| Issue | #43 |
| Published | July 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in April 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Kala; Jim; Evans |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #6 (December 1966); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20 (1992); in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) |
| Characters | Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Kala (introduction); Baxu; Jim; Evans |
| Synopsis | Stark is abducted by the queen of an underground kingdom to help her invade the surface. As Iron Man, Stark shows her that she would rapidly age on the surface, convincing her to call off the invasion. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Robert Bernstein (script) [as R Berns] |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Kala next appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #127 (October 1972). |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #6 (December 1966); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20 (1992); in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) |
| Characters | Harry |
| Synopsis | A man finds out that he keeps turning blue because he is really an alien from a planet of blue people. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #24 (May 1955) |
| Characters | Simon Stanley; Jukes |
| Synopsis | A scientist creates a time machine just to prove that it can be done, but never plans to use it, since he knows that it would be too dangerous to attempt to alter the past. His assistant, however, is envious of the fame such a journey would bring and so clouts the scientist on the jaw and takes off in the machine, only to find himself stuck in the past rendered insubstantial by fate like a ghost unable to affect anything. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Characters | Dirk Morgan; Siblus Slaad |
| Synopsis | A criminal steals a valuable diamond from Venus, but it is irradiated and makes him sick. He needs to steal the money to pay a doctor, but when he choses a target at random he kills the only doctor who could cure him. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Matt Fox |
| Letters | Tom Foral |
| Notes | Set in 2005. |