| Issue | #42 |
| Published | June 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 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]; Red Barbarian |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #5 (October 1966); 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]; Red Barbarian (only appearance); Actor (only appearance) |
| 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. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script) |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | E. Thomas |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #5; 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 | Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee |
| 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. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (October 1956) |
| Characters | Rodney; Smith |
| 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. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines, 1967 series) #5 (March 18, 1967) |
| Characters | Conrad Zeno |
| 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. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Matt Fox |
| Letters | Artie Simek |