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Issue Details

Issue #58
Published October 1964
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in July 1964. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Captain America!"

Characters Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2004); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008); in Iron Man / Captain America (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

18 page Iron Man story "In Mortal Combat with Captain America!"

Characters Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Chameleon [Dmitri Smerdyakov]; Kraven the Hunter [Sergei Kravanoff]; Happy Hogan; Pepper Potts; Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo); The Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (cameo)
Synopsis The Chameleon tricks Iron Man into attacking Captain America, and the two fight until the misunderstanding is discovered.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes This story sets up the launch of an ongoing Captain America feature in the next issue.
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #18 (December 1968); in Giant-Size Iron Man (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (October 1975); in Mighty Marvel Team-Up Thrillers (Marvel, 1983 series) #[nn] (1983); in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2004); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008); in Iron Man / Captain America (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "More Triumphs for Marvel..!"

Synopsis Advertises Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964), Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #2 (1964) and Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964). Printed between the pages of the Iron Man story.

1 page text story "The Runner!"

Characters Mike; Hermes; Snaky Blake
Synopsis A chance encounter with Hermes teaches a boy how to run fast.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Continues from last issue. Printed between the Iron Man story and the Tales of the Watcher story. This is the last text story page published in Tales of Suspense.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #26 (September 1955) [page 2]

5 page Tales of the Watcher story "The Watcher Must Die!"

Characters Watcher [Uatu]; Warlord Wrogg
Synopsis An alien warlord attacks the Watcher, and is instantly destroyed by accelerated aging.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska
Letters Artie Simek
Notes This is the last Tales of the Watcher story in Tales of Suspense. Another series starts as a back-up in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (August 1968).
Reprinted in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #24 (December 1969)