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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Fantasy Masterpieces
Issue: 8
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: April 1967
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee; Roy Thomas (associate editor)

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Fantasy Masterpieces #8 (1967 Marvel Comics/ Twin Cities Pedigree)
Owner: Triskelion

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Captain America


Story Title: [ no title ] - table of contents
Pages:1


Story Title: The Human Torch versus the Sub-Mariner - comic story
Pages:22
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.


Story Title: I Saw Droom the Living Lizard! - comic story
Pages:7
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.


Story Title: A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, All Portending Practically Nothing! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Man in the Beehive! - comic story
Pages:7
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.


Story Title: Call Her... Medusa! - comic story
Pages:5
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.


Story Title: Death Plays the Scales!! - comic story
Pages:13
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.


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