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Issue: Tales of Suspense #51
Publication Date: March 1964
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Issues: #51 of 99 Issues (172 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/09/1963
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 as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1963, page 420, registration number B79627.
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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 In13
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The Scarecrow!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarecrow
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #2 [Regular Edition] published May 2005
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as Tales of Suspense #51 [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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The Sinister Scarecrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarecrow [Ebenezer Laughton, stage name "Uncanny Umberto"] (introduction, origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Veronica Vogue
First Line: Well, well!
Synopsis: A contortionist becomes the Scarecrow and steals some plans from Tony Stark to sell them to Cuba. Iron Man follows the Scarecrow and steals back the plans.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #2 [Regular Edition] published May 2005
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagIron Man Epic Collection #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2014
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #11 published October 1967
as The Sinister Scarecrow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as The Sinister Scarecrow [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: [X-581]
Disclose Notes: Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo.

Scarecrow next appears in a cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (1965) before appearing in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966).
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The Recipe

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Josie; Miss White; Whiskers (cat)
First Line: Josie was a tomboy.
Synopsis: A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #150 published September 1956
was The Recipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-338
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Green Thing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Fernusans (extraterrestrials); unnamed farmer
First Line: If you look at this man, you'll see nothing unusual about him!
Synopsis: A psychic alien plant lands on Earth and torments a human to prove its power, but it is eaten by a crow.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #21 published January 1973
as The Green Thing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #24 published July 1973
as La chose verte ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]N&B [B&W]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Green Thing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-564
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The Primitive!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Vince Harding; Paul Harding
First Line: On another world, light years from our Earth, there stands a strange structure...
Synopsis: A space explorer finally gives up his quest to find a more advanced species, not knowing that the primitives he found were more advanced, until they invented the cobalt bomb.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #19 published February 1969
as The Primitive! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #54 published April 1973
as Il primitivo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Il primitivo!", Italian translation
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-548
Disclose Notes: Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1254829

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