Tales of Suspense Vol 1 62

Tales of Suspense Vol 1 #62

February, 1965

Editor-in-Chief

Stan Lee

Cover Artists

Jack Kirby
Vince Colletta

Publisher

Marvel Comics

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Appearing in "The Origin of the Mandarin!"

Featured Characters:

• Iron Man

Supporting Characters:

• Bill (Single appearance)
• Dave (Single appearance)

Adversaries:

•  Mandarin  (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Makluans (Only in flashback)
  • Axonn-Karr  (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• The Red Chinese Army
• Mandarin's father (Only in flashback) (Death)
• Mandarin's aunt (Only in flashback)
• Fu Manchu (Mentioned)
• Mao Tse Tung (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Earth
  • The People's Republic of China
    • Valley of Spirits
      • Mandarin's Castle
  • Pacific Ocean
• Maklu-4 (Only in flashback)

Items:

• Iron Man Armor MK III
• Makluan Power Rings
• Axonn-Karr's Makluan Starship (First appearance)
  
  

Synopsis for "The Origin of the Mandarin!"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

  Appearing in "Break-Out in Cell Block 10!"

Featured Characters:

•  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 

Adversaries:

• Escaping convicts
  • Deacon  (First appearance)
  • "Thumper" Morgan  (First appearance).
  • Blackie
  • Rocky

Other Characters:

• Acting Superintendent Carlson
• Iron Man (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Ryker's Island

Items:

• Captain America's Shield
  
  

Synopsis for "Break-Out in Cell Block 10!"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Notes

• Captain America story is reprinted in Captain America (Pocket Books), Essential Captain America #1, and Giant-Size Captain America #1.

• "Thumper" Morgan and Deacon will next appear in Captain America #260, a sequel to this issue Cap story. Also in that issue, Cell Block 10 is determined to be on Ryker's Island.

• Iron Man last appeared in Tales of Suspense #61 (Last Issue); He appears next in Tales of Suspense #63 (Next Issue).

• The Mandarin last appeared in Tales of Suspense #61 (Last Issue); He appears next in Fantastic Four Annual #3, at the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm.

• The first page states that Marvel decided to write the origin of The Mandarin after receiving more than 500 requests for it.

• This issue is reprinted in other comics and books, see references for more info.

• We learn in the Captain America story that at some point, Captain America threw away the magnetic equipment Iron Man put on his shield from Avengers #6.

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Trivia

• No trivia.

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See Also

• Discuss Tales of Suspense Vol 1 62 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Tales of Suspense series

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Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

• None.