• Genre:superhero
• Job Number:X-556

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:I pity you, Iron Man!!
• Keywords:China

Synopsis:

The Pentagon sends Iron Man into red China to get information on the Mandarin, an evil scientist feared even by the Communist regime. Iron Man struggles to overcome the Mandarin's powerful rings and martial arts, but he escapes his castle.

Reprints (17)

• in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #12
• in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #12 (6 May 1967) [Black and white.]
• in Fakkelen og Jernmannen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1968 series) #4/1968 (1968)
• in Spider-Man Comics Weekly (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #76 (27 July 1974)
• in Titan Pocket Book (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #6 (1980)
• in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #181 (5 janvier 1985)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #20 ([October] 1992)
• in Bring Back the Bad Guys (Marvel, 1998 series) (1998)
• in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (November 2000) [black and white]
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 [Regular Edition] (2003)
• in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008), #1 (2008)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010)
• in Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (Marvel, 2014 series) #8 - The Invincible Iron Man
• in Iron Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 - The Golden Avenger (2014)
• in True Believers: The Criminally Insane - Mandarin (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (March 2020)
• in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 [Second Edition] (2023)
• in Marvel Origins (Hachette [DE], 2023 series) #13 - Iron Man 2 (1963) ([Februar 2024])

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/don-heck-tales-of-suspense-50-complete-13-page-story-the-hands-of-the-mandarin-original/a/7248-91015.s

In this story Pepper gets a makeover and is consequently redrawn as a more attractive woman.

• Genre:horror-suspense
• Job Number:X-535

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Sometimes the incredible begins with the commonplace!

Synopsis:

A man frantically tries to convince passersby that he is being chased by storybook characters. He is arrested by the police, but disappears from his jail cell, as he himself is a fictional character created by Larry Lieber.

Reprints (3)

• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #49
which is reprinted
• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #164 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #15 (1963)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 (2012)

Info from Stéphane Petit via the GCD Error Report (September 28, 2009).

• Genre:science fiction; superhero
• Job Number:X-526

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:In this log is inscribed the whole pageant of cosmic history!

Synopsis:

A meek and lonely space pilot volunteers for a suicide mission to investigate a strange cosmic cloud. The cloud hides a utopian planet, whose inhabitants only want humans brave enough to face the unknown to visit them.

Reprints (6)

• in Out of This World (Alan Class, 1963 series) #16
• in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #5 (October 1966)
• in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #27 (14 October 1967)
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #53 (3 Aprile 1973) [as "La fine del viaggio!", Italian translation]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Rarities (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014)
• in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 - Génesis (Junio 2016)

Lettering credit is from the reprint in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #5.(Checked by Merlin Haas from that issue, October 1, 2009.)