Issue | #49 |
Published | January 1964 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in October 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Angel [Warren Worthington III] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20 (1992); in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) |
Characters | Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Happy Hogan; Pepper Potts; Professor X [Charles Xavier]; X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers] (cameo); Beast [Hank McCoy] (cameo); Iceman [Bobby Drake] (cameo); Marvel Girl [Jean Grey] (cameo); The Avengers [Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo); Thor [Don Blake] (cameo); Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (cameo); The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (cameo)] |
Synopsis | The Angel is affected by an atomic test done at one of Stark's weapons plant. his personality is altered and now he wants to join the Evil Mutants. The X-Men call the Avengers for help but only Iron Man is available. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Reprinted | in Giant-Size Iron Man (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (October 1975); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20 (1992); in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008) #21 (2008) |
Characters | Andre Corday |
Synopsis | An American tourist in Paris is unwittingly targeted by a spy as an intelligence courier and is nearly killed. |
Genre | spy |
Pencils | Joe Maneely |
Inks | Joe Maneely |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Spy Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #4 (May 1955) |
Characters | Watcher [Uatu] (narrator) |
Synopsis | An alien race watches humanity's progress, worried that they will one day overtake them. With the invention of the atomic bomb and the Cold War, they decide that humanity will wipe itself out before it poses a threat. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | George Roussos [as G. Bell] |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Notes | This is the first Tales of the Watcher story in Tales of Suspense. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #3 (June 1966); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #52 (March 20, 1973) [as "La saga degli Sneepers!", Italian translation] |