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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published January 1964
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in October 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Angel"

Characters Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers.
Reprinted 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)

18 page The New Iron Man story "The New Iron Man Meets the Angel!"

Characters Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Happy Hogan; Pepper Potts; Professor X [Charles Xavier]; X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers] (cameo); Beast [Hank McCoy] (cameo); Iceman [Bobby Drake] (cameo); Marvel Girl [Jean Grey] (cameo); The Avengers [Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo); Thor [Don Blake] (cameo); Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (cameo); The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (cameo)]
Synopsis The Angel is affected by an atomic test done at one of Stark's weapons plant. his personality is altered and now he wants to join the Evil Mutants. The X-Men call the Avengers for help but only Iron Man is available.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Paul Reinman
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Giant-Size Iron Man (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (October 1975); 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) #21 (2008)

2 page text story "Strange Encounter"

Characters Andre Corday
Synopsis An American tourist in Paris is unwittingly targeted by a spy as an intelligence courier and is nearly killed.
Genre spy
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Spy Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #4 (May 1955)

5 page Tales of the Watcher story "The Saga of the Sneepers!"

Characters Watcher [Uatu] (narrator)
Synopsis An alien race watches humanity's progress, worried that they will one day overtake them. With the invention of the atomic bomb and the Cold War, they decide that humanity will wipe itself out before it poses a threat.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks George Roussos [as G. Bell]
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes This is the first Tales of the Watcher story in Tales of Suspense.
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #3 (June 1966); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #52 (March 20, 1973) [as "La saga degli Sneepers!", Italian translation]