Fantasy Masterpieces #8

(April 1967)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas ?

Pencils

Jack Kirby; Bill Everett; Carl Burgos; Don Heck; Larry Lieber

Inks

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos; Paul Reinman; Don Heck; Dick Ayers

Letters

Sam Rosen

First Line of Dialogue or Text

From the glory-drenched pages of yesteryear...

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by John Verpoorten. Credits include Stan Lee, Sol Brodsky, Roy Thomas, Flo Steinberg, Stan Goldberg, Morrie Kuramoto and John Verpoorten.

The Human Torch versus the Sub-Mariner (Table of Contents: 2)

Human Torch; Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos; John Compton

Pencils

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos

Inks

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Bill Everett

Editing

Martin Goodman (original Editor); Joe Simon ? (original Editor)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor]; Betty Dean; un-named Police Chief; Police Chemist Frasier

Synopsis

Embittered when the Police Commissioner calls Torch afraid for not bringing in the Sub-Mariner as he promised, the Torch and Betty track down Namor and a battle royal begins that ends with the Fiery Fury being captured by Namor in an airless glass tube.

Reprints

• from Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #9 (July 1940), #10 (August 1940) [minus first panel]

I Saw Droom the Living Lizard! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)

Pencils

Don Heck

Inks

Don Heck

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Editing

Stan Lee (original Editor)

Job Number

T-634

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Droom (introduction, origin); Dr. Henry Gordon; Arnold

Synopsis

A scientist invents a growth serum intended to solve world hunger by enlarging vegetables. A tiny exotic lizard is accidentally soaked by the liquid and grows into a giant lizard that rampages across the country. They blast it into outer space and it drifts through space frozen, eventually landing on Earth to become the first dinosaur.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960)

Keywords

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. A revised version of Droom appears next in Fantastic Four / Iron Man: Big in Japan (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).

A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, All Portending Practically Nothing! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

The Man in the Beehive! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Editing

Stan Lee (original Editor)

Job Number

V-765

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Lucius Farnsworth; Eric

Synopsis

An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers. He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real.

Reprints

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #32 (August 1962)

Call Her... Medusa! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Larry Lieber (credited) (script)

Pencils

Larry Lieber (credited)

Inks

Paul Reinman (credited)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

Editing

Stan Lee (original Editor)

Genre

science fiction

Characters

John

Synopsis

The gorgons of myth were aliens and send an agent to modern Earth preceding an invasion. She cannot turn the first men she encounters to stone, but since she doesn't know that they're blind the invasion is cancelled.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #96 (September 1963)

Death Plays the Scales!! (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain America / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Joe Simon

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Howard Ferguson

Editing

Joe Simon (original Editor)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky [Bucky Barnes]; Sergeant Duffy; Senator Alvin Benson [death]; Inspector Grimes; Senator Shores; The Fiddler (introduction, death), Haver, Hobbs

Synopsis

Cap has to battle the evil intentions of a man who uses a domestic employment agency as a blind in order to get his Nazi agents into the homes of anti-Nazi Senators in order to kill them.

Reprints

• from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #7 (October 1941) [retitled]

Indexer Notes

The original title of this story was "Horror Plays the Scales".