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Issue: Tales of Suspense #54
Publication Date: June 1964
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Issues: #54 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: 03/10/1964
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in March 1964. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1964, page 349, registration number B96819.
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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 Mandarin's Revenge!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mandarin
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #2 [Regular Edition] published May 2005
In Issue: FlagThe Invincible Iron Man Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
In Content Item: FlagFantastic! #26 published August 1967
as The Mandarin's Revenge! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as Tales of Suspense #54 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mandarin's Revenge!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mandarin; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan
First Line: Being a superhero like Iron Man isn't all fun and glamor!
Synopsis: Tony's observer missiles have failed in Vietnam. So, he goes to investigate, wich leads him to the Mandarin. He attacks the Mandarin's castle, but he is captured.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #2 [Regular Edition] published May 2005
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 Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as The Mandarin's Revenge! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-672
Disclose Notes: The Mandarin last appears in issue #50 (February 1964). This story continues next issue.
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Secret Mission

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Ezra Bolton; Prof. Carmichael; Prof. Greever
First Line: "The effect of sound waves upon matter have always been a problem of interest to scientists, Mr. Bolton," Professor Carmichael told...
Synopsis: A bookkeeper dreams that he is a government agent hunting a mad scientist with a destructive sound device.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #43 published January 1956
was Secret Mission [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.67
Job Number: H-487
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Skrang Strikes Tonight!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Skrang; Miss Hotchkiss; Fox-People
First Line: If you're a faithful reader of our mags, you know that fantasy tales can begin at the most unlikely places... even on...
Synopsis: An invincible alien invader has weapons that can disable all Earth's armed forces, but he is frightened off when he see's an old lady's fox-fur collar, since his people have never been able to beat a fox-like alien race, and he thinks that the humans have beat and skinned them.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as Skrang Strikes Tonight! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-656
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Now on Sale!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Avengers
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Advertises The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #5 (May 1964). This shares the last page of "Secret Mission".
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Hands Off!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Watcher [Uatu]; Ikor (Uatu's father, flashback); Emnu (flashback)
First Line: On a distant spinning sphere stands the strangest figure in the heavens--the majestic Watcher, whom we now...
Synopsis: The Watcher is tempted to break his vow of non-interference, but sees that it is for the best to obey.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #10 published August 1967
as Hands Off! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #59 published July 1973
as Giù le mani! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-654

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