Issue | #50 |
Published | February 1964 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements and is the second issue of Tales of Suspense without text pages. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mandarin |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | George Roussos |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |
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]; The Mandarin (villain, introduction); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Bill |
Synopsis | The Pentagon sends Iron Man into red China to get information on the Mandarin, an evil scientist feared even by the Communist regime. Iron Man struggles to overcome the Mandarin's powerful rings and martial arts, but he escapes his castle. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Letters | Ray Holloway |
Notes | In this story Pepper gets a makeover and is consequently redrawn as a more attractive woman. |
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) |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Advertises Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #9 (February 1964). Printed between the pages of the Iron Man story. |
Characters | Adam Bentley; Larry Lieber |
Synopsis | A man frantically tries to convince passersby that he is being chased by storybook characters. He is arrested by the police, but disappears from his jail cell, as he himself is a fictional character created by Larry Lieber. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | George Roussos [as G. Bell] |
Letters | Sam Rosen [as S. Rosen] |
Notes | Info from Stéphane Petit via the GCD Error Report (September 28, 2009). |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | George Roussos |
Notes | Advertises Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #23 (February 1964). |
Characters | Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Wilbur Weems; Sally |
Synopsis | A meek and lonely space pilot volunteers for a suicide mission to investigate a strange cosmic cloud. The cloud hides a utopian planet, whose inhabitants only want humans brave enough to face the unknown to visit them. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | Sol Brodsky |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | Lettering credit is from the reprint in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5.(Checked by Merlin Haas from that issue, October 1, 2009.) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #5 (October 1966); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #53 (April 3, 1973) [as "La fine del viaggio!", Italian translation] |