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Issue: Tales of Suspense #48

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Publication Date: December 1963

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Issues: #48 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: 09/10/1963

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)
4 (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 #48 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #48 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (4 total)

See the New Iron Man!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mister Doll [Nathan Dolly]

First Line: Iron Man is defeated!!

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Pages: 1

The Mysterious Mr. Doll!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mister Doll [Nathan Dolly] (introduction, origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Charleton Carter (introduction); Bill

First Line: I warned you, Iron Man!!

Synopsis: Mister Doll uses magic dolls to take over whole companies. Iron Man stops him with the help of a new suit of armor. In the process Tony enrages Pepper by toying with her affections to create a diversion.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 18

Job Number: [X-496]

Notes: Iron Man gets his new, modern-looking red and gold armor designed by Steve Ditko.

Mister Doll was originally named Mister Pain, a change noticeable in the lettering and confirmed in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1. It was presumably changed to meet the restrictions of the Comics Code. (Note added by Haydn via the GCD Error Tracker.)

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo.

The Pact

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Maneely [as M.]

Inker(s): Joe Maneely [as M.]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil [Uninvited Guest]; Branders Conrad

First Line: The tall, young man sat at his desk and stared steadily at the sheet of paper in his typewriter.

Synopsis: A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [9734]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Kraddak

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Hans Hartog; Kraddak

First Line: It has been written that no man can escape his fate!

Synopsis: An alien tells a greedy mine owner that he will be killed in a fall. The mine owner hides at the lowest possible point in his mine, but is killed in a cave-in.

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Pages: 5

Notes: This is a retelling of "The Man Who Fell!" drawn by Paul Reinman in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #85 (June 1961).