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Issue: Tales of Suspense #48
Publication Date: December 1963
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Issues: #48 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: 09/10/1963
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):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in September 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In19
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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See the New Iron Man!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Iron Man is defeated!!
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: FlagFantastic! #9 published April 1967
as The Mysterious Mr. Doll [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Tales of Suspense #48 [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 #48 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #61 published ?
as See the New Iron Man! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mysterious Mr. Doll!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Charleton Carter (introduction); Bill
First Line: I warned you, Iron Man!!
Synopsis: Mister Doll uses magic dolls to take over whole companies. Iron Man stops him with the help of a new suit of armor. In the process Tony enrages Pepper by toying with her affections to create a diversion.
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 Tales Annual #1 published September 1964
as How Iron Man Created His New Thinner Uniform! [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 6: panels 8–9, page 7: panels 1–2, pages 8–10, reformatted
In Content Item: FlagTerrific! #1 published April 1967
as Iron Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]excerpt only
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #10 published April 1967
as The Mysterious Mr. Doll! (Part 2) [Story on Interior Page(s)]Black and white, pages 11-18 only, with additional recap page.
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #9 published April 1967
as The Mysterious Mr. Doll! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Black and white, pages 1-10 only.
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as The Mysterious Mr. Doll! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as The Mysterious Mr. Doll! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko #[nn] published January 2005
as The Mysterious Mr. Doll! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: [X-496]
Disclose Notes: Iron Man gets his new, modern-looking red and gold armor designed by Steve Ditko.

Mister Doll was originally named Mister Pain, a change noticeable in the lettering and confirmed in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1. It was presumably changed to meet the restrictions of the Comics Code. (Note added by Haydn via the GCD Error Tracker.)

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo.
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The Pact

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil [Uninvited Guest]; Branders Conrad
First Line: The tall, young man sat at his desk and stared steadily at the sheet of paper in his typewriter.
Synopsis: A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #2 published August 1952
was The Pact [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [9734]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Kraddak

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hans Hartog; Kraddak
First Line: It has been written that no man can escape his fate!
Synopsis: An alien tells a greedy mine owner that he will be killed in a fall. The mine owner hides at the lowest possible point in his mine, but is killed in a cave-in.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Kraddak [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This is a retelling of "The Man Who Fell!" drawn by Paul Reinman in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #85 (June 1961).

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