Fantasy Masterpieces #6
In "An Ear for Music!", Stan Lee and Larry Lieber deliver a delightfully strange tale from the pages of Fantasy Masterpieces #6, where a desperate pitch for a story about a soul-bound blackmailer trapped in a mystic ruby sets the stage for something far stranger than fiction. Jack Kirby’s dynamic art, with inks by Dick Ayers and colors by Stan Goldberg, brings the surreal premise to life, while the cover by Kirby, Heck, and Reinman captures the story’s mysterious tone.
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A man tries to pitch to Stan Lee the story of a blackmailer who becomes trapped within a mystic ruby as an agent of Fate to direct recently departed souls to their destination. Stan rejects the story as too outlandish even for Tales of Suspense and the man leaves the office. Outside, the man mutters to himself that his secret is safe since even if the blackmailer escapes the ruby no one will believe him and then he blinks out of existence.
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