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Issue: Fantasy Masterpieces #2

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Publication Date: April 1966

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Detail

Issues: #2 of 11 Issues (13 Printings)

Title:

Variant: U.S. Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Zenith Books Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/03/1966

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.12 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Stan Lee

Notes: On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: squarebound (#1-2 saddle-stitched)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

Fantasy Masterpieces #2 [U.S. Cover Price]

Fantasy Masterpieces #2 [UK Cover Price]

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Reprinted From5

4 Content Items

reprinted 5 times from Content Items in other Issues.

Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Assets1

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Indicia

Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Golden Age Captain America Omnibus #1 [Lee Weeks Cover] published February 2014
as Fantasy Masterpieces #2 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

From Content Item: Flag

Journey into Mystery #57 published March 1960
was Orogo! The Thing from Beyond! [Illustration on Cover, Front]

From Content Item: Flag

Strange Tales #89 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1961
was Fin Fang Foom! [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Cover composed of panels from reprinted stories.

Fin Fang Foom!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Chan Liuchow; Chung Liuchow; Fin Fang Foom (introduction)

Synopsis: A young historian from Taiwan is scorned by his father for his refusal to join the army, even in the face of an imminent communist invasion. Instead of fighting directly, he crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its lair before restoring its mystical slumber.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Strange Tales #89 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1961
was Fin Fang Foom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-318

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Fin Fang Foom next appears in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (April 1974).

Those Who Lurk Below!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Pierre; Kragok

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Tales of Suspense #12 published November 1960
was Those Who Lurk Below! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: T-853

Notes: Narrated in the first person.

Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Orogo; Albert Carstairs

Synopsis: An alien robot arrives to hypnotically enslave the people of Earth, but is stopped when it cannot hypnotize one old man, a blind man.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Journey into Mystery #57 published March 1960
was Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: T-593

Notes: Jack Kirby penciled the splash page, which was inked by Don Heck.