Tales of Suspense #82

(October 1966)

By Force of Arms! (Table of Contents: 1)

Iron Man / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Gene Colan (credited)

Inks

Frank Giacoia (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Titanium Man!

Feature Logo

The Invincible Iron Man

Genre

superhero

Characters

Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Titanium Man [Boris Bullski]; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Senator Harrington Byrd

Synopsis

Iron Man battles Titanium Man in the skies above Washington D.C. A large crowd gathers to watch them fight. Pepper and Happy are among the onlookers. Titanium Man fixes Iron Man with a paralysis beam. Iron Man short circuits the electric beam by pulling out a live wire from his armor! Titanium Man then turns his beam on Pepper and orders Iron Man to surrender.

Reprints

• in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #109 (20 de julio de 1968)
• in Iron Man Special (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (November 1971)
• in Spider-Man Comics Weekly (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #115 (26 April 1975)
• in Die ruhmreichen Rächer (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #91 ([Juli 1978])
• 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 Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #3 (2014)
• in Iron Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #2 - By Force of Arms (2017)
• in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 [Second Edition] (2023)

Keywords

Washington D.C.

Newsworthy Notes and Nutty Nonsense from Your Friendly Neighborhood Bullpen! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

The Maddening Mystery of the Inconceivable Adaptoid! (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain America / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited)

Inks

Frank Giacoia (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Study this scene well, Marvelite...

Feature Logo

Captain America, Living Legend of World War II

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Adaptoid (Introduction); Count Bornag Royale; Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes]; Avengers [Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]]; Edwin Jarvis; A.I.M.

Synopsis

The Adaptoid escapes from his AIM creators and invades Avengers Mansion to attack Cap.

Reprints

• in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #109 (20 de julio de 1968)
• in Marvel Double Feature (Marvel, 1973 series) #6 (October 1974) [edited; with 1 page omitted]
• in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #53 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Almanaque do Capitão América (Editora Abril, 1981 series) #65 (Outubro 1984) [The Maddening Mystery of the Inconceivable Adaptoid!]
• in Essential Captain America (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (July 2000) [black and white]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Captain America (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 ([June] 2005)
• in Captain America Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (2011)
• in Marvel Gold. Capitán América (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 - La leyenda Viviente (Julio 2011)
• in Captain America Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 - Captain America Lives Again (2014)
• in True Believers: Annihilation - Super-Adaptoid (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (February 2020)
• in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Captain America (Marvel, 2022 series) #2 - The Red Skull Lives! (2023)
• When reprinted in Marvel Double Feature #6, the following changes are made:
  Page 6, panels 4 and 6 are not reprinted.
  Page 7, panels 1-4 are not reprinted.
  Page 7, panels 5 and 6 are moved to the bottom of page 6.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Mails of Suspense / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas ?

Pencils

Gene Colan; ?

Inks

Jack Abel; ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• in Captain America Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (2011)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Sterling Evans, Raun Nelson, Timothy Kuhn, James Taylor, and Bill Todd; includes an ad for the M.M.M.S. and an image from an earlier issue.