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Issue: Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #1
Publication Date: December 1965
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Issues: #1 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: 10/05/1965
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Publication date based on article within regular feature "Marvel Bullpen Bulletins!" as printed in The Avengers #23 (December 1965).
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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
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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]]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]; Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky]; Odin
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contains cover reproductions, with some modifications, from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 Series) #2, The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 Series) #3, and Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 Series) #36. Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 Series) #97 used as a background for an image from the Tales of Asgard story, page 5, panel 2.
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A Message From Your Bullpen!

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside from cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by Marie Severin. Credits include Stan Lee, Sol Brodsky, Marie Severin Stan Goldberg and Flo Steinberg.
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The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space! [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]]
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1962
was The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!] Part 2: Prisoner of the Skrulls

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]]
Synopsis: The real FF is inprisoned by the government for their criminal acts. They escape and decide to flush out the imitating Skrulls.
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1962
was Part 2 Prisoner of the Skrulls [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!, Part 3] The Fantastic Four Fight Back!

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]]
Synopsis: The FF infiltrate the Skrull mothership and pose as the Skrull spies. Mr. Fantastic uses clippings from Strange Tales and Journey Into Mystery to trick the Skrulls into thinking that the Earth forces are too strong to attack.
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1962
was The Fantastic Four Fight Back! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!, Part 4] The Fantastic Four... Captured!

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]]
Synopsis: The four Skrull spies are captured, forced to take on the form of cows and then hypnotized to forget all of their former lives.
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Four #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1962
was The Fantastic Four... Captured! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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The Challenge of Comrade X!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky] (introduction)
Synopsis: Ant-Man is hunted by a Soviet agent sent to capture him, but a beautiful stranger warns him of the spy's whereabouts. Ant-Man realizes that the woman is really the spy and defeats her.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #36 [unnamed variant] published October 1962
was The Challenge of Comrade X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
Job Number: V-858
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Tales of... ...Asgard! Home of the Mighty Norse Gods

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Odin (origin); Surtur (introduction); Ymir (introduction, origin); Buri (introduction, origin, cameo); Borr (introduction, origin, cameo); Audhumbla (called "Magic Cow"); Vili (unnamed, origin, cameo); Vé (unnamed, origin, cameo); Bestla (unnamed, cameo)
Synopsis: Story about how Odin and his brothers protected the Earth while waiting for the coming of man.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #97 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1963
was Tales of... ...Asgard! Home of the Mighty Norse Gods [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Spider-Man versus Doctor Octopus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; May Parker; Flash Thompson; Liz Allan; J Jonah Jameson; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius] (introduction; origin)
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From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #3 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1963
was Spider-Man Versus Doctor Octopus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 21
Job Number: X-219
Disclose Notes: pg. 8 - Doc Ock calls Spider-Man "Super-Man"

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