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: Senator Byrd, Nazis.
Comics Index
Page: 2 of 4
Total Indexed Comics:
99
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
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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. [...]
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