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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published September 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in June 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements and is the first issue of Tales of Suspense without text pages. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Icy Fingers of Jack Frost"

Characters Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jack Frost [Gregor Shapanka]; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (Iron Man); Steve Ditko ?; Don Heck ?
Inks Don Heck
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Art credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006). Iron Man figure statted from splash page of the Iron Man story in issue #43 (July 1963).
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #8 (April 1967); 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)

18 page Iron Man story "The Icy Fingers of Jack Frost!"

Characters Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jack Frost [Gregor Shapanka] (introduction, origin, later called Blizzard); Happy Hogan (introduction); Pepper Potts (introduction)
Synopsis A washed up boxer saves Stark's life, and he hires him as a chauffeur. Meanwhile, a scientist fired by Stark creates a suit that gives him the power to freeze whatever is near him. He attacks Stark and Iron Man stops him.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script)
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Happy Hogan is based on pro wrestler-turned-actor Nat Pendleton; Pepper Potts is based on actress Ann B. Davis. [per Henry Kujawa]
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #8 (April 1967); 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)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Another Big One from Marvel!"

Synopsis Advertises the Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963). Printed between the pages of the Iron Man story.
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Marvel Comics Group Ushers in the Marvel Age of Comics!"

Synopsis Advertises Fantastic Four Annual (Marval, 1963 series) #1 (1963), Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963) and the launch of the X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series). Printed between the Iron Man story and the back-up story.
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers (Fantastic Four Annual); Unknown (Strange Tales Annual and X-Men)

5 page story "I Come From Far Centaurus!"

Characters Victor Farrington
Synopsis A greedy man is delighted when an alien shows that he will be rich, but he is sentenced to exile for fraud, and imprisoned on an asteroid where his money is useless.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks Matt Fox
Letters Artie Simek