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Issue: Tales of Suspense #40

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Publication Date: April 1963

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Issues: #40 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/10/1963

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1963, page 429, registration number B17487.

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

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Format

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

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Tales of Suspense #40 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #40 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Gargantus

First Line: His size alone does not worry me! But...

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Pages: 1

Iron Man versus Gargantus!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jeanne; Marion; Gargantus (introduction, origin); aliens

First Line: History has recorded many a bitter duel to the death!

Synopsis: Tony takes his newest date, Marion, to the circus. When the wild animals escape, he rounds them up as Iron Man. His grey armor scares the onlookers. Marion suggests that a golden metal might make him look more heroic. A golden Iron Man then battles Gargantus, who turns out to be a mighty robot built by aliens. Iron Man defeats Gargantus by hurling three magnets at him. The magnets float around the robot, ripping its body to pieces. Iron Man then throws the magnets at a flying saucer he just spotted. The aliens flee and, next day, Tony has another date with Marion.

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Pages: 13

Job Number: X-131

Notes: George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index incorectly credts Jon D'Agostino as letterer.

Wrong Number

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Joey Doakes; Phil Turner

First Line: Joey Doakes dozed fitfully and dreamed of bygone days.

Synopsis: An ordinary man realizes that he is really a medieval knight.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1.75

Job Number: H-721

Notes: Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the Iron Man story, while the second is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.

Work of Art!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Frans Ridderkerk; Henrick Rammp

First Line: All his life he had longed for a masterpiece!

Synopsis: An unsuccessful artist tries to force a new painter to show him how to paint lifelike pictures. The painter is a sorcerer, and traps the artist in one of his paintings, the secret to his realism.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-132

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: Average sales per issue October 1961–September 1962 (issues #26–36), despite monthly cover dates): 126,140. This shares the last page of "Wrong Number".

Prophet of Doom!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Charlie; Joe

First Line: There didn't seem to be anything strange about him--until he took off his hat!

Synopsis: A man from the future arrives in the present day in order to set himself up as ruler. He attempts to extort 100 million dollars from the Secretary General of the United Nations only to be shocked when the Secretary reveals that he too is from the future and that there are agents planted in every era in order to apprehend criminals who may attempt to alter the course of events.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-817