(November 1963)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1963-08-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date is the publication date reported in U.S. Copyright Office filings.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
The Mysterious Melter!
Iron Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How can I fight a super-foe who has the power to melt my iron armor within seconds??!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Melter [Bruno Horgan]
- Reprints
-
in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #9 -
in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #19 (24 June 1967) -
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] (2003)
- in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008), #1 (2008)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010)
- in Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (Marvel, 2014 series) #8 - The Invincible Iron Man
-
in Biblioteca Marvel (Panini España, 2022 series) #6 - El Invencible Iron Man 1 ([Febrero 2023]) - in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 [Second Edition] (2023)
- in Marvel Origins (Hachette [DE], 2023 series) #13 - Iron Man 2 (1963) ([Februar 2024])
-
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers.
![Cover Thumbnail for Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #47 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/852/w100/852865.jpg?-7952538501859003009)
Iron Man Battles the Melter!
Iron Man / comic story / 18 pages
- Job Number
- X-448
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How can a man of iron save himself from a supervillain with the power to melt iron??
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Melter [Bruno Horgan] (introduction, origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan
- Synopsis
- A former competitor of Tony Stark becomes the Melter and sabotages one of his plants. Iron Man tries to defend it but must flee before the Melter. He defeats him by constructing an aluminum suit that he cannot melt.
- Reprints
- in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #9
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #51 (1965) [Splash page used as cover.], #51 (1965)
- in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #19 (24 June 1967), #20 (1 July 1967) [Pages 11 to 18 only, black and white. ]
- in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #10 (August 1967)
-
in Fakkelen og Jernmannen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1968 series) #3/1968 (1968) - in Spider-Man Comics Weekly (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #64 (4 May 1974), #65 (11 May 1974)
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20 ([October] 1992)
- in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (November 2000) [in black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 [Regular Edition] (2003)
- in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008), #1 (2008)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010)
- in Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (Marvel, 2014 series) #8 - The Invincible Iron Man
- in Iron Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 - The Golden Avenger (2014)
- in Biblioteca Marvel (Panini España, 2022 series) #6 - El Invencible Iron Man 1 ([Febrero 2023])
- in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 [Second Edition] (2023)
- in Marvel Origins (Hachette [DE], 2023 series) #13 - Iron Man 2 (1963) ([Februar 2024])
-
Indexer Notes
Aluminum actually has a significantly lower melting point than iron.
The Green Man
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- [A-189]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was a hot sticky summer night when I stopped in to Barney's for a cool beer before I went home.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Barney
- Synopsis
- A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it.
- Reprints
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (April 1952)
-
- Keywords
- Typra (planet); XL-70 (plane)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Shock!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Larry Lieber
- Inks
- George Roussos
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once again we take you into the future for another gripping tale!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Athena; Bimmus (extraterrestrials); Carl Collins
- Synopsis
- A radar operator turns off Earth's defenses when alien raiders offer him the most beautiful woman in the universe, but he finds out too late that she is only beautiful to them.
- Reprints
- in Die Gruft von Graf Dracula (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #31
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #43 (1964)
-
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #64 (4ème trimestre 1978) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
This is a retelling of "The Coming of the Krills" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko from Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #8 (January 1962). Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Mysterious Melter!
Iron Man -
1.
Iron Man Battles the Melter!
Iron Man -
2.
The Green Man
-
3.
Shock!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Pierre Freyssonnet
- Del Gruber
- Ethan Hoddes
- R. S. Martin
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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