Tales of Suspense
#47
[UK cover price]
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
The Mysterious Melter!
Iron Man / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- George Roussos
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Melter [Bruno Horgan]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fantastic! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #19 (24 June 1967)
- in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #10 (August 1967) [cover]
- 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 (2003)
- in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (March 2010, TPB)
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers.
Iron Man Battles the Melter!
Iron Man / comic story / 18 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number:
- X-448
Content Information
- 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: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #10 (August 1967)
- in Fakkelen og jernmannen (Se-Bladene, 1968 series) #3/1968 (1968)
- 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 (2003)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (March 2010, TPB)
Indexer Notes
Aluminum actually has a significantly lower melting point than iron.
The Green Man
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- [A-189]
Content Information
- 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: show reprint note before migration
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (April 1952)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Shock!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Larry Lieber
- Inks:
- George Roussos [as G. Bell]
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- 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.
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
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Stephane Poitras
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Klein
- Martin O'Hearn
- Tony R. Rose
- Robert Wood
- Ramon Schenk
- Henry R. Kujawa
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