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Issue: Tales of Suspense #50
Publication Date: February 1964
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Issues: #50 of 99 Issues (172 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: 11/12/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in November 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements and is the second issue of Tales of Suspense without text pages.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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The Mandarin!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mandarin
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2003
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 published January 2010
In Content Item: FlagFakkelen og Jernmannen #4/1968 published January 1968
as Jernmannen i kamp med Mandarinen!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagThe Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #12 [Direct Edition] published November 1986
as Marvel Saga Classic Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as Tales of Suspense #50 [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 #50 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Hands of the Mandarin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mandarin (villain, introduction); "Pepper" Potts; "Happy" Hogan; Bill; General Ho Lee
First Line: I pity you, Iron Man!!
Synopsis: The Pentagon sends Iron Man into red China to get information on the Mandarin, an evil scientist feared even by the Communist regime. Iron Man struggles to overcome the Mandarin's powerful rings and martial arts, but he escapes his castle.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2003
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #1 published January 2010
In Issue: FlagIron Man Epic Collection #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2014
In Content Item: FlagFakkelen og Jernmannen #4/1968 published January 1968
as Jernmannen i kamp med Mandrainen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #20 published October 1992
as The Hands of the Mandarin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as The Hands of the Mandarin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-556
Disclose Notes: Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/don-heck-tales-of-suspense-50-complete-13-page-story-the-hands-of-the-mandarin-original/a/7248-91015.s

In this story Pepper gets a makeover and is consequently redrawn as a more attractive woman.
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Another Marvel Masterpiece

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertises Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #9 (February 1964). Printed between the pages of the Iron Man story.
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Them!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Adam Bentley; Larry Lieber
First Line: Sometimes the incredible begins with the commonplace!
Synopsis: A man frantically tries to convince passersby that he is being chased by storybook characters. He is arrested by the police, but disappears from his jail cell, as he himself is a fictional character created by Larry Lieber.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Them! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-535
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Another Marvel Masterpiece

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertises Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #23 (February 1964).
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Journey's End!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Wilbur Weems; Sally
First Line: In this log is inscribed the whole pageant of cosmic history!
Synopsis: A meek and lonely space pilot volunteers for a suicide mission to investigate a strange cosmic cloud. The cloud hides a utopian planet, whose inhabitants only want humans brave enough to face the unknown to visit them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #5 published October 1966
as Journey's End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #53 published April 1973
as La fine del viaggio! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "La fine del viaggio!", Italian translation
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-526

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