Tales of Suspense, #42 British
Published: June 1963
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"Iron Man, you've blundered into the Red Barbarian's Trap! This..."
Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]
- the Red Barbarian
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Don Heck
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Trapped by the Red Barbarian
"Iron Man you dare to come here... where doom awaits you?"
Storyline
A Soviet spymaster sends a master of disguise to steal the design of Tony Stark's latest weapon. The Actor steals the plans and learns Iron Man's secret identity, but Iron Man regains the plans and tricks the communists into killing their own agent.
Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]
- Gregori
- Vukov
- The Red Barbarian (introduction)
- The Actor [Sir Reginald] (introduction)
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Script: Marie-Christine Demeure
- Pencils: Don Heck
- Inks: Don Heck
- Letters: E. Thomas
Discovery
"Before Chauncey set out for the Hotchkiss Fair, he took his..."
Storyline
A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
Characters
- Chauncey
- Zeke
- Muscles Magee
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Maneely
- Inks: Joe Maneely
Story Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Speak of the Haunted House!
"Like haunted house stories??"
Storyline
Two friends make a bet about the existence of ghosts in a haunted house. The doubting friend thinks he saw no ghosts, but the house itself is a ghost.
Characters
- Rodney
- Smith
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Plot is similar to the Maneely story "I Was Locked in a... Haunted House!", in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #7.
Escape into Space
"There goes the law!"
Storyline
A convict believes that he escaped his captors on a strange planet, but the plan all along was for him to serve his sentence there, thinking that he is free.
Characters
- Conrad Zeno
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Script: Larry Lieber
- Pencils: Larry Lieber
- Inks: Matt Fox
- Letters: Artie Simek