Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5 (Marvel, 1966) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $179.25

Sold: Aug 30, 2009

Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1966

About Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5

Reprints Fantastic Four #8, Tales of Suspense #42, Strange Tales #114, and The Incredible Hulk #4.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Puppet Master [Phillip Masters]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Red Barbarian [Ivan Krushki]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Baron Mordo [Karl Mordo]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones

Pencils: Jack Kirby (cover repros of FF, Tales of Suspense and Hulk scene); Steve Ditko (Dr. Strange scene); Larry Lieber (Watcher vignette)

Inks: Dick Ayers (FF cover repro and Hulk scene); Don Heck (Tales of Suspense cover repro); George Roussos (Dr. Strange scene); Sol Brodsky (Watcher vignette)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Sam Rosen; Artie Simek

Notes: Contains cover reproductions, with some modifications, from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 Series) #8 and Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 Series) #42. Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 Series) #111 and The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 Series) #4 used as a background for an image from the Doctor Strange story, page 1 and Hulk story, page 1.

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Title: Prisoners of the Puppet Master! [Part 1]

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

Synopsis: The Puppet Master tests his radioactive clay that gives him the power to remotely control people that are modeled in the clay.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Sam Rosen

Title: [Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 2: The Hands of the Puppet Maker

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Puppet Master; Alicia Masters (introduction); Warden Williams (introduction)

Synopsis: The Puppet Master gets the Thing under his command and imprisons the Invisible Girl. He then sends the Thing and Alicia Masters, disguised as Sue Storm, to infiltrate the Baxter Building.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 3: The Lady and the Monster!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Alicia Masters

Synopsis: While acting under the Puppet Master's influence, the Thing is subjected to one of Mister Fantastic's potions that changes him back to Ben Grimm.

Pages: 3.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 4: Face-to-face with the Puppet Master!

Characters: Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Alicia Masters; Puppet Master; Puppet Master's winged horse; Warden Williams

Synopsis: The Puppet Master stages a jailbreak just to prove his might. Invisible Girl sends a distress signal to her teammates and the Puppet Master flees when meeting the combined forces of the Fantastic Four.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: [Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 5: Death of a Puppet!

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

Synopsis: The jail break is stopped by the Fantastic Four and the Puppet Master falls to what seems to be his death.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: Trapped by the Red Barbarian

Characters: Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Red Barbarian (introduction); Actor (introduction)

Synopsis: A Soviet spymaster sends a master of disguise to steal the design of Tony Stark's latest weapon. The Actor steals the plans and learns Iron Man's secret identity, but Iron Man regains the plans and tricks the communists into killing their own agent.

Pages: 13.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: E. Thomas

Title: Journey's End!

Characters: Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Wilbur Weems; Sally

Synopsis: A meek and lonely space pilot volunteers for a suicide mission to investigate a strange cosmic cloud. The cloud hides a utopian planet, whose inhabitants only want humans brave enough to face the unknown to visit them.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Larry Lieber

Inks: Sol Brodsky

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: The Return of the Omnipotent Baron Mordo!

Characters: Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Ancient One [Yao]; Victoria Bentley (introduction, origin); Baron Mordo [Karl Amadeus Mordo, also as Sir Clive Bentley]

Synopsis: Strange is lured into a trap in England by Baron Mordo, but defeats him with the help of a woman with latent magical talents.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Steve Ditko

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Terry Szenics

Title: The Gladiator from Outer Space!

Characters: Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Mongu [Boris Monguski] (introduction)

Synopsis: An alien invades earth and claims his people will conquer the planet unless he is met in battle by the strongest opponent the world has to offer. Hulk meets the challenge but finds out it is all a ploy by the Russians to capture him and create an army of hulks of their own.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Jon D'Agostino ?

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