Tales of Suspense #54 Values

COVER DETAILS

Title: The Mandarin's Revenge!

Characters: Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mandarin

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Chic Stone

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Letters credits from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

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STORY DETAILS

Story #1 Story #2 Story #3 Story #4 (4 Stories)

Title: The Mandarin's Revenge!

Characters: Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mandarin; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan

Synopsis: Tony's observer missiles have failed in Vietnam. So, he goes to investigate, wich leads him to the Mandarin. He attacks the Mandarin's castle, but he is captured.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: The Mandarin last appears in issue #50 (February 1964). This story continues next issue.

Title: Secret Mission

Characters: Ezra Bolton; Prof. Carmichael; Prof. Greever

Synopsis: A bookkeeper dreams that he is a government agent hunting a mad scientist with a destructive sound device.

Pages: 1.670

Letters: typeset

Notes: Sequence inclusion due to David Postle via the GCD Error List (27 February 2007). The first page is printed between the pages of the Iron Man story, while the second page is printed between the back-up story and Tales of the Watcher story. The last page is split with a promo.

Title: Skrang Strikes Tonight!

Characters: Skrang; Miss Hotchkiss; Fox-People

Synopsis: An invincible alien invader has weapons that can disable all Earth's armed forces, but he is frightened off when he see's an old lady's fox-fur collar, since his people have never been able to beat a fox-like alien race, and he thinks that the humans have beat and skinned them.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils: Larry Lieber

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: Hands Off!

Characters: Watcher [Uatu]; Ikor (Uatu's father, flashback); Emnu (flashback)

Synopsis: The Watcher is tempted to break his vow of non-interference, but sees that it is for the best to obey.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils: Larry Lieber

Inks: Chic Stone

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #10 (August 1967)

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