Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #3 Pacific Coast Pedigree (Marvel, 1966) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $720.00

Sold: Jul 18, 2023

Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #3 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1966

About Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #3

Giant-size, square bound issue includes reprints of Fantastic Four #3; Tals of Suspense #40; and Incredible Hulk #3, among other stories.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Gargantus; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Watcher; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]

Pencils: Jack Kirby (cover repros)

Inks: Sol Brodsky (Fantastic Four cover); Don Heck (Tales of Suspense cover); Dick Ayers (Incredible Hulk cover)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Contains cover reproductions, with some modifications, from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 Series) #4, Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 Series) #40, and The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 Series) #3.

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Title: The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!, Chapter 1: On the Trail of the Torch!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]

Synopsis: The Fantastic Four is searching for the runaway Human Torch.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Sol Brodsky

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 2: Enter the Sub-Mariner!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]

Synopsis: Fleeing the Thing, the runaway Human Torch finds the amnesiac Sub-Mariner.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Sol Brodsky

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 3: Let the World Beware!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]

Synopsis: The Human Torch drops the Sub-Mariner into the sea and he regains his memory.

Pages: 3.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Sol Brodsky

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 4: Sub-Mariner's Revenge!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Giganto (introduction)

Synopsis: The Sub-Mariner sends Giganto to smash New York.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Sol Brodsky

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [The Coming of...Sub-Mariner!] Chapter: 5 Return to the Deep!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Giganto (death)

Synopsis: The Thing walks into Giganto with a bomb and blows him up. The Human Torch sweeps the Sub-Mariner and Giganto away into the sea. The Sub-Mariner says "I'll be back!"

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Sol Brodsky

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: Iron Man versus Gargantus!

Characters: Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Gargantus (introduction, origin); Jeanne; Marion

Pages: 13.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot); Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script)

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: John Duffy

Title: Dr. Strange, Master of Black Magic!

Characters: Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange] (introduction); Wong (introduction, unnamed); Ancient One [Yao] (introduction, called "the Master"); Nightmare (introduction)

Synopsis: Doctor Strange is called on by a man having bad dreams, and confronts Nightmare. The man’s dreams reveal that he is guilty of fraud and Strange makes him confess.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Steve Ditko

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Terry Szenics

Title: The Saga of the Sneepers!

Characters: Watcher [Uatu] (narrator)

Synopsis: An alien race watches humanity's progress, worried that they will one day overtake them. With the invention of the atomic bomb and the Cold War, they decide that humanity will wipe itself out before it poses a threat.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Larry Lieber

Inks: George Roussos [as G. Bell]

Letters: Sam Rosen

Title: Banished to Outer Space

Characters: Hulk [Bruce Banner] (Brief Origin); Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross

Synopsis: The military captures Rick and Ross convinces him that they need the Hulk to test a new experimental rocket for national security. Rick tricks the jade giant into the capsule but once it is shot into space, he realizes that Ross deceived him to get rid of his foe. Rick overrides the programming and returns the rocket to earth but not before Banner (he transformed back to his human form when the rocket came into view of the sun) is doused with further radiation. The Hulk is now unable to revert to his human form and is under Rick's control but only while Rick remains awake.

Pages: 11.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Art Simek

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	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	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	3	6	6	3	6	7	6	6	6	13	11	8	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	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
CGCxJSA	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	0	0	0
Restored	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	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	3	6	6	3	6	8	6	6	6	13	11	8	5	0	0	94

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