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Issue: Tales of Suspense #72

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Publication Date: December 1965

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Issues: #72 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: 09/09/1965

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 10.0 pence GBQ 0-0-10

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1965, page 308, registration number B215982.

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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 #72 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #72 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Sleeper Shall Awake!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; First Sleeper

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Pages: 1

Hoorah for the Conquering Hero!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Mad Thinker; Awesome Android; Pepper Potts; Countess Stephanie de la Spirosa; Senator Harrington Byrd

Synopsis: Back in New York Iron Man is lauded for his victory over Titanium Man. An aggrieved Countess Stephanie de la Spirosa visits the Mad Thinker to enlist his aid in discovering Iron Man's identity. The Awesome Android is sent to abduct Tony Stark. In the Mad Thinker's lab Tony tricks his foes with a sleep gas-filled briefcase. He dons his armor and defeats the Android. The Thinker's lab explodes. Iron Man rescues the Thinker and the Countess. Meanwhile, in hospital, Happy's condition has worsened. Tony cannot visit him because he needs to recharge his chest plate, much to Pepper's annoyance!

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Pages: 12

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins

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Pages: 1

Notes: Items, The Mighty Marvel Checklist, list of 26 M.M.M.S. members, order blank for Iron Man T-shirt & Marvel Stationery Kit.

The Sleeper Shall Awake!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Inker(s): Carl Hubbell ? (pages 8-10 uncredited)

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]]; Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]; Sleepers [Herr von Kimmer; Erica Wolfmann]; First Sleeper

Synopsis: Cap goes after the Sleepers, sleeper agents planted by the Red Skull who were to activate the Sleeper robots 20 years after the War.

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Pages: 10

Notes: This story marks the return of the 1960s setting.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from Donn Macpherson, Henry Gross, Nathan Zimmerman, George Hagenauer (future comic book dealer), Joey Smoroso; next issue blurb; order blank for joining M.M.M.S.