Tales of Suspense 1959 #40 - 3.5 - $325.00

Second appearance of Iron Man

Tony takes his newest date, Marion, to the circus. When the wild animals escape, he rounds them up as Iron Man. His grey armor scares the onlookers. Marion suggests that a golden metal might make him look more heroic. A golden Iron Man then battles Gargantus, who turns out to be a mighty robot built by aliens. Iron Man defeats Gargantus by hurling three magnets at him. The magnets float around the robot, ripping its body to pieces. Iron Man then throws the magnets at a flying saucer he just spotted. The aliens flee and, next day, Tony has another date with Marion.

An ordinary man realizes that he is really a medieval knight.

An unsuccessful artist tries to force a new painter to show him how to paint lifelike pictures. The painter is a sorcerer, and traps the artist in one of his paintings, the secret to his realism.

A man from the future arrives in the present day in order to set himself up as ruler. He attempts to extort 100 million dollars from the Secretary General of the United Nations only to be shocked when the Secretary reveals that he too is from the future and that there are agents planted in every era in order to apprehend criminals who may attempt to alter the course of events.

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1963, page 429, registration number B17487.

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• Wrong Number - Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed after page 5 of the Iron Man story, while the second, split with the statement of ownership, is printed between the two back-up stories.
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• Stamps Shop by Mail - Mail-order ads, mostly stamps.
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