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Issue: Tales of Suspense #47
Publication Date: November 1963
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Issues: #47 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/08/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newstands in August 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In16
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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The Mysterious Melter!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Melter [Bruno Horgan]
First Line: How can I fight a super-foe who has the power to melt my iron armor within seconds??!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 [Regular Edition] published November 2003
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 published ?
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #19 published June 1967
as The Mysterious Melter [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Tales of Suspense #47 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as Tales of Suspense #47 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Iron Man Battles the Melter!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Melter [Bruno Horgan] (introduction, origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan
First Line: How can a man of iron save himself from a supervillain with the power to melt iron??
Synopsis: A former competitor of Tony Stark becomes the Melter and sabotages one of his plants. Iron Man tries to defend it but must flee before the Melter. He defeats him by constructing an aluminum suit that he cannot melt.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 [Regular Edition] published November 2003
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagIron Man Epic Collection #1 [unnamed variant] published November 2014
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 published ?
In Content Item: FlagSpellbound #51 published January 1965
as Iron Man Battles the Melter! [Illustration on Cover, Front]Splash page used as cover.
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #10 published August 1967
as Iron Man Battles the Melter! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFakkelen og jernmannen #3/1968 published January 1968
as Jernmannen møter Smelteren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Iron Man Battles the Melter! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as Iron Man Battles the Melter! [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: X-448
Disclose Notes: Aluminum actually has a significantly lower melting point than iron.
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The Green Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Barney
First Line: It was a hot sticky summer night when I stopped in to Barney's for a cool beer before I went home.
Synopsis: A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #2 published April 1952
was The Green Man! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [A-189]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Shock!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Athena; Bimmus (extraterrestrials); Carl Collins
First Line: Once again we take you into the future for another gripping tale!
Synopsis: A radar operator turns off Earth's defenses when alien raiders offer him the most beautiful woman in the universe, but he finds out too late that she is only beautiful to them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as Shock! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This is a retelling of "The Coming of the Krills" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko from Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #8 (January 1962). Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

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