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Issue: Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #3
Publication Date: June 1966
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Issues: #3 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Animated Timely Features Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/10/1966
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1966 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
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Gargantus; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Watcher; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published January 2008
as Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #3 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]1/4 page
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contains cover reproductions, with some modifications, from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 Series) #4, Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 Series) #40, and The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 Series) #3.
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Who Says This Isn't The Marvel Age of Comics?

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Gigantus; Doctor Stephen Strange; Watcher; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by Marie Severin. Credits include Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, Marie Severin, Stan Goldberg, and Flo Steinberg.
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The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!, Chapter 1: On the Trail of the Torch!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]
Synopsis: The Fantastic Four is searching for the runaway Human Torch.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was The Coming of... Sub-Mariner! Chapter 1 On the Trail of the Torch! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-643
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[The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 2: Enter the Sub-Mariner!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]
Synopsis: Fleeing the Thing, the runaway Human Torch finds the amnesiac Sub-Mariner.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was Chapter 2 Enter the Sub-Mariner! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 3: Let the World Beware!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]
Synopsis: The Human Torch drops the Sub-Mariner into the sea and he regains his memory.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was Chapter 3 Let the World Beware! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: V-643
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[The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 4: Sub-Mariner's Revenge!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Giganto (introduction)
Synopsis: The Sub-Mariner sends Giganto to smash New York.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was Chapter 4 Sub-Mariner's Revenge! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!] Chapter: 5 Return to the Deep!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Giganto (death)
Synopsis: The Thing walks into Giganto with a bomb and blows him up. The Human Torch sweeps the Sub-Mariner and Giganto away into the sea. The Sub-Mariner says "I'll be back!"
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was Chapter 5 Return to the Deep! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-643
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Iron Man versus Gargantus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Gargantus (introduction, origin); Jeanne; Marion
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #40 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1963
was Iron Man versus Gargantus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-131
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Dr. Strange, Master of Black Magic!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, supernatural
Character(s): Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange] (introduction); Wong (introduction, unnamed); Ancient One [Yao] (introduction, called "the Master"); Nightmare (introduction)
Synopsis: Doctor Strange is called on by a man having bad dreams, and confronts Nightmare. The man’s dreams reveal that he is guilty of fraud and Strange makes him confess.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #110 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1963
was Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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The Saga of the Sneepers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Watcher [Uatu] (narrator)
Synopsis: An alien race watches humanity's progress, worried that they will one day overtake them. With the invention of the atomic bomb and the Cold War, they decide that humanity will wipe itself out before it poses a threat.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #49 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1964
was The Saga of the Sneepers! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Banished to Outer Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner] (Brief Origin); Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross
Synopsis: The military captures Rick and Ross convinces him that they need the Hulk to test a new experimental rocket for national security. Rick tricks the jade giant into the capsule but once it is shot into space, he realizes that Ross deceived him to get rid of his foe. Rick overrides the programming and returns the rocket to earth but not before Banner (he transformed back to his human form when the rocket came into view of the sun) is doused with further radiation. The Hulk is now unable to revert to his human form and is under Rick's control but only while Rick remains awake.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #3 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1962
was Banished to Outer Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Job Number: V-869

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