Category: Tales of Suspense 1959
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Tales of Suspense #59:Captain America
Cover Date: Nov 1964 | Review: 4.25 StarsThe second feature for Tales of Suspense #59 features Captain America in his first silver aged solo adventure. In this issue we have captain america left as the Avenger tending to Avengers mansion while the others are out. Then we have Bull, a criminal ringleader, thinking to take advantage of the situation, seeing the captain…
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Tales of Suspense #59:The Black Knight
Cover Date: Nov 1964 | Review: 4.75 StarsAs I sit down to write a comic book review of the story titled “The Black Knight” featuring Iron man, published in Tales Of Suspense #59, I find that this story (despite a later cover month) would clearly fit before the events of Avengers #9. That small fact out-of-the-way (and the impact on the avengers…
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Tales Of Suspense #58:Tales Of The Watcher: The Watcher Must Die!
Cover Date: Oct 1964 | Review: 3.5 StarsFor the last of the series ‘Tales of the Watcher’ backup stories in Tales Of Suspense we have a five page story titled ‘The Watcher Must Die’ . In this story, we witness an armada led by warlord Wrogg confront the watcher on a remote asteroid. Believing that the watcher can not be as powerful as…
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Tales Of Suspense #58:Iron Man In Mortal Combat With Captain America!
Cover Date: Oct 1964 | Review: 3 StarsIn this Iron Man feature, One month before Captain America becomes the regular co-feature of Tales Of Suspense we have the two Heros face-off against each other in a battle of hero’s true to the comic book style of the time. In this issue, the Chameleon convinces Iron Man, that Captain America is the Chameleon.…
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Tales Of Suspense #57:Tales Of The Watcher: The Watcher’s Power
Cover Date: Sep 1964 | Review: 1.25 StarsWhile I feel with most of the super-hero stories Marvel was at least trying to be a little careful with minting some continuity, with there other stories (such as ones like the Tales Of the Watcher series) I feel they where less careful then even they should have been. For in this issue, a…
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Tales of Suspense #57:Hawkeye, The Marksman!
Cover Date: Sep 1964 | Review: 4.75 StarsThe Iron Man story from tails of suspense # 57 is the first appearance of Hawkeye. You may not know -the now famous Avenger- started out then as an adversary for Iron Man. With motivations rooted in jealousy, and an attitude that’s more selfish and egotistical than selfless, is how Hawkeye debuted. It’s more than…
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Tales Of Suspense #56:Tales Of The Watcher: The Watcher’s Sacrifice!
Cover Date: Aug 1964 | Review: 3 StarsIn this issue, we learn of one thing that the watcher sacrifice’s for his oath and duty, how non interference can extend to love itself. it is a sad tale, of how he must forsake love; and live with that, but not without its flaws. In this issue, we see the watcher, “show himself” to the aliens on the distant…
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Tales Of Suspense #56 :The Uncanny Unicorn
Cover Date: Aug 1964 | Review: 3 StarsIn this issue, we get to see a side of iron Man’s alter ego Tony stark, that I do not recall seeing yet. We have seen him as the Rich playboy inventor; but we have as of yet seen him depressed. This issue starts off with him in a fit of self pity, over having to…
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Tales Of Suspense #55:Tales Of The Watcher: The Sun-Stealer!
Cover Date: Jul 1964 | Review: 4.25 StarsAfter our recent stories showing us some of the history of the watcher, we get a tale that shows the watcher in a more modern light, as he is visited on the moon by an alien space craft. the craft that is set on a go alto steal our earths sun. but the watcher is forbidden from interfering, only able…
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Tales Of Suspense #54:Tales Of The Watcher Hands Off!
Cover Date: Jun 1964 | Review: 4.25 StarsWorry not watcher fan’s, I did not forget the tales of the watcher story when i read Tales Of Suspense last week, here is my comic book review of the one from Tales Of Suspense #54 titled “Hands Off!” After last months tale where we learn the origin of the watcher, this month we get another tale evolving…
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Tales Of Suspense #55:No One Escapes The Mandarin
Cover Date: Jul 1964 | Review: 4 StarsI could not wait, after reading Tales Of Suspense #54, I had to follow up with part II right away. Today’s comic book review is of The Iron man feature titled “No One Escapes The Mandarin” from Tales Of Suspense #55. but how can they follow up the last issue? how can Iron Man escape let alone save…
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Tales Of Suspense #54:The Mandarin’s Revenge
Cover Date: Jun 1964 | Review: 4 StarsFor this comic book review I read the Iron Man feature from Tales Of Suspense #54. this story was titled “The Mandarin’s Revenge” and serves at the first part of a two-part story. In this tale, Tony Stark goes to Vietnam to investigate the cause of some of his missiles malfunctioning, only after some careful thinking does he concluded that…
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Tales Of Suspense #53:Tales Of The Watcher: The Way It Began…
Cover Date: May 1964 | Review: 4 StarsIt is surprising to me, that the watchers races origin, on how they became the watcher’s would be put here, in his “Tales of the Watcher” section. Up until now they been mostly stories much like the other non superhero tales that used to feature these magazines, but in this issue, we get a look into the origin of a character and race…
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Tales Of Suspense #53:The Black Widow Strikes Again!
Cover Date: May 1964 | Review: 4 StarsTales Of Suspense #53 is the second appearance of the Black Widow, and coming just one issue after her first, making this story a true follow-up to the events of Tales Of Suspense #52. This issue, however focuses in more on her character as the central antagonist, then the last one did, but does that alone make it worth reading?…
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Tales Of Suspense #52:The Failure!
Cover Date: Apr 1964 | Review: 4.25 StarsFor this review I read the Tales of the Watcher story from Tales Of Suspense #52, this story is titled “The Failure!” and it is set in earths future, about 300 years. after all war is abolished and peace rains on earth. But then goes on to show that the focus of men, has become business.…
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Tales Of Suspense #52:The Crimson Dynamo Strikes Again!
Cover Date: Apr 1964 | Review: 3.75 StarsCan the cover be right, can the hero gone good, the crimson Dynamo turn against Iron Man, and what of this new menace, the black widow? all these questions are addressed in Tales Of Suspense #52, the comic book that I read for this comic book review. But before I even start writing all the…
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Tales Of Suspense #51:Tales Of The Watcher:The Primitive!
Cover Date: Mar 1964 | Review: 3 StarsNow I move on to another inspired story in the “Tales Of The Watcher” series. This one, as told from the watcher, is of a human space explorer, seeking out intelligent life, and from planet to planet he finds nothing but lower life forms, be them animals or just primitives, and concludes that these lower forms have nothing…
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Tales Of Suspense #51:The Sinister Scarecrow
Cover Date: Mar 1964 | Review: 4 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read The Iron Man story published in Tales Of Suspense #51, titled “The Sinister Scarecrow“. In this issue, we have the origin of a new, and strange menace known as the Scarecrow, whose life of crime leads him right into the path of Iron Man as he robs tony stark’s…
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Tales Of Suspense #50:Tales Of… The Watcher! Journey’s End
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 3.25 StarsToday’s review focuses on the Tales of The Watcher from Tales Of Suspense #50. In this tale, titled Journey’s end, we here the wondrous story of a Meek Man from the 21st century. The tale of one space pilot named Wilbur Weems. Weems volunteers for a one way mission in space, as he see’s that unlike his pears he has no reason…
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Tales Of Suspense #50:The Hands Of The Mandarin
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 2.5 Starsfor today’s comic book review I read the tale titled “The Hands Of The Mandarin” from Tales Of Suspense #50. In this classic comic book we have Iron Man face to face with the Mandarin for the first time. but does the story live up to the legacy that would follow from it? Story The story for this…
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Tales Of Suspense #49:Tales Of The Watcher: The Saga Of The Sneepers
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 4.25 StarsThis story, much like the one by the wasp reviewed yesterday is framing a tale around the words of the Watcher. This tale, the tale of the Sneepers, Earths greatest and unmet rivals from afar, is a great one to start these tales with. to summarize the story, the Sneepers are an advanced race of conquers and slavers, whom…
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Tales Of Suspense #49:Meets The Angel!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 1.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review I set out to read and review the Iron Man story from Tales Of Suspense #49. Hoping for an action pack story, filled with everything one could want, and even from the cover I knew that Iron Man would be up against another hero, X-men’s Angel. Leaving me to wonder…
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Tales Of Suspense #48:The Mysterious Mr. Doll
Cover Date: Dec 1963 | Review: 3.5 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Tales Of Suspense #48 where The New Iron Man Battles… The Mysterious Mr. Doll, in a “Book-length Marvel Masterwork!”. But is this issue, that reveals an all new Iron Man a classic or just an old relic? and what of the less than ominous sounding Mr. Doll? is he a menace that invokes fear,…
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Tales Of Suspense #47:Iron Man Battles The Melter!
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 3.25 StarsToday I sit down to read and review Tales Of Suspsnse #47, where we have the tale of “Iron Man Battles The Melter!“. In this story, we have Iron Man facing a menace that seems to be able to defeat Iron Man, with the ease of just quickly melting away his armor. But does the Melter make…