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Issue: Fantasy Masterpieces #10
Publication Date: August 1967
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Issues: #10 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: 06/08/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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 From10
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): All-Winners Squad [Captain America; Bucky; Human Torch; Toro; Sub-Mariner; Whizzer; Miss America]
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Captain America Omnibus #1 [Lee Weeks Cover] published February 2014
as Fantasy Masterpieces #10 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #19 published January 1946
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover + panels from stories
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: Another halcyon hallmark from the hectic hierarchy of Marveldom!
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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, Roy Thomas, Flo Steinberg, Stan Goldberg and Marie Severin.

Stan Lee is credited as King of Comics Editors, Roy Thomas as Warlord of Word-Balloons.
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The Crime of the Ages! [Chapter 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): All-Winners Squad [Captain America [Steve Rogers; William Naslund] (see note for Chapter 7); Bucky [Bucky Barnes; Fred Davis] (see note for Chapter 7); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]]; Professor Saba (introduction); Isbisa [Meke] (introduction)
Synopsis: The All-Winners Squad is hurriedly called to meet with the curator of a museum, whose exhibit, "The Ages of Mankind", has been smashed. In addition, a note has been left, signed by the mysterious Isbisa, who has challenged the members to follow up various clues he has left with each part of the exhibit in a winner-take-all battle. To make matters graver, Ibisa has left a spurious clue behind, intimating that Prince Namor is a part of the enemy camp.
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From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #19 published January 1946
was The Crime of the Ages! [Chapter 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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The Crime of the Ages! Chapter 2: The Age of Bronze!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers; William Naslund] (see note for Chapter 7); Bucky [Bucky Barnes; Fred Davis] (see note for Chapter 7); Isbisa; Porky (introduction); Cellini (introduction)
Synopsis: Cap and Bucky head to a museum of art to locate a valuable piece of bronze art and find the "Idol With the Starry Eyes".....a bronze idol that actually has star sapphires for eyes. When a gang infects the idol with "bronze disease", Cap figures out the crooks are planning to hijack the idol as it is shipped off for electrolysis treatment, only to discover the idol is a red herring and the crooks really want to valuable art on display.
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From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #19 published January 1946
was [The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 2: The Age of Bronze! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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The Crime of the Ages! Chapter 3: The Iron Age!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Cameron (movie director); Clark (movie actor); Isbisa; Shut-Eye (introduction)
Synopsis: Whizzer arrives at the movie set for a film involving the life of notorious train robber, Mal Brennings, and the director mentions that the old railroad locomotive was secured for the film that originally had been robbed of the non-recovered gold on board. Some of Isbisa's men attempt to rob the train again for real, but it is the Whizzer who discovers the missing gold under the planks of the locomotive's cab.
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From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #19 published January 1946
was [The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 3: The Iron Age! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Crime of the Ages! Chapter 4: The Steel Age

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Bobby Lee (a policewoman); Isbisa; James Flore (architect)
Synopsis: The Torch is lured into a trap, but is rescued by a lady policewoman who is engaged to a detective that wants her to quit the force. However, she refuses to do so until she can solve one important case, and the Torch offers to help her do just that. The case: why does a newly constructed bank have a secret entrance that connects to a sewage tunnel?
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From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #19 published January 1946
was [The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 4 The Steel Age [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Awe-inspiring Announcements for You to Yawn With!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bullpen Bulletins
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan's Soapbox, Items, The Mighty Marvel Checklist, Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
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The Crime of the Ages! Chapter 5: The Stone Age

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; John (Millstone Chief of Police); Isbisa; the Calcium Master (introduction, death)
Synopsis: Miss America heads to Millstone to visit the Chief of Police, but finds him turned to stone. When she finds a note from someone called the Calcium Master, who claims to be able to restore him to life for $10,000, she smells a rat and tracks down the vile sculptor responsible.
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From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #19 published January 1946
was [The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 5: The Stone Age [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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The Crime of the Ages! Chapter 6: The Ice Age!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sub-Mariner; Toro
Character(s): Namor the Sub-Mariner; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Isbisa; Black Patch (introduction)
Synopsis: Toro joins Namor as the Prince heads up to a major Eskimo trading post to deal with a band of cut-throats who are using their whaling ship as a hideout for their fur hijacking mob!
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From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #19 published January 1946
was [The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 6: The Ice Age! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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The Crime of the Ages! Chapter 7: Conclusion!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): All-Winners Squad [Captain America [Steve Rogers; William Naslund] (see note); Bucky [Bucky Barnes; Fred Davis] (see note); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]]; Isbisa [Meke]
Synopsis: When the All-Winners Squad members reconvene after their various adventures, they discover Isbisa's challenge to them was a red herring, so that the master criminal would be free to pursue his main crime: the stealing of the atomic bomb, and to accomplish his main goal: to become dictator of the world!
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From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #19 published January 1946
was [The Crime of the Ages!], Chapter 7: Conclusion! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Chronologically, the next All-Winners Squad story is What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #4, which retroactively establishes that the post-war Captain America and Bucky here are William Naslund (a.k.a. The Spirit of '76) and Fred Davis. In that story, Naslund is killed and replaced as Captain America by The Patriot (Jeff Mace).
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fantasy Mailbag
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Roy L. Davis and David Kies; includes M.M.M.S. membership form.
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There Were Five Frightened Men...!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Victor Conrad; Mr. Smythe
Synopsis: An art thief steals a painting of frightened men, only to be trapped in it as one of them.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #54 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1964
was There Were Five Frightened Men...! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Beware! He Isn't Human!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Eric Krugg; Diane Harper
Synopsis: A Hollywood special effects man builds an android to slay a woman who rejected his advances because she was "waiting". After he sends the robot to the museum where she works, he relaxes for a sufficient time, and then is startled when she appears at the door with the robot. She reveals that she too, is a robot, and she was "waiting" for a robot to be a mate. The two machines slowly approach him as he backs towards an open window which he falls through.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #9 published June 1971
as Attention! Il n'est pas humain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #77 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1962
was Beware! He Isn't Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Job Number: V-493

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