Volume: 1
Price: 0.12 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1963-09-10
Editing: Stan Lee (editor)
This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date is the publication date reported in U.S. Copyright Office filings.

The Mysterious Mr. Doll!

Iron Man / comic story / 18 pages

Script:
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils:
Steve Ditko (credited)
Inks:
Dick Ayers (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)

  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:[X-496]
Characters:
Charleton Carter (introduction); Bill
Synopsis:
Mister Doll uses magic dolls to take over whole companies. Iron Man stops him with the help of a new suit of armor. In the process Tony enrages Pepper by toying with her affections to create a diversion.
Reprints (20)

Indexer Notes

Iron Man gets his new, modern-looking red and gold armor designed by Steve Ditko.

Mister Doll was originally named Mister Pain, a change noticeable in the lettering and confirmed in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1. It was presumably changed to meet the restrictions of the Comics Code. (Note added by Haydn via the GCD Error Tracker.)

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo.

text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Joe Maneely (signed as M.)
Inks:
Joe Maneely (signed as M.)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:[9734]
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The tall, young man sat at his desk and stared steadily at the sheet of paper in his typewriter.
Characters:
Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil [Uninvited Guest]; Branders Conrad
Synopsis:
A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Stan Lee (credited) (plot)
Larry Lieber (credited) (script)
Pencils:
Larry Lieber (credited)
Inks:
George Roussos (credited as G. Bell)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

  • Genre:science fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It has been written that no man can escape his fate!
Characters:
Hans Hartog; Kraddak
Synopsis:
An alien tells a greedy mine owner that he will be killed in a fall. The mine owner hides at the lowest possible point in his mine, but is killed in a cave-in.
Reprints (4)

Indexer Notes

This is a retelling of "The Man Who Fell!" drawn by Paul Reinman in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #85 (June 1961).

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