| Issue | #47 |
| Published | November 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in August 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]; Melter [Bruno Horgan] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky ?; George Roussos ? |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #10 (August 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]; The Melter [Bruno Horgan] (introduction, origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan |
| Synopsis | A former competitor of Tony Stark becomes the Melter and sabotages one of his plants. Iron Man tries to defend it but must flee before the Melter. He defeats him by constructing an aluminum suit that he cannot melt. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Notes | Aluminum actually has a significantly lower melting point than iron. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #10; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #1; in Essential Iron Man (Marvel 2000 series) #1 [in black and white] |
| Characters | Barney |
| Synopsis | A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (April 1952) |
| Synopsis | A radar operator turns off Earth's defenses when alien raiders offer him the most beautiful woman in the universe, but he finds out too late that she is only beautiful to them. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | George Roussos [as G. Bell] |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | This is a retelling of "The Coming of the Krills" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko from Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #8 (January 1962). Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |