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Fantastic Comics #4

Mar 1940 · Fox · 0.10 USD

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🏆 Best Normal Group Adventure Title (1966)

Fantastic Comics #4 is an anthology featuring multiple adventure heroes. "The Mighty Samson" confronts barbarians who possess a life-extending vest and demands they dissect him to regain a lost secret of health, while he uses a time machine to escape their mountain laboratory. "Space Smith" receives a mysterious radio call from a lunar station inviting him and Dianna to visit the Moon to observe a new comet, but their ship is drawn off course by an unknown force. "Stardust" battles the Super Wizard, a scientific genius dwelling in the Gobi Desert who has bored a hole to Earth's center and plans to drop a secret chemical to destroy the world.

Contains 9 stories

The Giant Robots of Kilgor

13 pp · Superhero

SamsonKilgor (villain, introduction, death)Prof. BrunRigo

Invasion of the Three-Armed Men

6 pp · Science Fiction

Flip FalconThree-Armed Men (villains)

The Legend of the Haunted Well

8 pp · Historical

Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]Alice (introduction)

Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick] arrives in a mysteriously deserted village cursed for a decade by a grieving father whose daughter Alice fell into an abandoned well ten years past—a tragedy the superstitious townspeople blame on dark magic. Determined to uncover the truth and free the village from fear, Richard descends into the well itself, discovering an astonishing underground world filled with ancient ruins, monstrous creatures, and secrets that may hold the key to what really happened to Alice.

The Silent Explosive

6 pp

Yank WilsonTerro (villain, introduction, death)

Headless Men of the Gold Comet

6 pp · Science Fiction

Space SmithDiannaThe Thinker (villain, introduction)

Untitled Adventure story

6 pp · Adventure, Aviation

Captain Kidd

Untitled Humor story

4 pp · Humor

Professor Fiend

The Mad Giant Experimenter

6 pp · Science Fiction, Superhero

StardustThe Mad Giant (introduction)Kamet (introduction)

The Problem of Prince Pizga

7 pp · Adventure

Sub SaundersThetis (introduction)Prince Pizga (villain, introduction, death)

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (Good) $174

CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $8,202

CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $6,981

CGC 8.0 · 2 in census $5,486

CGC 7.5 · 2 in census $5,486

CGC 7.0 none in existence

CGC 6.5 none in existence

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CGC 6.0 none in existence

CGC 5.5 · 3 in census $2,411

CGC 5.0 · 3 in census $1,993

CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $1,769

CGC 4.0 · 2 in census $1,769

CGC 3.5 · 1 in census $1,769

CGC 3.0 · 2 in census $1,612

CGC 2.5 · 2 in census $1,116

CGC 2.0 $907

CGC 1.5 none in existence

CGC 1.0 · 1 in census $537

CGC 0.5 · 2 in census $507*

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Full credits

writer, artist, inker, letterer Fletcher Hanks

cover pencils, inks Lou Fine

Reprints

Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics #56 (2005), You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] (2009), Fletcher Hanks : œuvres complètes #[nn] (2018)

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