KID'S KLASSIC KOMIC KOVERS - FANTASTIC #89...

Image copyright MARVEL COMICS

You're looking at the end of an era - the very last issue of

FANTASTIC, published in October 1968.  A week later, the

name appeared in tiny form as part of the masthead of SMASH!,

which 'incorporated' its former sister publication from that point

on.  Around five months later, Smash! was revamped and the re-

maining Marvel content vanished - along with the name Fantastic

from the cover.  Short-lived it may have been, but the comic

had certainly lived up to its name.

(Incidentally, that's not the real MANDARIN on the

cover - it's JIMMY HILL done up to look like him.)

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