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Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5

Marvel · Series began 1965 · October 1966

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Dates

Cover date: October 1966
On sale: July 7, 1966
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, Bill Everettinks: Dick Ayers, Don Heck, George Roussos, Sol Brodsky, Steve Ditko, Bill Everett, Paul Reinmancolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Sam Rosen, Artie Simek, E. Thomasscript: Stan Lee, Robert Bernstein, Larry Lieberediting: Stan Lee

Stories

Prisoners of the Puppet Master! [Part 1] · 5 pages
The Puppet Master tests his radioactive clay that gives him the power to remotely control people that are modeled in the clay.
[Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 2: The Hands of the Puppet Maker · 5 pages
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.
[Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 3: The Lady and the Monster! · 3 pages
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.
[Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 4: Face-to-face with the Puppet Master! · 5 pages
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.
[Prisoners of the Puppet Master!] Part 5: Death of a Puppet! · 5 pages
The jail break is stopped by the Fantastic Four and the Puppet Master falls to what seems to be his death.
Trapped by the Red Barbarian · 13 pages
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.
Journey's End! · 5 pages
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.
The Return of the Omnipotent Baron Mordo! · 5 pages
Strange is lured into a trap in England by Baron Mordo, but defeats him with the help of a woman with latent magical talents.
The Gladiator from Outer Space! · 10 pages
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.