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Issue: Fantasy Masterpieces #9
Publication Date: June 1967
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Issues: #9 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: 04/11/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 10 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee; Roy Thomas (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1967 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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Disclose Reprinted From6
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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The Origin of the Human Torch!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Captain America; Sub-Mariner
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Captain America Omnibus #1 [Lee Weeks Cover] published February 2014
as Fantasy Masterpieces #9 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: Never have thine eyes beheld more encompassing excitement...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside from cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by John Verpoorten. Credits include Stan Lee, Sol Brodsky, Roy Thomas, Flo Steinberg, Stan Goldberg, Gary Friedrich, Morrie Kuramoto, and John Verpoorten.
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Origin of the Human Torch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Human Torch (introduction and origin, an android); Prof. Phineas T. Horton (introduction); Mr. Harris (businessman); Tony Sardo (introduction, death), Red (introduction, death)
First Line: Gentlemen of the press - I called you to my laboratory because I, Professor Horton, have a difficult problem in my latest discovery..
Synopsis: After the Scientist's Guild convinces inventor Horton to dispose of his new creation, a "human torch", a clever criminal figures out a way to use this creation for his own evil purposes.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Comics #1 [1st Printing] published October 1939
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
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More Mixed-Up Madness from Marvel's Mighty Masters of Mysticism, Magnificence, and Misinformation!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan's Soapbox, Items, The Wrap-Up, The Mighty Marvel Checklist, house ad for Not Brand Echh series.
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The Sub-Mariner Goes To War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; Tha-Korr; Council of Three (introduction, Atlantean rulers); the Nazis
First Line: Namor, after having saved a British freighter from destruction by an enemy bomber and submarine...
Synopsis: Betty, concerned on what effect the Nazi submarine warfare has had on ocean-going travel and commerce, enlists the aid of the Sub-Mariner and his aerial subs to deal with the problem.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Mystery Comics #4 published February 1940
was The Sub-Mariner Goes to War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Monsteroso!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Monsteroso
Synopsis: A creature hatches from an egg and imagines itself lord of all it surveys, but it is suddenly drowned, as it is only a microbe in a scientist's culture.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was Monsteroso [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This story was retold in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (February 1962 series) as "The Terror of Tim Boo Baa" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Stan Lee is given a speculative writing credit based on his authorship of the retelling.
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We Search the Stars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sir Edward Ramsey
Synopsis: A space expedition discovers what they believe is a savage human-like species and flee, not suspecting that they are an advanced psychic race able to meet all their needs through thought.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #110 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1963
was We Search the Stars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-220
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I Don't Believe in.... Ghosts!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mr. Jordan; Wilbur Weems
Synopsis: A man offers fifty thousand dollars to anyone who can show him a ghost but, time after time, he proves that there is a rational explanation behind the sightings. It turns out he does this because he is a ghost himself, and wants to prevent haunted houses from being demolished, rendering their occupants homeless.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #77 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1962
was I Don't Believe in...Ghosts! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-494
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Spy Ambush

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Countess Mara (introduction); Franz
Synopsis: Cap and Bucky face the unparalled fury of a female Nazi agent, bent on capturing America's only model of the new rapid fire grenade gun for Hitler.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCaptain America Comics #10 published January 1942
was Spy Ambush [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fantasy Mailbag
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Albert Tindall and Ron Rencevicz; images from earlier stories; M.M.M.S. membership form, and Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!

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