| Issue | #44 |
| Published | August 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in May 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]; Cleopatra VII |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #7 (February 1967); 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]; Mad Pharaoh [Hatap] (introduction); Cleopatra VII; Paul (archeologist) |
| Synopsis | After waking up from a 2000 years long sleep, Hatap, the Mad Pharaoh brings Tony Stark in the past to resume his war against Cleopatra. Stark helps Cleopatra defeat Hatap as Iron Man. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Robert Bernstein (script) [as R. Berns] |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #7 (February 1967); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20 (1092); 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 | Wally Hadley |
| Synopsis | When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #11 (October 1956) |
| Characters | Darius |
| Synopsis | When a space passenger yacht is damaged, one of the passengers must be sacrificed for the others to survive. The captain lies in order to discover which is the most selfish and trick that person into making the sacrifice. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Perhaps with an oxygen shortage the captain shouldn't be smoking a pipe. |
| Characters | Serge Plotsky |
| Synopsis | A communist agent in Africa is supplying guns and explosives to tribesmen to encourage uprisings. When flying his plane to another group, he gets stuck by lightning and ditches his plane near an unknown tribe. These natives are like the ones in King Kong who have built a huge wall to keep out some horrible beast. The agent uses his lighter and last bullet to convince them he is a sky-god, but they deposit him outside the wall, alone and unarmed, with instructions to use his divine powers to defeat their huge beast. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |