(August 1966)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-05-03
- 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
On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Power of Iron Man!
Namor the Sub-Mariner / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]
- Reprints
-
in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #13 (8 July 1967) -
in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #77 (18 de noviembre de 1967) -
in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #37 (July 1973) which is reprinted - in The Incredible Hulk Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) [1/4 page]
- in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 ([February] 1999) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (April 2002)
- in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #2 ([December] 2004) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 2003 series) #3 ([January] 2006)
- in The Incredible Hulk Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in Essential Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 (2009) [black and white]
- in Incredible Hulk Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #2 - The Hulk Must Die (2017)
- in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 [Second Edition] (2023)
- in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 2021 series) #3 - Less than Monster, More than Man (2023)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Tales to Astonish (1959 series) #82 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1437/w100/1437237.jpg?-5779635254686611946)
The Power of Iron Man!
Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited as Smilin' Stan) (plot); Roy Thomas (credited as Rascally Roy) (script)
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (credited as Gallant Gene) (pages 1-2, begun); Jack Kirby (credited as King Kirby) (pages 3-12, finished)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (credited as Darling Dick)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited as Adorable Arthur (Who??))
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I have returned, helpless one!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Logan
- Synopsis
- Namor and Iron Man beat up on each other. Namor abandons the battle when he spots the battle cruiser of Krang floating on the water nearby.
- Reprints
- in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #13 (8 July 1967) [retitled], #14 (15 July 1967)
- in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #77 (18 de noviembre de 1967)
- in Iron Man Special (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (August 1970)
- in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #37 (July 1973) which is reprinted
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (April 2002) [The removal of the "Adorable Arthur" credit and the changes in the artwork, all indicate that the reprint was not from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #82 (August 1966) as indicated but from Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 Series) #37 (July 1973).]
-
in Die Spinne (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #11 ([Juni] 1974) - in Spider-Man Comics Weekly (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #113 (12 April 1975) [Pages 1-5, 8-12]
- in Marvel's Greatest Superhero Battles (Simon and Schuster, 1978 series) (1978)
-
in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #166 (5 octobre 1983) - in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #2 ([December] 2004) [black and white]
- in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in Essential Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 (2009) [black and white]
- in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 [Second Edition] (2023)
-
- Keywords
- magno-volt projector
Indexer Notes
Continued from Iron Man story in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #80 (August 1966).
According to the credits, Kirby completed the artwork on this story after Colan caught the flu bug.
Items of Lasting Insignificance from the Four Corners of Marveldom!
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
The Battle Cry of the Boomerang!
Hulk / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited) (layouts); Bill Everett (credited)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lying atop an ultra-powerful matter transmitter, far below the surface of Earth, in the...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Thunderbolt Ross; Glenn Talbot; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Boomerang [Fred Myers] (villain); Secret Empire (villains)
- Synopsis
- The Hulk saves Betty from Boomerang and in so doing thwarts the initial plans of the Secret Empire in stealing the secret of the deadly Orion missile.
- Reprints
- in Hulk (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #27
- in Smash! (IPC, 1966 series) #74 (1 July 1967)
- in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #77 (18 de noviembre de 1967)
-
in X-Mannen Classics (Classics/Williams, 1971 series) #21 (1973) - in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #34 (May 26, 1973)
- in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #37 (July 1973)
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #38 (novembre 1974) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
in Hulk pocket (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1979 series) #1 -
in Hulk Pocket [Hulk Superseriepocket] (Atlantic Forlag, 1979 series) #1 (1979) [minus 1 page] - in Der unglaubliche Hulk (Condor, 1980 series) #1
- in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #1 (mai 1982)
- in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 ([February] 1999) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 2003 series) #3 ([January] 2006)
- in The Incredible Hulk Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in Incredible Hulk Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #2 - The Hulk Must Die (2017)
- in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 2021 series) #3 - Less than Monster, More than Man (2023)
-
[no title indexed]
Mails to Astonish / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stan, I wish to thank you for moments of lucidity in the chaos that is the...
- Characters
- Thing [Ben Grimm]
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters from Midge McRae, Dexter Musgrove, Gregg Robinson, and Tom Maves; M.M.M.S. membership order form.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Power of Iron Man!
Namor the Sub-Mariner -
1.
The Power of Iron Man!
Namor the Sub-Mariner -
2.
Items of Lasting Insignificance from the Four Corners of Marveldom!
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
3.
The Battle Cry of the Boomerang!
Hulk -
4.
["Dear Stan, I wish to thank you for moments of lucidity in the chaos that is the..."]
Mails to Astonish
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
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- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Mike Nielsen
- Alan Smith
- Jim Van Dore
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