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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published August 1966
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details

Pencils Jack Kirby (Captain America figure); Don Heck; Joe Sinnott
Inks Jack Kirby (Captain America figure); Don Heck; Joe Sinnott
Colors Stan Goldberg
Notes Inks originally credited to Frank Giacoia, it was actually inked by Jack Kirby according to Mark Evanier via http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_01_07.html#009393 (7 January 2005).

13 page Captain America story "The Menace of Dr. Grimm!"

Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #4 (June 1941)

10 page Captain America story "The Case of the Fake Money Fiends"

Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #4 (June 1941)

13 page story "The Thing Called...It!"

Characters Heinrich Munch; Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
Synopsis 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.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Colors Stan Goldberg
Notes This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter 1 (6 pp) and chapter 2—"It" Lives! (7pp).
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82 (March 1961)

6 page story "They Vanished Forever!"

Characters Captain William Reynold; Thomas Clark
Synopsis 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.
Genre horror
Pencils Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Colors Stan Goldberg
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #98 (July 1962)

6 page story "I Am the Beast Man!"

Synopsis 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.
Genre horror
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Colors Stan Goldberg
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960) [originally titled "My Nightmare Has No End!"]

9 page Captain America story "Ivan the Terrible"

Genre superhero
Script Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #4 (June 1941)