Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #4 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1966

About Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #4

Reprints Fantastic Four #7, Incredible Hulk #4, Tales of Suspense #41 (third appearance of Iron Man), and Strange Tales #111 (second appearance of Doctor Strange).

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Doctor Carlo Strange; Carla Strange; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Mongu

Pencils: Jack Kirby (cover repros); Steve Ditko (Dr. Strange image)

Inks: Dick Ayers (Hulk cover); Sol Brodsky (Tales of Suspense cover); Jack Kirby (Fantastic Four cover); Steve Ditko (Dr. Strange image)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Sam Rosen; Artie Simek

Notes: Contains cover reproductions, with some modifications, from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 Series) #7, Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 Series) #41, and The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 Series) #4. Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 Series) #111 used as a background for an image from the Doctor Strange story, page 3, panel 3.

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: Prisoners of Kurrgo, Master of Planet X, Part 1: It Came from the Skies!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Kurrgo (introduction); Kurrgo's robot (introduction)

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [Prisoners of Kurrgo, Master of Planet X] Part 2: Outlawed

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

Synopsis: The robot from Planet X puts broadcasts a "hostility ray" to make people riot against the Fantastic Four.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [Prisoners of Kurrgo, Master of Planet X] Part 3: Bound for Planet X!

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

Synopsis: The robot grants the Fantastic Four asylum on Planet X.

Pages: 3.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Terry Szenics

Title: [Prisoners of Kurrgo, Master of Planet X] Part 4: Twenty Four Hours till Zero!

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

Synopsis: Kurrgo orders the Fantastic Four to save his people from Planet X's destruction.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Terry Szenics

Title: [Prisoners of Kurrgo, Master of Planet X] Part 5: The End of Planet X!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Kurrgo (death)

Synopsis: Kurrgo perishes on Planet X, but his people get away from its destruction.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: The Stonghold of Doctor Strange!

Characters: Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Doctor Carlo Strange (introduction); Carla Strange (introduction); Nikita Khrushchev (cameo)

Synopsis: An imprisoned criminal scientist takes control of Iron Man in order to free himself. He threatens to blow up the world unless he is made world ruler. Iron Man stops him by shorting out his power and is helped by the villain's conscience-stricken daughter.

Pages: 13.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Martin Epstein [as Marty Epp]

Title: Face-to-Face with the Magic of Baron Mordo!

Characters: Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Baron Mordo [Karl Amadeus Mordo] (introduction); Hamir (introduction, unnamed); Ancient One [Yao] (called "the Master")

Synopsis: In his castle in Europe, Baron Mordo plots to steal the secrets of his former master, the Ancient One. Sending his spirit form to Tibet, he causes Hamir to poison the Ancient One's food. From his NYC sanctum, Strange senses his master's plight, and challenges Mordo to a battle in their spirit forms. After, the Ancient One warns Strange that Mordo will be a danger to them both, as long as he lives.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Steve Ditko

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Terry Szenics

Title: The Monster and the Machine!

Characters: Hulk [Bruce Banner] (origin recap); Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross

Synopsis: Rick uses some of Banner's machinery to transform the Hulk, who was stuck in his monster persona, back into Bruce. Bruce is incredibly weakened by the transformation and takes a chance in using the machinery on himself again which transforms him back into the Hulk's body but with Bruce Banner's mind. Now Bruce and the Hulk can switch at will using the gamma ray machine.

Pages: 14.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie 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	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	5	4	3	3	3	2	5	6	7	11	13	5	0	0	72
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	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
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	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	5	5	3	4	3	2	5	6	7	11	13	5	0	0	74

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