Tales of Suspense #42

(June 1963)

Trapped by the Red Barbarian (Table of Contents)

Iron Man / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script)

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

E. Thomas

Job Number:

X-187

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Red Barbarian; 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.

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)

Discovery (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

[K-479]

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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.

Reprinted:

• from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (October 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

I Speak of the Haunted House! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

X-181

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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.

Reprinted:

• in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines, 1967 series) #5 (March 18, 1967)

Escape into Space (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Larry Lieber

Inks:

Matt Fox

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

X-188

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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.