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The Fantasy Masterpieces series
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For anyone looking for a nice sampling of the best of Timely, this vintage reprint series from 1966 can’t be beat and published during the pinnacle of the Marvel Silver Age of Comics. Many Timely collectors today attribute Fantasy Masterpieces as the start of their collecting journey. It took another 25 years before such reprints were tackled again, but this time on slick paper in Marvel Milestones, Marvel Masterworks and Omnibuses. Here’s the golden age contents of each vintage issue carefully chosen by the Marvel Bullpen staff in 1966 including the continuation of the series as Marvel Super-Heroes that introduced The Guardians Of the Galaxy and Carol Danvers to the Marvel Cinematic Universe:

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 3 (1966)

"The Hunchback of Hollywood and the Movie Murder" from Captain America Comics #3, -script by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Bernie Klein and George Roussos

"The Weird Case of the Pludering Butterfly and the Ancient Mummies!" from Captain America Comics #3, -script by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Reed Crandall

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 4 (1966)

"The Menace of Dr. Grimm" from Captain America Comics #4, -script and art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

"The Case of the Fake Money Fiends." from Captain America Comics #4, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon

"Captain America and Ivan the Terrible" from Captain America Comics #4, -script and inks by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, pencils by Jack Kirby

*MARVEL SUPER-HEROES KINGSIZE SPECIAL (1966 released the same month as Fantasy Masterpieces #4))

 “The Sub-Mariner” story from Marvel Mystery #8 (June 1940)

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 5 (1966)

"Captain America and the Ringmaster of Death" from Captain America Comics #5, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon

"The Gruesome Secret of the Dragon of Doom!" from Captain America Comics #5, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon

"Killers of the Bund" from Captain America Comics #5, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 6 (1966)

"Captain America and the Red Skull" from Captain America Comics #7, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon

"The Phantom Hound of Cardiff Moor" from Captain America Comics #10, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon

"Meet The Fang Arch Fiend Of The Orient from Captain America Comics #6, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon.

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 7 (1966)

"The Human Torch" story from Marvel Mystery #8 (June 1940)

"Prince Namor, The Sub Mariner" from Marvel Mystery #3

"Death Loads the Bases" from Captain America Comics #7

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 8 (1967)

The Human Torch versus the Sub-Mariner from Marvel Mystery Comics #9, -script by Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, and John Compton, art by Bill Everett and Carl Burgos

Death Plays the Scales!! from Captain America Comics #7, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 9 (1967)

"The Human Torch" from Marvel Comics #1, -script and art by Carl Burgos

"The Sub-Mariner" from Marvel Mystery #4, -script and art by Bill Everett

"Captain America: A Personal Accounting Of His Smashing a Spy Ambush" from Captain America Comics #10, -script and pencils by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon;.

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 10 (1967)

The Crime of the Ages! from All-Winners Comics #19, -script by Bill Finger, pencils by Syd Shores

FANTASY MASTERPIECES 11 (1967)

"Introducing Toro the Flaming Torch Kid" from Human Torch #1 (1940)

A Sub-Mariner story from Sub-Mariner #34

"Hotel Of Death" from Captain America Comics #10

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 12 (1967 Capt Marvel cover story)

The Human Torch by Ayers (from Men's Adventures # 27; 1954)

The Destroyer (from All Winners # 12; 1944)

Captain America (from Men's Adventures # 28; 1954)

The Black Knight by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely (from Black Knight # 1; 1955)

The Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett (from Sub-Mariner # 38; 1955).

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 13 (1967 introducing Carol Danvers)

The Black Knight by Joe Maneely (Black Knight #2 1955)

The Human Torch by Ayers ("Fugitive at Large!" from Submariner #35 1954)

The Vision (1941) from Marvel Mystery 25

Captain America by John Romita Sr. ("Top Secret!" 1953 from Young Men 25)

The Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett ("Invasion!" 1955 from Submariner 42)

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 14 (1968 Spiderman cover story)

The Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett from Submariner 34 1954

The Human Torch from Young Men #25 (1954)

Mercury (first Jack Kirby art at Marvel) – Red Raven 1 1940

The Black Knight by Joe Maneely from Black Knight #2 (1955)

Captain America ("The Girl Who Was Afraid") from Men’s Adventures 27 (1954)

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 15 (1968 Medusa cover story)

The Black Knight by Joe Maneely from Black Knight #2 1955

"The Dawn of the Sub-Mariner" by Bill Everett from Submariner 35 1954

The Black Marvel from Mystic 5 1940

"Captain America Turns Traitor!" by John Romita Sr. from Young Men 26 1954

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 16 (1968 Phantom Eagle cover story)

The Human Torch by Ayers ("The Un-Human!" unpublished story 1950’s)

Captain America by John Romita Sr. ("The Cargo of Death!" from Young Men 28 1954)

The Black Knight by Joe Maneely

The Patriot from Marvel Mystery 29 1942

The Sub-Mariner from Submariner 35 1954

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 17 (1968 Black Knight cover story)

The Human Torch from Men’s Adventures 28 1954

The Sub-Mariner from Submariner 38 (1955)

Part 1 of The All-Winners Squad featuring Captain America and Bucky part 1 ("Menace From the Future World!" from All-Winners 21 1946-1947).

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 18 (1968 Guardians of the Galaxy cover story)

The Sub-Mariner ("Courage") from Submariner 36 1954

Part 2 of The All Winners Squad featuring Miss America, the Human Torch, and Captain America part 2 (from All Winners 21 1946-1947)

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 19 (1968 Kazar cover story)

The Human Torch from Young Men 26 1954

Marvel Boy by Bill Everett ("Verdict by Magic") from Astonishing #6 1951

The Black Knight by Joe Maneely from Black Knight #3 1955

The Sub-Mariner by Everett from Young Men 26 1954

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES 20 (1969 Doctor Doom cover story)

The Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett ("The Sub-Mariner Meets a New Enemy...Fire!") from Submariner 40 1955

The Human Torch “Return of the Human Torch” from Young Men 24 1953

Captain America ("Back From the Dead!") from Young Men 24 1953

The Sub-Mariner “The Submariner Returns” from Young Men 24 1953

THE INVADERS 20 (1975)

The Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett from Motion Picture Funnies Weekly 1939 re-colored

THE INVADERS 21 (1975)

The Sub-Mariner story by Bill Everett from Marvel Mystery #10 1940

THE INVADERS 24 (1975)

Human Torch and Sub-Mariner Fighting Side By Side from Marvel Mystery #17 1941

 

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Hidden 💎s for sure. Goodman played his cards right re-casting the GA Torch and Cap stories and sticking that to Burgos and Simon. The battle issue reprints were always my favorite, but I wonder why they didn’t slide in Caps 1-2 reprints? 

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It is very odd that they didn't do Cap 1 or 2. Maybe the original art or stats weren't readily available. Also interesting is that they only did the Simon & Kirby Caps and then they jumped to the 1950's Cap stories drawn by Romita. Romita's art style in the 1950's is almost unrecognizable compared to the style he developed in Spiderman.  

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very professional dental work! Here's another interesting page with 4 things that were changed: the title was discarded altogether (can't have a horror hospital), a glove is in place of the claw fingers of Dr. Grimm, the words "sinister and inhuman" have become "dark and weird" and curiously the mansion door was removed.

 

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On 7/25/2022 at 4:22 PM, Ameri said:

very professional dental work! Here's another interesting page with 4 things that were changed: the title was discarded altogether (can't have a horror hospital), a glove is in place of the claw fingers of Dr. Grimm, the words "sinister and inhuman" have become "dark and weird" and curiously the mansion door was removed.

 

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Lots of stat changes on the OA 👀

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I bought all the issues off the stands at the time and they were very popular among early collectors  at the time even with the 25 cents price tag. Great thread. I would say the best reproduction of the Cap stories and best volume I own is Timley's greatest: the golden age of Simon & Kirby Omnibus which contains all of S&K Timley material as well as some of the covers of the books they were in by other artists. Fantastic value on this one.

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