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Issue: Tales of Suspense #44
Publication Date: August 1963
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Issues: #44 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: 05/09/1963
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 May 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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The Mad Pharoah!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Cleopatra VII
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: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Tales of Suspense #44 [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 #44 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #68 published ?
as The Mad Pharoah! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The unaltered version of this cover was used on Creepy Worlds #68.

Pharaoh misspelled as "pharoah" on the cover (and throughout the story).
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The Mad Pharoah!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mad Pharoah [sic] [Hatap] (introduction); Cleopatra VII; Paul (archeologist)
First Line: This is incredible!
Synopsis: After waking up from a 2000 years long sleep, Hatap, the Mad Pharoah [sic], brings Tony Stark in the past to resume his war against Cleopatra. Stark helps Cleopatra defeat Hatap as Iron Man.
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 #7 published February 1967
as The Mad Pharaoh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #8 published April 1967
as The Mad Pharoah! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as The Mad Pharaoh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as The Mad Pharoah! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-229
Disclose Notes: Pharaoh misspelled as "pharoah" throughout the story (and on the cover).
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The Tree

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Wally Hadley; Mr. Hadley; Mrs. Hadley
First Line: Living far out in the country was going to be a lot of fun, young Wally decided.
Synopsis: When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Stories of Suspense #11 published October 1956
was The Tree [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-435
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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One of Us Must Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): Paul Reinman [as P. Reinman]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek [as A. Simek]
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Darius Wentworth
First Line: I've had to make lots of tough decisions since I became a space jockey, but the...
Synopsis: When a space passenger yacht is damaged, one of the passengers must be sacrificed for the others to survive. The captain lies in order to discover which is the most selfish and trick that person into making the sacrifice.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as One of Us Must Die! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-312
Disclose Notes: Perhaps with an oxygen shortage the captain shouldn't be smoking a pipe.
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I Come From the Sky!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Serge Plotski
First Line: This is the startling tale of a man who almost became a god!
Synopsis: A communist agent in Africa is supplying guns and explosives to tribesmen to encourage uprisings. When flying his plane to another group, he gets struck by lightning and ditches his plane near an unknown tribe. These natives are like the ones in King Kong who have built a huge wall to keep out some horrible beast. The agent uses his lighter and last bullet to convince them he is a sky-god, but they deposit him outside the wall, alone and unarmed, with instructions to use his divine powers to defeat their huge beast.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as I Come from the Sky! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-313

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