Tales of Suspense #56

(August 1964)

The Uncanny Unicorn! (Table of Contents)

Iron Man / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Job Number:

X-716

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Unicorn [Milos Masaryk] (introduction, origin); Happy Hogan; Pepper Potts; Avengers [Thor [Donalt Blake] (cameo); Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo); Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (cameo)]; Crimson Dynamo [Anton Vanko] (flashback)

Synopsis:

A Soviet agent with high-tech armor comes to the US to capture Iron Man. He kidnaps Pepper and injures Happy to draw Iron Man out, and then threatens to blow up Stark's factory unless Iron Man comes with him. Iron Man boards Unicorn's plane, but then destroys it, though the Unicorn escapes.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #14 (April 1968)
• 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)

Indexer Notes

Unicorn next appears in a cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (1965), before appearing in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966).

Two More Triumphs for Marvel..! (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Indexer Notes

Advertises Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #123 (August 1964) and Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #58 (August 1964). Printed between the pages of the Iron Man story.

Pouf! (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

G-542

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Charlie Smith; Will

Synopsis:

A boy stumbles across a secret disintegrating formula stolen from a government lab.

Reprinted:

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (September 1955) [page 2 originally titled "The Atomizer".]

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Printed between the Iron Man story and the Tales of the Watcher story. Continues from last issue.

The Watcher's Sacrifice! (Table of Contents)

Tales of the Watcher / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Larry Lieber

Inks:

George Roussos [as George Bell]

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

X-714

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Watcher [Uatu]; Queen Kalthea; Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards (cameo); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo)]

Synopsis:

The Watcher falls in love with a courageous alien queen, but his duty forces him to leave her.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #21 (June 1969)
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #61 (August 7, 1973) [as "Il sacrificio dell'Osservatore", Italian translation]