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Issue: Tales of Suspense #43
Publication Date: July 1963
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Issues: #43 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/09/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newsstands in April 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In17
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Kala, Queen of the Netherworld!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Kala; Jim; Evans
First Line: Either betray your world, Iron Man, or I will slay your friends!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 [Regular Edition] published November 2003
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 published ?
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #7 published April 1967
as Kala, Queen of the Netherworld! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Tales of Suspense #43 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as Tales of Suspense #43 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Kala, Queen of the Netherworld!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Kala (introduction); General Baxu (introduction); Jim; Evans
First Line: Entering our Netherworld was the mistake of your life, Iron Man!
Synopsis: Stark is abducted by the queen of an underground kingdom to help her invade the surface. As Iron Man, Stark shows her that she would rapidly age on the surface, convincing her to call off the invasion.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 [Regular Edition] published November 2003
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagIron Man Epic Collection #1 [unnamed variant] published November 2014
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 published ?
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #6 published December 1966
as Iron Man Versus Kala, Queen of the Netherworld! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #7 published April 1967
as Kala, Queen of the Netherworld! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Iron Man versus Kala, Queen of the Netherworld! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as Iron Man Versus Kala, Queen of the Netherworld! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-216
Disclose Notes: Kala next appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #127 (October 1972).
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The Journey

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harry; Al
First Line: It didn't take much for Harry to turn blue.
Synopsis: A man finds out that he keeps turning blue because he is really an alien from a planet of blue people.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #24 published May 1955
was The Journey [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [F-890]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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You Can't Change the Past!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Simon Stanley; Jukes
First Line: He told me that I must never dare go into the past, but I thought he was a fool!
Synopsis: A scientist creates a time machine just to prove that it can be done, but never plans to use it, since he knows that it would be too dangerous to attempt to alter the past. His assistant, however, is envious of the fame such a journey would bring and so clouts the scientist on the jaw and takes off in the machine, only to find himself stuck in the past rendered insubstantial by fate like a ghost unable to affect anything.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #112 published January 1975
as You Can't Change the Past! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as You Can't Change the Past! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-218
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I Was A Victim of Venus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Tom Foral
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dirk Morgan; Siblus Sladd
First Line: The year is 2005 and by now interplanetary hops are pretty routine!
Synopsis: A criminal steals a valuable diamond from Venus, but it is irradiated and makes him sick. He needs to steal the money to pay a doctor, but when he choses a target at random he kills the only doctor who could cure him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as I Was a Victim of Venus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-217
Disclose Notes: Set in 2005.

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