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Fantasy Masterpieces #4

Marvel · Series began 1966 · August 1966

Dates

Cover date
August 1966
On sale
June 2, 1966
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers, Joe Simoninks: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers, Joe Simonletters: Sam Rosen, Howard Ferguson, Artie Simek, Dick Ayersscript: Joe Simon, Jack Kirbycolors: Stan Goldbergediting: Joe Simon, Stan Lee

Stories

  • The Menace of Dr. Grimm! · 13 pages

    Blood curdling screams coming from a desolate sanitarium lead Captain America into to the most horrible mystery of his career.

  • The Case of the Fake Money Fiends · 10 pages

    Cap and Bucky dare to enter a haunted house in order to discover what the strange noises were emanating from it, and end up breaking up a large counterfeiting ring flooding the nation with millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.

  • The Thing Called... It! · 13 pages

    A bitter scientist builds a monster to destroy his rival, failing in every attempt to animate it until the swamp accidentally gives the construct life. The creature has a conscience and refuses to murder, so its creator uses lies to turn the local people against it. In trying to kill his creation, the scientist is killed himself and another accident transfers the creature's consciousness into the scientist's human body, freeing the creature to live a noble life.

  • They Vanished Forever! · 6 pages

    Sailors find the "Flying Dutchman" and take the ship's gold, despite the pleas of the ghost crew. They are turned into ghosts to replace that crew, leaving the man who refused the gold unharmed.

  • I Am the Beast Man! · 6 pages

    A man meets an extradimensional being in his nightmares. The being tells him that the world he comes from is a paradise, but boring, and offers to switch places. The man agrees, but the traveller wakes up to find that he entered the dreams of a prisoner.

  • Captain America and Ivan the Terrible · 9 pages

    Out of the pages of history steps the most brutal and feared tyrant of the Middle Ages to conquer all that dare to cross his path...that is, until he picked on Captain America and Bucky.

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