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Tales of Suspense
Tales of Suspense #59
The Black Knight returns to exact his revenge on the Avengers, but with the rest of the team out of town and his chest device malfunctioning, will Iron Man be able to stop him alone? Also: Captain America must save Jarvis from Bull and his gang!
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 10, 1964
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Stan Lee
7,563 books2,343 followersStan 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.
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.
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November 24, 2025
This is the issue of TOS that 'splits' into two features. Iron Man (IM) and Captain America (CA) will continue on for several years until both get their own books. The art of Jack Kirby on CA makes this a must read series; I personally think that it is some of his best work in the 60's.
October 30, 2024
Und co my z nim zrobimy? Verdamnt kapitan ameryka nie moze byc schiesen. No coz, retro ciag dalszy ale akurat to slabo sie zestarzalo. Taki miks propagandy, naiwnosci oraz prostych rozwiazan. Kiedys komiksy byly prostrze :)
July 23, 2021
Inicio de la serie dual de Ironman y Capitán América, antes de que el Capitán la mantenga en solitario.
Primera aparición de Edwin Jarvis. (Curiosamente aparece en la parte correspondiente a Capitán América)
Primera aparición de Edwin Jarvis. (Curiosamente aparece en la parte correspondiente a Capitán América)
January 18, 2021
Cap sharing the same Tales billing with Shell head before having each of their own comic title.
December 26, 2022
Oh my God, the consequences of this comic?! Things are getting SPICY
April 4, 2023
Tony Stark’s health is in real trouble. Will he have to stay Iron Man forever? Captain America guards the Avengers Mansion from mobsters. The first comic was better.
January 12, 2020
TALES OF SUSPENSE #59, 65-68 (The Red Skull Strikes)
*Note: This review is for Captain America's storyline;
for a review of the Iron Man Storyline, scroll below.
This is a great little story; It's even more impressive because it's co-authored by the creator of Cap himself, Jack Kirby, thus giving him an opportunity to create a great Captain America story with a larger budget and more creative freedom than he was ever allowed in the Golden Age. The result is something really special.
In the larger story of Marvel, there's a greater significance to this flashback storyline; Stan Lee wanted to re-familiarize readers with the Red Skull, the golden age villain who was a dark mirror to Cap. Where Cap is an exaggerated nationalized version of America, Skull is an exaggerated nationalized version of Germany. The story even uses this nice metaphor as a sort of profound criticism of the United States' then current political climate, as Cap literally is hypnotized into being a blindly loyal Nazi; thus, the storyline really begs the question of if America is truly any better than the countries we vilify?
Truly profound stuff for 1960s comic books... then again, that's what made Stan Lee the greatest comic book writer of his time; where his contemporaries treated it as a paycheck, he actually took the medium seriously.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #59-62 (The Death of Tony Stark)
*Note: This review is for the Iron Man storyline;
for a review of the Captain America storyline, scroll above.
This is an interesting little thriller; following a battle, Tony Stark's chest reactor is so drained he must use the transistors from his suit to recharge it... meaning he can never again remove the Iron Man armor.
This premise allows an interesting dynamic to be explored, between Tony Stark and his relationship to the other characters; the story is able to explore the interesting "What if?" of how these character's lives might be different if Tony Stark weren't around. Would some characters lives actually be BETTER if Tony Stark weren't around? In the ongoing saga of Marvel's most selfish and least likable character, it actually presents him with some overwhelming consequences to his actions, as the only person who'd actually benefit from Tony Stark returning would be... Tony Stark himself!
It's also interesting to see Tony Stark rendered as helpless as he's rendered other people in the past; surely others have been victim to shrapnel, same as him, with the key difference being his weapons were what put shrapnel in them. Thus, it almost makes the story an act of Karma; perhaps what's happening to Tony, in being trapped in armor plating with shrapnel in him, is the perfect punishment for the lives he's indirectly taken from this earth in the past. Not only does the story question whether or not Tony Stark offers any use coming back, but whether or not Tony Stark has a RIGHT to come back.
Obviously the sort of problematic elephant in the room is the Mandarin; basically, I hate him. An exact word of dialogue in this arc even ironically calls him "an imitation Fu Manchu." I feel like this awful character had less to do with Stan Lee (he did create the ancient one after all) and more to do with studio interference telling him they needed a villain to bank on Chinese Red Scare; this happened with a lot of characters Lee was forced to create in this era which he quickly forgot about... the only difference was none of them had over 500 letters requesting they be brought back, or an interfering executive pressuring him to bring them back. Whatever the intention behind this awful character is, his appearance in this story is very brief (only in the last two issues of the arc, actually), and here there's somewhat of an effort to present him alongside nuanced asians who aren't totally evil like him; it's not that successful an effort but it's better than nothing.
Despite a rather one-dimensional asian stereotype, who's more of an irrelevant subplot than the bread and butter, the story has merits that make it one of the most interesting Iron Man stories of the Silver Age, and probably the last truly great one of this era; certainly worth checking out for that alone.
*Note: This review is for Captain America's storyline;
for a review of the Iron Man Storyline, scroll below.
This is a great little story; It's even more impressive because it's co-authored by the creator of Cap himself, Jack Kirby, thus giving him an opportunity to create a great Captain America story with a larger budget and more creative freedom than he was ever allowed in the Golden Age. The result is something really special.
In the larger story of Marvel, there's a greater significance to this flashback storyline; Stan Lee wanted to re-familiarize readers with the Red Skull, the golden age villain who was a dark mirror to Cap. Where Cap is an exaggerated nationalized version of America, Skull is an exaggerated nationalized version of Germany. The story even uses this nice metaphor as a sort of profound criticism of the United States' then current political climate, as Cap literally is hypnotized into being a blindly loyal Nazi; thus, the storyline really begs the question of if America is truly any better than the countries we vilify?
Truly profound stuff for 1960s comic books... then again, that's what made Stan Lee the greatest comic book writer of his time; where his contemporaries treated it as a paycheck, he actually took the medium seriously.
TALES OF SUSPENSE #59-62 (The Death of Tony Stark)
*Note: This review is for the Iron Man storyline;
for a review of the Captain America storyline, scroll above.
This is an interesting little thriller; following a battle, Tony Stark's chest reactor is so drained he must use the transistors from his suit to recharge it... meaning he can never again remove the Iron Man armor.
This premise allows an interesting dynamic to be explored, between Tony Stark and his relationship to the other characters; the story is able to explore the interesting "What if?" of how these character's lives might be different if Tony Stark weren't around. Would some characters lives actually be BETTER if Tony Stark weren't around? In the ongoing saga of Marvel's most selfish and least likable character, it actually presents him with some overwhelming consequences to his actions, as the only person who'd actually benefit from Tony Stark returning would be... Tony Stark himself!
It's also interesting to see Tony Stark rendered as helpless as he's rendered other people in the past; surely others have been victim to shrapnel, same as him, with the key difference being his weapons were what put shrapnel in them. Thus, it almost makes the story an act of Karma; perhaps what's happening to Tony, in being trapped in armor plating with shrapnel in him, is the perfect punishment for the lives he's indirectly taken from this earth in the past. Not only does the story question whether or not Tony Stark offers any use coming back, but whether or not Tony Stark has a RIGHT to come back.
Obviously the sort of problematic elephant in the room is the Mandarin; basically, I hate him. An exact word of dialogue in this arc even ironically calls him "an imitation Fu Manchu." I feel like this awful character had less to do with Stan Lee (he did create the ancient one after all) and more to do with studio interference telling him they needed a villain to bank on Chinese Red Scare; this happened with a lot of characters Lee was forced to create in this era which he quickly forgot about... the only difference was none of them had over 500 letters requesting they be brought back, or an interfering executive pressuring him to bring them back. Whatever the intention behind this awful character is, his appearance in this story is very brief (only in the last two issues of the arc, actually), and here there's somewhat of an effort to present him alongside nuanced asians who aren't totally evil like him; it's not that successful an effort but it's better than nothing.
Despite a rather one-dimensional asian stereotype, who's more of an irrelevant subplot than the bread and butter, the story has merits that make it one of the most interesting Iron Man stories of the Silver Age, and probably the last truly great one of this era; certainly worth checking out for that alone.
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