Comics Corner: Tales Of Suspense 52

Title: Marvel Spotlight

Issue Number:52

Release Date:April 1984

Highlights

• First appearance of Black Widow, Valeria Reynolds, Widow Wentworth, Crimson Dynamo / Boris Turgenov, Great Kamir, Hugo the assistant and Kent Bentley
• Appearances by Iron Man / Tony Stark, Crimson Dynamo / Anton Vanko, Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts and Watcher
• Special appearance by Nikita Khruschev
• Death of Boris Turgenov and Anton Vanko

Low Points

• Not the Black Widow that many will recognize, know and love
• Second story is unrelated to Iron Man or Black Widow
• Uninspiring and boring story

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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Comics Corner: Tales Of Suspense 39

Title: Tales Of Suspense

Issue Number: 39

Release Date: May 1962

Highlights

• First appearance of Tony Stark / Iron Man, Wong-Chu, Adam and Eve, Yinsen and Gundar
• Original silver armor
• Tony Stark trips on a booby trap wire, causing his injuries, the shrapnel moving closer and closer to his heart, and imprisonment by Wong-Chu
• Wong-Chu wants Stark to build him a weapon, but instead he builds his first Iron Man suit
• Death of Yinsen

Low Points

• Iron Man's story is one of three, and the other two are unrelated

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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