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Issue: Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5
Publication Date: October 1966
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Issues: #5 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: 07/07/1966
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 12 (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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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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]]; Puppet Master [Phillip Masters]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Red Barbarian [Ivan Krushki]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Baron Mordo [Karl Mordo]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones
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In Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published January 2008
as Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5 [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) #8 and Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 Series) #42. Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 Series) #111 and The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 Series) #4 used as a background for an image from the Doctor Strange story, page 1 and Hulk story, page 1.
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Yet Another Marvel Milestone...

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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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, Denny O'Neil and Flo Steinberg.
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Prisoners of the Puppet Master! [Part 1]

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]]; Puppet Master (introduction)
Synopsis: The Puppet Master tests his radioactive clay that gives him the power to remotely control people that are modeled in the clay.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #8 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was Prisoners of the Puppet Master! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-950
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[Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 2: The Hands of the Puppet Maker

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]]; Puppet Master; Alicia Masters (introduction); Warden Williams (introduction)
Synopsis: The Puppet Master gets the Thing under his command and imprisons the Invisible Girl. He then sends the Thing and Alicia Masters, disguised as Sue Storm, to infiltrate the Baxter Building.
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #8 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was The Hands of the Puppet Maker Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-950
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[Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 3: The Lady and the Monster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Alicia Masters
Synopsis: While acting under the Puppet Master's influence, the Thing is subjected to one of Mister Fantastic's potions that changes him back to Ben Grimm.
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #8 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was The Lady and the Monster! Part 3 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: V-950
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[Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 4: Face-to-face with the Puppet Master!

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]]; Alicia Masters; Puppet Master; Puppet Master's winged horse; Warden Williams
Synopsis: The Puppet Master stages a jailbreak just to prove his might. Invisible Girl sends a distress signal to her teammates and the Puppet Master flees when meeting the combined forces of the Fantastic Four.
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #8 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was Face-to-face with the Puppet Master! Part 4 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-950
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[Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 5: Death of a Puppet!

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]]; Alicia Masters; Puppet Master
Synopsis: The jail break is stopped by the Fantastic Four and the Puppet Master falls to what seems to be his death.
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #8 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was Death of a Puppet! Part 5 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-950
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Trapped by the Red Barbarian

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Red Barbarian (introduction); Actor (introduction)
Synopsis: A Soviet spymaster sends a master of disguise to steal the design of Tony Stark's latest weapon. The Actor steals the plans and learns Iron Man's secret identity, but Iron Man regains the plans and tricks the communists into killing their own agent.
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From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #42 [U.S. Cover Price] published June 1963
was Trapped by the Red Barbarian [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Journey's End!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Wilbur Weems; Sally
Synopsis: A meek and lonely space pilot volunteers for a suicide mission to investigate a strange cosmic cloud. The cloud hides a utopian planet, whose inhabitants only want humans brave enough to face the unknown to visit them.
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From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #50 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1964
was Journey's End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-526
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The Return of the Omnipotent Baron Mordo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, supernatural
Character(s): Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Ancient One [Yao]; Victoria Bentley (introduction, origin); Baron Mordo [Karl Amadeus Mordo, also as Sir Clive Bentley]
Synopsis: Strange is lured into a trap in England by Baron Mordo, but defeats him with the help of a woman with latent magical talents.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #76/77 published January 1978
as Le retour du tout-puissant Baron Mordo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #114 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1963
was The Return of the Omnipotent Baron Mordo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-450
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The Gladiator from Outer Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Mongu [Boris Monguski] (introduction)
Synopsis: An alien invades earth and claims his people will conquer the planet unless he is met in battle by the strongest opponent the world has to offer. Hulk meets the challenge but finds out it is all a ploy by the Russians to capture him and create an army of hulks of their own.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was The Gladiator from Outer Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Now on Sale!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Avengers [Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Giant Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]
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Reprint Notes:  
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Marvel Super Heroes #1 reprinting the cover.

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