| Issue | #48 |
| Published | December 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 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]; Mister Doll [Nathan Dolly] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. 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); Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) |
| Characters | Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mister Doll (introduction, origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Charleston Carter (introduction) |
| Synopsis | Mister Doll uses magic dolls to take over whole companies. Iron Man stops him with the help of a new suit of armor. In the process Tony enrages Pepper by toying with her affections to create a diversion. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Notes | Iron Man gets his new, more modern-looking, red and gold armor. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 [p6: panels 8–9, p7: panels 1–2, pp8–10, reformatted as "How Iron Man Created His New Thinner Uniform!"]; 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 | Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil |
| Synopsis | A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (August 1952) |
| Characters | Hans Hartog; Kraddak |
| Synopsis | An alien tells a greedy mine owner that he will be killed in a fall. The mine owner hides at the lowest possible point in his mine, but is killed in a cave-in. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | George Roussos [as G. Bell] |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | This is a retelling of "The Man Who Fell!" drawn by Paul Reinman in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #85 (June 1961). |