Dates
- Cover date
- June 1963
- On sale
- March 12, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #42 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators
Stories
- Trapped by the Red Barbarian · 13 pages
A Soviet spymaster sends a master of disguise to steal the design of Tony Stark's latest weapon. The Actor steals the plans and learns Iron Man's secret identity, but Iron Man regains the plans and tricks the communists into killing their own agent.
- Discovery · 2 pages
A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
- I Speak of the Haunted House! · 5 pages
Two friends make a bet about the existence of ghosts in a haunted house. The doubting friend thinks he saw no ghosts, but the house itself is a ghost.
- Escape into Space · 5 pages
A convict believes that he escaped his captors on a strange planet, but the plan all along was for him to serve his sentence there, thinking that he is free.
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Fantastic! (1967), The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (2008), Creepy Worlds (1962), Spider-Man Comics Weekly (1973), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Spellbound (1960), Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (1965), Pow! Annual (1967), The Avengers (1974), Star Wars Weekly (1978), Titan Pocket Book (1980), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Essential Iron Man (2000), Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (2003), Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (2010), Iron Man Epic Collection (2013), Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (2014), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)