Fantasy Masterpieces 1966 #8 - reader copy - $6.00

Embittered when the Police Commissioner calls Torch afraid for not bringing in the Sub-Mariner as he promised, the Torch and Betty track down Namor and a battle royal begins that ends with the Fiery Fury being captured by Namor in an airless glass tube.

A scientist invents a growth serum intended to solve world hunger by enlarging vegetables. A tiny exotic lizard is accidentally soaked by the liquid and grows into a giant lizard that rampages across the country. They blast it into outer space and it drifts through space frozen, eventually landing on Earth to become the first dinosaur.

An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers. He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real.

The gorgons of myth were aliens and send an agent to modern Earth preceding an invasion. She cannot turn the first men she encounters to stone, but since she doesn't know that they're blind the invasion is cancelled.

Cap has to battle the evil intentions of a man who uses a domestic employment agency as a blind in order to get his Nazi agents into the homes of anti-Nazi Senators in order to kill them.

On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• - Main Torch and Sub-Mariner illustration taken from the cover of Marvel Mystery # 9. Cap figure taken from the cover of Tales of Suspense # 63. Other vignettes taken from interior panels.
• - Inside front cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by John Verpoorten. Credits include Stan Lee, Sol Brodsky, Roy Thomas, Flo Steinberg, Stan Goldberg, Morrie Kuramoto and John Verpoorten.
• I Saw Droom the Living Lizard! - Narrated in the first person. A revised version of Droom appears next in Fantastic Four / Iron Man: Big in Japan (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
• A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, All Portending Practically Nothing! - Items, The Wrap-Up!, Here's a Brand New List of Marvel TV Stations Which We Know You'll Wanna Memorize by Heart!, Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
• Death Plays the Scales!! - The original title of this story was "Horror Plays the Scales".