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Issue: Tales of Suspense #56

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Publication Date: August 1964

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Issues: #56 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 05/12/1964

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Tales of Suspense #56 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #56 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Uncanny Unicorn!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Unicorn [Milos Masaryk]; Pepper Potts

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

The Uncanny Unicorn!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

First Line: I'm sick of being Iron Man!

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.

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Pages: 18

Job Number: X-716

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..!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Strange Tales; Tales To Astonish

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Pages: 1

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!

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Charlie Smith; Will

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

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Pages: 1

Job Number: G-542

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!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

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

First Line: A little imagination... that's all it takes for us to...

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

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-714