CATALOG RECORD

Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #3

Marvel · Series began 1965 · June 1966

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Dates

Cover date: June 1966
On sale: March 10, 1966
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber, Steve Ditkoinks: Sol Brodsky, Don Heck, Dick Ayers, George Roussos, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, Sam Rosen, John Duffy, Terry Szenicsscript: Stan Lee, Robert Bernstein, Larry Lieberediting: Stan Lee

Stories

The Coming of... Sub-Mariner! Chapter 1: On the Trail of the Torch! · 5 pages
The Fantastic Four is searching for the runaway Human Torch.
[The Coming of... Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 2: Enter the Sub-Mariner! · 5 pages
Fleeing the Thing, the runaway Human Torch finds the amnesiac Sub-Mariner.
[The Coming of... Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 3: Let the World Beware! · 3 pages
The Human Torch drops the Sub-Mariner into the sea and he regains his memory.
[The Coming of... Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 4: Sub-Mariner's Revenge! · 5 pages
The Sub-Mariner sends Giganto to smash New York.
[The Coming of... Sub-Mariner!] Chapter 5: Return to the Deep! · 5 pages
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!"
Iron Man versus Gargantus! · 13 pages
Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic! · 5 pages
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.
The Saga of the Sneepers! · 5 pages
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.
Banished to Outer Space Part 1 · 11 pages
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.

Reprinted in

Creepy Worlds (1962)