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Tales of Suspense, #39

Published: March 1963

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Issue Contents:
Iron Man!

Story Featuring Iron Man

"Who? Who? Who?"

Characters
Other
Credits
Iron Man Is Born!

Story Featuring Iron Man

"Watch his awesome approach! Listen to his ponderous footsteps as he lumbers closer... closer... for today you are destined to encounter-- the Invincible Iron Man!!"

Storyline

Playboy industrialist and weapons designer Tony Stark is injured in Vietnam and captured by communists. While pretending to build a weapon for his captors he builds a suit of battle armor to keep his injured heart beating and uses it to escape and beat the communist commander.

Characters
Other
Credits
Story Notes

This is the first Iron Man story.

The Last Rocket!

"Don't be fools!"

Storyline

When the sun starts dieing humanity goes into space, except for two nature lovers. Just as the last rocket leaves a new sun flares to life, and the two remaining humans, Adam and Eve, rename the planet Earth.

Credits
Story Notes

This is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958).

Gundar!

"Take one lone man, shipwrecked on a strange isle..."

Storyline

A shipwrecked man finds cursed viking ghosts on an island, and his descent from the captain that cursed them releases them.

Credits
The Treasure

"Tommy's scrawny yellow pup was a wishing dog."

Storyline

A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.

Story Notes

Text story with illustration.

Saturday Morning Shoe Store

"Make $5.00 to $20.00 a week extra operating this "Saturday morning shoe store""

Story Notes

Send for free shoe selling outfit from Mason Shoe Mfg. Co., Dept. H-655, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. On last page.

Learn Radio Television Electronics
Story Notes

Send for free information on NRI electronics courses from National Radio Institute, 3939 Wisconsin Ave., Washington 16, D.C. Inside back cover.

Boys! Men! My Secret New Dynaflex Method
Story Notes

Ad for Dynaflex body-building course for $1.98 from Mike Marvel System, Dept. 63, 285 Market St., Newark, N.J. On last interior page.

104 Kings' Knights
Story Notes

Send $1.49 for plastic medieval knights and horses with treasure chest from 104 Kings Knights, Dept. G, Carle Place, L.I., N.Y.

Stamps Shop by Mail

"Stamp collecting outfit"

Story Notes

Mail-order ads, mostly stamps.

1001 Things That You Can Get Free
Story Notes

Send 69¢ for list of 1001 free things from Things Free, P.O. Box 1225-MC, Newark 1, New Jersey. At bottom half of page following preceding story.

Reward $9,985.50 for This Coin!
Story Notes

Advertisement by Best Values Coin Company, Dept. A-28, 285 Market St., Newark, New Jersey, listing prices they will pay for certain coins. Illustrated is the 1804 silver dollar. Send $1.00 for coin catalogue. At top of page after preceding story.

Live Sea Horses!
Story Notes

Ad for "mated pair of Dwarf species Living Sea Horses" for $6.98 for two pairs from Florida Sea Horse Co., Dept. 210, Box 5095, Miami 1, Florida. On bottom of first page after end of "Iron Man Is Born!"

Learn Any Dance Fast!
Story Notes

Ad for "giant foot charts" for dancing for $1.00 from Famous Dance Course, Dept. A-4, Box 1042, Miami Beach 39, Florida. In center of first page after end of "Iron Man is Born!"

Look! Boys Wanted to Sell Grit
Story Notes

Ad seeking sellers of Grit newspaper from Grit Publishing Co., Williamsport, Pa. On top of first page after end of "Iron Man Is Born!"

Draw the First Day
Story Notes

Send $1.98 for a drawing aid from Norton Products, Dept. 833, 296 Broadway, New York 7, N.Y.

To Men who Want Big Money but Don’t Know How to Get Started
Story Notes

Send for free booklet with information on CTI courses in air conditioning from Commercial Trades Institute, Dept. R-135, 1400 Greenleaf Avenue, Chicago 26, Illinois. After first page of text story.

Fill the Gaps in Your Family's Education with the Amazing Made Simple Self-Teaching Encyclopedia
Story Notes

Pay $1.98 per volume for 25 volume Made Simple Self-Teaching Encyclopedia sold by Cadillac Publishing Co. Inc., Dept. A-255, 220 Fifth Ave., New York 1, N.Y. Indicia at bottom of page. On inside front cover.