Tales of Suspense #44

(August 1963)

The Mad Pharoah! (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

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

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Job Number:

X-229

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mad Pharoah [Hatap] (introduction); Cleopatra VII; Paul (archeologist)

Synopsis:

After waking up from a 2000 years long sleep, Hatap, the Mad Pharoah, brings Tony Stark in the past to resume his war against Cleopatra. Stark helps Cleopatra defeat Hatap as Iron Man.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #7 (February 1967)
• in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #8 (8 April 1967) [Black and white.]
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20 ([October] 1992)
• in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (November 2000) [black and white]
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 [Regular Edition] ([November] 2003)
• in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (March 2010, TPB)

The Tree (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

K-435

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Wally Hadley

Synopsis:

When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.

Reprints:

• from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #11 (October 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

One of Us Must Die! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Larry Lieber

Inks:

Paul Reinman

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

X-312

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Darius Wentworth

Synopsis:

When a space passenger yacht is damaged, one of the passengers must be sacrificed for the others to survive. The captain lies in order to discover which is the most selfish and trick that person into making the sacrifice.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Perhaps with an oxygen shortage the captain shouldn't be smoking a pipe.

I Come From the Sky! (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-313

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Serge Plotski

Synopsis:

A communist agent in Africa is supplying guns and explosives to tribesmen to encourage uprisings. When flying his plane to another group, he gets struck by lightning and ditches his plane near an unknown tribe. These natives are like the ones in King Kong who have built a huge wall to keep out some horrible beast. The agent uses his lighter and last bullet to convince them he is a sky-god, but they deposit him outside the wall, alone and unarmed, with instructions to use his divine powers to defeat their huge beast.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012)