Comic Book: Tales of Suspense
What This Book is About:
Starting out as a monster book, this title made history when the invincible Iron Man was introduced in issue #39. At issue #60 Shellhead began splitting the book with Captain America in his first Silver Age series. This arrangement ran up until it hit #99 after which it was retitled CAPTAIN AMERICA with the next issue, and IRON MAN began his own title with issue #1!
Data Sheet:
Oct 1964 to Mar 1968
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Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Plus: Happy Hogan, Senator Byrd, Nazis, Titanium Man.
Comics Index
Page: 1 of 3
Total Indexed Comics:
61
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
April 1963"Iron Man is Born!"
Script: Larry LieberWealthy playboy industrialist Tony Stark has used the miracle of transistors to produce small, light, powerful weapons that can be easily carried through the jungles of Vietnam. While personally overseeing their first use in combat, he trips a boobytrap bomb. [...]
April 1963"Iron Man vs Gargantus!"
Script: Robert Bernsteinp { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
“Anthony Stark is a man who leads
three lives!” intones the narrator at the start of this second
adventure. The first Tony Stark is the engineering genius recognized
world-wide by scientists and the military (for whom he is building
rocket-powered roller skates!). [...]
May 1963"The Stronghold of Doctor Strange!"
Script: Robert Bernsteinp { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
Millionaire playboy Tony Stark attends
a charity dance for a hospital. He is called up on the stage where
the hostess announces that Tony’s gift of $100,000 will cover the
cost of the new wing. [...]
June 1963"Trapped by the Red Barbarian."
Script: Robert Bernsteinp { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
One night at an East Coast dock, a band
of Commie spies are loading a crate aboard their ship—a crate that
contains America’s latest atom bomb which they have stolen and plan
to deliver to their boss, the Red Barbarian. [...]
July 1963"Kala, Queen of the Netherworld!"
Script: Robert Bernsteinp { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
One day at Anthony Stark’s private
lab, the wind tunnel malfunctions and the machinery runs out of
control, creating hurricane-force winds inside the building. Security
notifies Tony who tells them Iron Man is visiting at just that
moment. [...]
August 1963"The Mad Pharaoh!"
Script: Robert Bernsteinp { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
Tony Stark goes to Egypt to help an
archeologist friend of his explore a newly-discovered pyramid. The
Professor wants Tony to create a device to help them locate the
burial chamber within, Tony suggests that Iron Man would be more
helpful. [...]
September 1963"The Icy Fingers of Jack Frost!"
Script: Robert Bernsteinp { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
One day near Indianapolis, police are
startled to see Iron Man zooming along on jet skates at 200 MPH. Tony
Stark is scheduled to drive in the 500 and he’s late because he had
to help the FBI catch a spy ring. [...]
October 1963"The Crimson Dynamo!"
Script: Robert Bernsteinp { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
As the story open, a crowd watches
aghast as Iron Man races to catch a sabotaged rocket as it plunges
toward the Earth. Why? For that we go back two weeks to the Soviet
Union…. [...]
November 1963"Iron Man Battles the Melter!"
Script: Stan Leep { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
At a US military base, Army tanks
collapse, their vital joints having melted mysteriously. When word
reaches Tony Stark, whose company built the tanks, he visits his lab
to investigate and is surprised by a villain called the Melter, who
knocks him unconscious. [...]
December 1963"The Mysterious Mr. Doll!"
Script: Stan Leep { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
Tony Stark is surprised when his major
steel supplier, Charleton Carter, suddenly cancels his contract with
Stark. Tony drives out to Carter’s cliffside castle (! [...]
January 1964"The New Iron Man Meets the Angel"
Script: Stan LeeIron Man is overseeing the test of an atomic weapon when the Angel appears overhead. Misunderstanding Shellheads warning, Angel flies too close to the explosion and is exposed to radiation which turns him evil. [...]
February 1964"The Hands of the Mandarin!"
Script: Stan Lee
In a remote area of China, the powerful
potentate known as the Mandarin receives a delegation of officers
from the Red Army at his castle stronghold. [...]
March 1964"The Sinister Scarecrow"
Script: Stan LeeOne day when Iron Man is flying through
the city on an unspecified mission, he spots a crook holding up the
box office of a theater. He pursues the hood into the theater where
and escape artist billed as the Uncanny Umberto is doing his act. [...]
April 1964"The Crimson Dynamo Strikes Again!"
Script: Don Rico
At Stark Industries’ main research
plant, Anton Vanko, the former Crimson Dynamo (see issue #46) dons
his electrified battle armor and enters his lab. [...]
May 1964"The Black Widow Strikes Again!"
Script: Don Rico
In his private lab, Tony Stark is
working on an anti-gravity device; it succeeds in lifting a heavy
piece of machinery into the air but Happy Hogan, entering at that
moment, thinks Tony’s life is in danger and pushes him out of the
way. [...]
June 1964"The Mandarin’s Revenge!"
Script: Stan Lee
Iron Man is flying around New York,
testing his new lighter helmet when he gets an urgent call from
Pepper Potts. Immediately he heads into the secret entrance to the
hidden tunnel and jet-skates his way back to the office, where he
changes into Tony Stark. [...]
July 1964"No One Escapes the Mandarin!"
Script: Stan Lee
As he is entangled in magnetized steel
cables and at the mercy of his enemy, the Mandarin, Iron Man tries a
bluff, reminding the villain that Tony Stark is still at large in the
castle. [...]
August 1964"The Uncanny Unicorn!"
Script: Stan Lee
Tony Stark, filled with rage and
frustration at being trapped in the Iron Man armor by his weakened
heart, throws a tantrum in his lab, destroying equipment with his
metal gauntlets. [...]
September 1964"Hawkeye, the Marksman!"
Script: Stan Lee
As the tale opens, Iron Man is rescuing
a Stark factory worker from a vat of molten steel. Afterwards, Happy
Hogan approaches the Armored Avenger and asks if Iron Man would ask
Tony Stark to persuade Pepper Potts to go on a date with him. [...]
October 1964"In Mortal Combat with Captain America!"
Script: Stan LeeKraven and the Chameleon sneak back into the United States vowing revenge (they were deported in Amazing Spider-Man #15). The arrogant Kraven decides to break into Stark’s factory and steal whatever he can for some easy money and is immediately captured by Iron Man. [...]
November 1964"The Black Knight!"
Script: Stan LeeWhile the other Avengers leave to participate in a charity fundraiser, Iron Man remains behind in case of an emergency. This proves to be a good idea as the Black Knight escapes prison (sent there in Avengers #6) and attack Stark’s factory. [...]
December 1964"Suspected of Murder!"
Script: Stan LeeTony Stark imagines himself as a miniature figure trapped in a glass tube by a huge menacing Iron Man. [...]
January 1965"The Death of Tony Stark!"
Script: Don RicoPepper Potts and Happy Hogan barge into Tony Stark’s office and hand Iron Man their letter of resignation. Tony has been "missing" for over a month and Iron Man seems to be unconcerned, as though he enjoys being in charge. They reveal their distrust of the so-called bodyguard and walk out. [...]
February 1965"The Origin of the Mandarin!"
Script: Don RicoCaptured by the Mandarin (last issue), the powerless Iron Man finds himself chained to a massive wheel, with the villain preparing to reveal the tale of his origin. [...]
March 1965"Somewhere Lurks the Phantom!"
Script: Stan LeeIron Man returns to Stark’s Long Island factory where he finds Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan still in a somber mood, believing that Tony Stark is dead (issue #61). [...]
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