Tales of Suspense #89

Tales of Suspense

by Stan Lee, Gene Colan (Artist), Gil Kane (Artist)

Old enemies resurface! First, Iron Man must contend with a new and improved Melter! Then: Captain America confronts his deadliest foe: the Red Skull!

Genres: Marvel, Comics

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 1967

About the author

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

Reviews

[Teal · Rating 3 out of 5]

With nice setup for a showdown with one of Shellhead's lamer villains and a mediocre trap from the Red Skull, this issue is forgettable but not offensively so. The fake Bucky revival is handled as well a fake Bucky revival could be and it's nice to see what Tony Stark gets up to when he isn't Iron Man-ing. All that said, I wouldn't recommend reading this unless you had literally nothing to do with 20 minutes of your life.

[Joey Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cap comes face to face with the Red Skull, who survived their last encounter. He throws everything he can at our Star Spangled Avenger to no avail. Then comes Bucky. Cap is stunned, especially when Bucky attacks him and says that Cap left him to die and never cared for him. Cap fights him off and realizes this isn't the real Bucky, just a robot. Red Skull leaves him in a room where the walls are closing in as we end the issue.