| Issue | #51 |
| Published | March 1964 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in December 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]; Scarecrow |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | George Roussos |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Notes | Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #11 (October 1967); in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2004); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) |
| Characters | Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarecrow [Ebenezer Laughton, stage name "Uncanny Umberto"] (introduction, origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Veronica Vogue |
| Synopsis | A contortionist becomes the Scarecrow and steals some plans from Tony Stark to sell them to Cuba. Iron Man follows the Scarecrow and steals back the plans. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Scarecrow next appears in a cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 (1965) before appearing in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966). |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #11 (October 1967); in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2004); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) |
| Characters | Josie |
| Synopsis | A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956) |
| Synopsis | A psychic alien plant lands on Earth and torments a human to prove its power, but it is eaten by a crow. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot), Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Matt Fox |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #21 (January 1973); in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #24 (July 1973) [as "La chose verte!", French translation] |
| Characters | Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Vince Harding; Paul Harding |
| Synopsis | A space explorer finally gives up his quest to find a more advanced species, not knowing that the primitives he found were more advanced, until they invented the cobalt bomb. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | George Roussos [as G. Bell] |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #19 (February 1969); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #54 (April 30, 1973) [as "Il primitivo!", Italian translation] |