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Issue: Tales of Suspense #42
Publication Date: June 1963
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Issues: #42 of 99 Issues (172 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: 03/12/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date is the publication date reported in U.S. Copyright Office filings.
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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 In19
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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...
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2003
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 published January 2010
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Tales of Suspense #42 [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 #42 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
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Trapped by the Red Barbarian

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2003
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 published January 2010
In Issue: FlagIron Man Epic Collection #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2014
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #5 published October 1966
as Trapped by the Red Barbarian [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #6 published March 1967
as Trapped By The Barbarian [part 2] [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprints the second half of this story, page 8 (panels 1 to 5 & 7) and pages 9 to 13. Black and white.
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #5 published March 1967
as Iron Man Trapped By The Barbarian [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1, pages 1 to 7 only
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Trapped by the Red Barbarian [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as Trapped by the Red Barbarian [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-187
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Discovery

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, 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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #54 published October 1956
was Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [K-479]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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I Speak of the Haunted House!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #5 published March 1967
as The Haunted House [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as I Speak of the Haunted House! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-181
Disclose Notes: Plot is similar to the Maneely story "I Was Locked in a... Haunted House!", in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #7.
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Escape into Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPow! Annual #1970 published January 1969
as Escape Into Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Escape into Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-188

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