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Fantastic Comics #8

Jul 1940 · Fox · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue contains multiple superhero stories, including one featuring Samson destroying the Mask of Fire, and a Space Smith adventure in which the hero and his companion Dianna travel in their interplanetary ship from Mars to the newly discovered red planet Bloody to investigate its strange spectrum, only to discover it is covered with wide flatbaeus and inhabited by green "Emerald Men" who plan to conquer Earth and enslave its people using gas bombs. Meanwhile, Stardust learns of the alien invasion plot through his thought-process television unit and heads toward Earth to intercept the threat. The issue also features stories of Yank Wilson and Sub Saunders, along with a Flip and Adele adventure involving giant spiders and bats that forces the Fourth Dimension Bolt to rescue them.

Contains 9 stories
The Plot of Prince Diablo
13 pp · Superhero
SamsonPrince Fernando Diablo (villain, introduction, death)
A Trip into the Unknown
6 pp · Adventure
Flip Falcon

Flip Falcon invents a remarkable reducing fluid and sets out with Adele to use it against the Heidites, but their fourth-dimension machine goes haywire and lands them on a bizarre alien world. Stranded on a planet of carnivorous plants and spider-like creatures, Flip and Adele must use their wits and his shrinking serum to survive encounters with hostile life forms while waiting for their machine to bring them home.

Duel with Saladin
8 pp · Adventure
Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]Saladin (villain, death)Saracens (villain)
The House of Four Elms
6 pp · Spy
Yank WilsonEmil and other un-named spies (villains, introduction)

Yank Wilson, super-spy Q-4, follows a trail of stolen military plans to a mysterious safe house guarded by a clever audio device hidden in a tree. When he's captured by the spy ring and forced aboard a bomber with a bomb strapped to him, the resourceful agent turns the tables with a daring aerial maneuver that targets the spies' headquarters itself.

The Space Leeches of Planet Bloodu
6 pp · Science Fiction
Space SmithDiannaBloodusians (villains, introduction)Trekurs (villains, introduction)
Untitled Adventure story
6 pp · Adventure
Captain Kidd
Untitled Humor story
2 pp · Humor
Professor Fiend
The Emerald Men of Asperus
6 pp · Science Fiction, Superhero
StardustThe Emerald Men (villains, introduction)

Stardust detects a dire threat from beyond the stars: the Emerald Men of Asperus, a superintelligent alien race plotting to enslave Earth by using planetary-control gas bombs to sever our world from the Sun's influence. Racing against time, the cosmic crime-fighter must intercept the incoming bombardment and confront the emerald invaders in a spectacular battle across the void.

The Octopeople of Ectroia
7 pp · Adventure
Sub SaundersGuest Star: LantidaThe Octopeople (villains, introduction)

Sub Saunders, a young officer in the submarine forces, springs into action when Queen Lantida of the lost undersea city of Atlantis vanishes—and his investigation leads him to a mysterious cavern ruled by the Octopeople, a race that worships a colossal octopus god. With his crew treated to survive underwater and a battalion of Atlantean frogmen at his back, Sub must navigate deadly vapors and face down a monstrous sacrifice to save the queen and stop the Octopeople's dark plans.

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (Good) $1,224
CGC 9.6 · 1 in census $38,287*
CGC 9.4 none in existence
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $12,413*
CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $9,937
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CGC 7.5 · 3 in census $7,814
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $6,493*
CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 · 2 in census $4,638
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 2 in census $3,537
CGC 4.5 · 2 in census $2,844
CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $2,844
CGC 3.5 · 3 in census $2,710
CGC 3.0 none in existence
CGC 2.5 · 1 in census $1,785*
CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $1,519*
CGC 1.5 · 1 in census $1,184
CGC 1.0 none in existence
CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $870
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
Our model’s value — refined as new sales data arrives · CGC census counts shown where available

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Full credits

writer, artist, inker, letterer Fletcher Hanks
cover pencils, inks Joe Simon

Reprints

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

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