth and become immovable. The X-Men bring him back to the mansion as a potential member but the Blob spurns their invitation and returns to the carnival. Realizing that the Blob knows their secret, the X-Men lure him back to the mansion where Xavier wipes his memory.
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Pages: 24
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I Used to Be...Human!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A space pilot is stranded on a planet where the only available food turns the eater into one of the planet's hideous natives. He eats the fruit in order to survive, but finds that the psychic communications of the creatures are so beautiful that he doesn't want to change back.
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Pages: 5
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Colossus

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Subject Matter
Character(s): Professor Cole (dies); Tom Cole [his son]; Kurt Wagner [Professor Cole's assistant] (is turned to stone); Steiger [arch-fiend and criminal mastermind] (is turned to stone); Colossus [a giant statue brought to life]
Synopsis: Professor Cole has invented a magic torch (flashlight) which breathes life into inanimate objects. Kurt Wagner tries to steal it for his boss, Steiger, and kills the professor. Tom Cole is captured by Wagner and his henchmen. He uses the Torch on a giant statue (Colossus) and brings it to life. Colossus vows to serve Tom and assists him in bringing down Wagner and Steiger. In the final showdown, Tom uses the torch on the villains in a reverse setting. They are turned to stone and exhibited, along with the Colossus, in an unspecified London gallery. Tom throws the torch into the ocean.
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Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Kurt Wagner in this story is completely unrelated to the Kurt Wagner character in Marvel's X-Men series. The Colossus in this story is not Marvel's "It! The Living Colossus". The story is printed in two colors, black and red.
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The Invaders

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bobby Masters; The Arctryons [an alien race] (perish)
Synopsis: Bobby Masters, an amateur radio-ham, established contact with the Arctryons, an alien race intent on conquering the earth. The aliens boasted about their might and how easily they would establish rule. Bobby thought he was the victim of a hoax so he provided them with landing co-ordinates and waited. Ultimately the Arctryons turned out to be microscopic in size and they all perished when their ship plunged into a small pond.
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Pages: 1
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Iron Man vs. Doctor Strange

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Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Doctor Strange [Carlo Strange] (introduction); Carla Strange (introduction); Nikita Khrushchev (cameo)
Synopsis: An imprisoned criminal scientist takes control of Iron Man in order to free himself. He threatens to blow up the world unless he is made world ruler. Iron Man stops him by shorting out his power and is helped by the villain's conscience-stricken daughter.
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: This Doctor Strange is a different character from Marvel's Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts.

Story title changed from "The Stronghold of Doctor Strange!" to "Iron Man vs. Doctor Strange".
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It's Fantastic

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Iron Man; Thor
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for "Fantastic" weekly comic
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Thor
Character(s): Thor
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is a painted version of Thor from the splash page of the first story in Journey Into Mystery #83 (August 1962). The same cover is used here as for the front page.

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