Fantasy Masterpieces 1966 #3 - reader copy - $9.00

Death and terror lurk behind the scenes of a Hollywood movie set as Cap and Bucky hunt a hunchback madman, whose bloody hand seeks to stop the grinding cameras from filming the truth for a liberty loving public.

A criminal being brought to prison from a jungle outpost escapes into the jungle. He happens upon a tribe worshipping a gold idol and steals it. He escapes his pursuers, but realizes that the idol is cursed: he can never put it down.

Americans flee Uranus due to ferocious wildlife. The Soviets take the opportunity to land their own expedition, but because they ignore the American warnings they do not realize that the sheep-like creatures in the mountains are the deadly Uboongi.

An often bullied scientist accidentally transforms himself into a monster, and is attacked when he can?t make himself understood. In his new form he discovers that the girl he?d thought out of his league really loves him, and manages to make himself human again.

A scientist builds a time machine and discovers that time is a loop with all events repeating themselves endlessly for eternity.

Laughing at law and order, the Butterfly loots a museum of its priceless treasures until Captain America and Bucky steps in to clip his wings.

On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• - New cover artwork by Kirby/Giacoia (Captain America figure); other scenes taken from interior stories.
• Another Bullpen Blockbuster! - Inside from cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by Marie Severin. Credits include Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, Marie Severin, Stan Goldberg, Flo Steinberg and Dennis O' Neil.
• I Am the Prisoner of the Voodoo King! - Narrated in the first person.
• Bruttu - Narrated in the first person.
• I Saw the End of the World! - Narrated in the first person.
• The Weird Case of the Plundering Butterfly and the Ancient Mummies! - Originally titled "The Queer Case of The Murdering Butterfly and the Ancient Mummies". Title changed from original to conform to Comics Code restrictions, along with some art alterations, likely by Marie Severin.