British Update: Free Gift Farrago: Fantastic #1 & #3, Terrific #2 & #3 with Full or Partial Free Gifts
*Power Comics: 1967 was the year of expansion for the upstart Power Comics Group; having established Wham and Smash! as more traditional comics weeklies with eventually a smattering of US material, they cashed in on the super-hero craze of the 60s by launching Fantastic #1, reprinting sequential stories of Iron Man, Thor and the X-Men, with a small percentage of UK-originated stories in the back. This was followed in April that year by Terrific in the same format, with Doctor Strange, Sub-Mariner and the Avengers. Our newest early issues of Fantastic and Terrific, however, bear the distinction of the original Free Gifts that accompanied them. Fantastic #1 is in FN with the Fantastic Plastic Pennant – a small banner with a clear pocket into which you could insert one of several cut-outs to demonstrate your affiliation for a particular hero. Issue #2 comes without, alas, the Fantastic Bubblegum advertised, but does have the original envelope said gum came in. Turning to Terrific, #2 Iron Man’s Missile Launcher, a.k.a. a cardboard crossbow, but without the ‘cross’ bar: and Terrific #3 has a complete Astro-Dart Launcher. Fantastic #1 is FN with free gift VG at £100, #3 is FN with partial Free Gift VG at £40. Terrific #2 is FN with Partial Free Gift GD at £40; #3 is FN with Free Gift VG at £75. SORRY, FANTASTICS & TERRIFIC #3 NOW SOLD