Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "The Mandarin!"

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)

13 page Iron Man story "The Hands of the Mandarin!"

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)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Another Marvel Masterpiece"

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.

5 page story "Them!"

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).

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Another Marvel Masterpiece"

Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	George Roussos
Notes	Advertises Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #23 (February 1964).

5 page Tales of the Watcher story "Journey's End!"

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]