Fantasy Masterpieces #4 Twin Cities pedigree (Marvel, 1966) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages....

Auction amount: $478.00

Sold: Feb 26, 2012

Fantasy Masterpieces #4 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1966

About Fantasy Masterpieces #4

Golden Age Captain America reprints. Jack Kirby cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Jack Kirby (Captain America figure); Don Heck; Joe Sinnott

Inks: Jack Kirby (Captain America figure); Don Heck; Joe Sinnott

Colors: Stan Goldberg ?

Letters: Sam Rosen

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.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The Menace of Dr. Grimm!

Characters: 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.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Pencils: Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Inks: Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Letters: Howard Ferguson

Notes: This story was originally titled "Horror Hospital".

Title: The Case of the Fake Money Fiends

Characters: 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.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Pencils: Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Inks: Joe Simon

Letters: Howard Ferguson

Title: The Thing Called...It!

Characters: 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.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter 1 (6 pp) and chapter 2—"It" Lives! (7pp).

Title: They Vanished Forever!

Characters: 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.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Dick Ayers (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Dick Ayers

Title: I Am the Beast Man!

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.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Morrie Kuramoto ?

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Originally titled "My Nightmare Has No End" as noted on the splash page.

Title: Ivan the Terrible

Characters: 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.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Letters: Howard Ferguson

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	5	1	0	2	1	2	1	3	6	10	14	9	18	11	5	0	0	93
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	5	3	0	2	1	2	1	3	6	10	15	10	18	11	5	0	0	97

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