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Issue: Tales of Suspense #39

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Publication Date: March 1963

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Issues: #39 of 99 Issues (172 Printings)

Title:

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: (not set)

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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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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2 Tales of Suspense #39 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #39 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Iron Man!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Who? Who? Who?

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Pages: 1

Iron Man Is Born!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Watch his awesome approach! Listen to his ponderous footsteps as he lumbers closer... closer... for today you are destined to encounter-- the Invincible Iron Man!!

Synopsis: Playboy industrialist and weapons designer Tony Stark is injured in Vietnam and captured by communists. While pretending to build a weapon for his captors he builds a suit of battle armor to keep his injured heart beating and uses it to escape and beat the communist commander.

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Pages: 13

Job Number: X-51

Notes: This is the first Iron Man story.

The Treasure

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish (dog)

First Line: Tommy's scrawny yellow pup was a wishing dog.

Synopsis: A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [G-980]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Last Rocket!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Adam; Eve

First Line: Don't be fools!

Synopsis: When the sun starts dieing humanity goes into space, except for two nature lovers. Just as the last rocket leaves a new sun flares to life, and the two remaining humans, Adam and Eve, rename the planet Earth.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-52

Notes: This is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958).

Gundar!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Gundar

First Line: Take one lone man, shipwrecked on a strange isle...

Synopsis: A shipwrecked man finds cursed viking ghosts on an island, and his descent from the captain that cursed them releases them.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-53