Dates
- Cover date
- January 1964
- On sale
- October 8, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #49 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
- The New Iron Man "Meets the Angel!" · 18 pages
The Angel is affected by an atomic test done at one of Stark's weapons plants. His personality is altered and now he wants to join the Evil Mutants. The X-Men call the Avengers for help but only Iron Man is available.
- Strange Encounter · 2 pages
An American tourist in Paris is unwittingly targeted by a spy as an intelligence courier and is nearly killed.
- The Saga of the Sneepers! · 5 pages
An alien race watches humanity's progress, worried that they will one day overtake them. With the invention of the atomic bomb and the Cold War, they decide that humanity will wipe itself out before it poses a threat.
Characters
Reprinted in
The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (2008), Spider-Man Comics Weekly (1973), Mystic (1960), Weird Planets (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (1965), Fantastic! (1967), Giant-Size Iron Man (1975), 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), Marvel Firsts: The 1960s (2011), Iron Man Epic Collection (2013), Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (2014), Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Rarities (2014), X-Men: Children of the Atom (2019)