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Issue: Fantasy Masterpieces #4
Publication Date: August 1966
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Issues: #4 of 11 Issues (13 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/02/1966
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee; Roy Thomas (associate editor)
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 (#1-2 saddle-stitched)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Captain America Omnibus #1 [Lee Weeks Cover] published February 2014
as Fantasy Masterpieces #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Kirby inks per Mark Evanier via http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_01_07.html#009393 (7 January 2005)and confirmed in the Bullpen Bulletins page which appeared in Marvel's comics for this month. Previous indexer credited Frank Giacoia.

Vignettes taken from interior stories.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: A peerless production by our pixelated purveyors...
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Miscellaneous
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, Roy Thomas, Flo Steinberg, Stan Goldberg, Marie Severin and Denny O'Neil.
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The Menace of Dr. Grimm!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Miss Ray; Betty Ross; Sgt. Duffy; Dr. Grimm (introduction, death), Gorro (introduction, death), Igan (introduction), Lomm (introduction)
Synopsis: Blood curdling screams coming from a desolate sanitarium lead Captain America into to the most horrible mystery of his career.
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From Content Item: FlagCaptain America Comics #4 published June 1941
was Horror Hospital [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled-some story/art alterations to conform to Comics Code restrictions
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: This story was originally titled "Horror Hospital".
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The Case of the Fake Money Fiends

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Tom Peters; Betty Ross; counterfeiting gang (villains)
Synopsis: Cap and Bucky dare to enter a haunted house in order to discover what the strange noises were emanating from it, and end up breaking up a large counterfeiting ring flooding the nation with millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.
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From Content Item: FlagCaptain America Comics #4 published June 1941
was The Case of the Fake Money Fiends [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Thing Called... It!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Professor Heinrich Munch; Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
Synopsis: A bitter scientist builds a monster to destroy his rival, failing in every attempt to animate it until the swamp accidentally gives the construct life. The creature has a conscience and refuses to murder, so its creator uses lies to turn the local people against it. In trying to kill his creation, the scientist is killed himself and another accident transfers the creature's consciousness into the scientist's human body, freeing the creature to live a noble life.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #82 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1961
was The Thing Called...It! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-70
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter 1 (6 pp) and chapter 2—"It" Lives! (7pp).
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They Vanished Forever!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Captain William Reynold; Thomas Clark
Synopsis: Sailors find the "Flying Dutchman" and take the ship's gold, despite the pleas of the ghost crew. They are turned into ghosts to replace that crew, leaving the man who refused the gold unharmed.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #98 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1962
was They Vanished Forever! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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I Am the Beast Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man meets an extradimensional being in his nightmares. The being tells him that the world he comes from is a paradise, but boring, and offers to switch places. The man agrees, but the traveller wakes up to find that he entered the dreams of a prisoner.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was My Nightmare Has No End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Originally titled "My Nightmare Has No End" as noted on the splash page.
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Captain America and Ivan the Terrible

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Betty Ross; King Peter Ross; Ivan the Terrible
Synopsis: Out of the pages of history steps the most brutal and feared tyrant of the Middle Ages to conquer all that dare to cross his path...that is, until he picked on Captain America and Bucky.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCaptain America Comics #4 published June 1941
was Ivan the Terrible [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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