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Issue: Tales of Suspense #56
Publication Date: August 1964
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Issues: #56 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: 05/12/1964
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 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 B112135.
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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 Uncanny Unicorn!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as Tales of Suspense #56 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Uncanny Unicorn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Crimson Dynamo [Anton Vanko] (flashback)
First Line: I'm sick of being Iron Man!
Synopsis: A Soviet agent with high-tech armor comes to the US to capture Iron Man. He kidnaps Pepper and injures Happy to draw Iron Man out, and then threatens to blow up Stark's factory unless Iron Man comes with him. Iron Man boards Unicorn's plane, but then destroys it, though the Unicorn escapes.
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 January 2014
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #14 published April 1968
as The Uncanny Unicorn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Iron Man #1 [1st Printing] published November 2000
as The Uncanny Unicorn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: X-716
Disclose Notes: Unicorn next appears in a cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (1965), before appearing in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966).
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Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertises Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #123 (August 1964) and Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #58 (August 1964). Appears after page 5 of the Iron Man story.
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[untitled]

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Appears after page 10 of the Iron Man story.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Appears after page 13 of the Iron Man story.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for a coin bank shaped like a replica of the Unisphere from the 1964 New York World's Fair from Hanover Distributors.
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Camouflage Paint

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Sold by Novel Products Corp.
Appears after the last page of the Iron Man story.
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Make $3 to $5 an Hour Starting Soon

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for home electronics course.
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Pouf!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie Smith; Will
Synopsis: A boy stumbles across a secret disintegrating formula stolen from a government lab.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #39 published September 1955
was The Atomizer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]page 2; as "Pouf!"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: G-542
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Printed between the Iron Man story and the Tales of the Watcher story. Continues from last issue.
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Stamps; Shop By Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Classified advertisements appearing between the text story and the Watcher story.
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The Watcher's Sacrifice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Watcher [Uatu]; Queen Kalthea; Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo)]
First Line: A little imagination... that's all it takes for us to...
Synopsis: The Watcher falls in love with a courageous alien queen, but his duty forces him to leave her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #21 published June 1969
as The Watcher's Sacrifice! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #61 published August 1973
as Il sacrificio dell'Osservatore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-714
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Hey Fellas... Now You Can Build Your Own Go-Kart

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Stamps; Shop By Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Various classified-style advertisements.
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[untitled]

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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