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Issue: Tales of Suspense #42

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Publication Date: June 1963

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Issues: #42 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 03/12/1963

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newsstands in March 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

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Format

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

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Tales of Suspense #42 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #42 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Red Barbarian

First Line: Iron Man, you've blundered into the Red Barbarian's Trap! This...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

Trapped by the Red Barbarian

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Gregori; Vukov; The Red Barbarian (introduction); The Actor [Sir Reginald] (introduction)

First Line: Iron Man you dare to come here... where doom awaits you?

Synopsis: A Soviet spymaster sends a master of disguise to steal the design of Tony Stark's latest weapon. The Actor steals the plans and learns Iron Man's secret identity, but Iron Man regains the plans and tricks the communists into killing their own agent.

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Pages: 13

Job Number: X-187

Discovery

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee

First Line: Before Chauncey set out for the Hotchkiss Fair, he took his...

Synopsis: A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [K-479]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

I Speak of the Haunted House!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Rodney; Smith

First Line: Like haunted house stories??

Synopsis: Two friends make a bet about the existence of ghosts in a haunted house. The doubting friend thinks he saw no ghosts, but the house itself is a ghost.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-181

Escape into Space

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Conrad Zeno

First Line: There goes the law!

Synopsis: A convict believes that he escaped his captors on a strange planet, but the plan all along was for him to serve his sentence there, thinking that he is free.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-188