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| - Tales of Suspense Vol 1 39
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| Trivia
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| Letterer1
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| Inker1
| - Don Heck
- Steve Ditko
- Gene Colan
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| Recommended
| - * Tales of Suspense (Volume 1) through
* Iron Man Volume 1
* Iron Man Volume 2
* Iron Man Volume 3
* Iron Man Volume 4
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| Inker1
| - Don Heck
- Steve Ditko
- Gene Colan
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| Editor-in-Chief
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| Writer1
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| Penciler1
| - Don Heck
- Steve Ditko
- Gene Colan
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| Colourist1
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| Writer1
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| StoryTitle
| - Gundar!
- Iron Man Is Born!
- The Last Rocket!
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| Editor1
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| Penciler1
| - Don Heck
- Steve Ditko
- Gene Colan
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| Appearing
| - Featured Characters:
* Gundar
* Lars and his fellow Vikings
Supporting Characters:
* None
Adversaries:
* None
Other Characters:
* Gundar the Viking captain
Locations:
* An unnamed island
Items:
* None
Vehicles:
* Gundar's Viking ship
- Featured Characters:
* Adam
* Eve
Supporting Characters:
* None
Adversaries:
* None
Other Characters:
* Adam and Eve's neighbors
Locations:
*
Items:
* None
Vehicles:
* Evacuation rocket ships
- Featured Characters:
*
Supporting Characters:
*
Adversaries:
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* Wong-Chu's Red Guerillas
Other Characters:
* South Vietnamese villagers
* Tony Stark's admirers
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** Unnamed officer
** Unnamed soliders
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** Unnamed general
Locations:
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** French Riviera
* "US Defense Perimeter"
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Items:
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* Iron Man's tools
** Suction Cups
** Magnetic Turbo-Insulator
** Miniature buzz saw
** Miniature flamethrower
* Lightweight mortars
Vehicles:
*
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| Editor1
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| Speaker
| - [[W:C:marvel:Anthony Stark
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| Links
| - * Iron Man biography page at Marvel Universe
* Iron Man article at Wikipedia
* Iron Man biography page at the Marvel Directory
* Tales of Suspense #39 entry at Grand Comics Database Project
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| Synopsis
| - In a closely guarded lab, Anthony 'Tony' Stark shows off a new invention to US military defense officials. He has developed transistorized magnets that are super-powerful; strongthumb enough to pull open a thick metal door from a distance. They increase magnetic force a thousandfold! Stark impresses the military brass with his new inventions, while at the same time impressing the ladies of the international jet set with his dashing good looks and incredible personal wealth.
Across the globe, the evil Red tyrant Wong-Chu takes over another small village in Vietnam, defeating its strongest men in contests of judo. Meanwhile, Tony Stark has arrived in Vietnam to observe the testing of one of his new inventions for the US military. Accompanying a squad of soldiers equipped with his weaponry on a patrol through the jungle, he accidentally triggers a tripwire that detonates a landmine. The wounded Stark is captured by Wong-Chu’s forces and taken to their nearby headquarters. Wong-Chu realizes his prisoner is a "famous Yankee inventor" and decides that he will put him to work in service of the Communist insurgency even though doctors determine the young inventor only has days to live before "shrapnel reaches his heart."
Wong-Chu declares that he will have a surgeon save Stark’s life if he will agree to develop new high-tech weapons for him. Stark agrees, but only in order to try and save his own life with his technical abilities. Given access to scrap metal and tools, Stark promises he will deliver a "fantastic weapon," but sets out in building a mechanism that will help stop the shrapnel from penetrating his heart. He is given an assistant named Professor Yinsen, a famous physicist whom Stark had read about while in college. Working together, the two finalize work on Stark's project: an iron body suit with a chest plate that will keep the shrapnel at bay through use of transistor-powered magnets.
Just as Stark has donned the life-saving suit and begun to power it with electrical current from a generator, Wong-Chu senses something amiss and comes in to check on him. Professor Yinsen rushes out into the hallway shouting at Wong-Chu and is shot dead by armed guards, buying the precious seconds Stark needed to fully charge the armor. Tony Stark, as Iron Man, hears the murder of his friend and swears he will avenge his death. He tries to rise and steady himself in the Iron Man armor, but discovers it is like learning to walk again. He quickly gets the hang of operating the armor and evades detection from Wong-Chu by leaping to the ceiling and holding himself there using suction cups. After the tyrant leaves the room, he heads outside to "amuse himself" with his "favorite sport": terrorizing the local villagers.
Iron Man descends from the ceiling and finds a coat and hat, with which to covers his armor, and wanders outside to find Wong-Chu tossing people around in the judo arena. Iron Man challenges Wong-Chu, then takes off his coat and hat to reveal the shocking visage of Iron Man! The metal monster walks up to Wong-Chu, picks him up, and twirls him around before tossing him into the brush. Wong-Chu demands that his guards open fire on Iron Man, but the bullets just bounce off the armored figure’s metal chest plate. Iron Man then uses "reverse magnetism" to redirect the bullets back at his opponents. Iron Man chases Wong-Chu to a nearby building where the Communist menace fells him with a file cabinet loaded with rocks.
Wong-Chu escapes to order the execution of all his prisoners, but Iron Man, low on energy and too weak to continue pursuit, uses his armor’s lubrication system to launch a stream of oil towards an ammunition depot near the fleeing Wong-Chu. He then sets fire to the oil stream using a miniature torch in one of the armor's gauntlets, causing the ammo dump to explode, and seemingly killing Wong-Chu. His batteries now recharged, Iron Man dons his coat and hat and walks away into the jungle.
- A man is lost at sea in a small boat when he sees an island in the distance. He lands to find the island inhabited by Vikings awaiting the coming of Gundar, "the cruelest, most hated captain of all!"
Centuries ago, Gundar was ambushed by his men, thrown into a boat, and left out to sea. As he stood there, he cursed them with immortality to Odin, never to leave the cursed island they were to find themselves stranded on until is return.
After the Vikings tell the man their story, they begin to vanish one by one believing Odin had forgiven them. The man is then found to be a descendant of Gundar and is soon rescued by ship.
- A married couple refuses to leave the planet with everyone else when their sun starts to burn out. After the last rocketship leaves orbit, there is a giant flash of light and a new sun forms behind the old one. They pledge to start the human race anew as a breed that will love the the planet as they love it. It is then we find that they are Adam and Eve.
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| Notes
| - * Wong-Chu appears next in .
* Professor Yinsen appears next in
* The lightweight mortars Tony Stark designed for the US Army look like M-79 grenade launchers.
* "Iron Man is Born!" is reprinted in
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** Sons of Origins of Marvel Comics
** Marvel Masterworks (1st Edition) Volume 20
** Marvel Milestone Edition: Tales of Suspense #39
** Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man Volume 1.
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* "The Last Rocket!" is reprinted in Marvel Milestone Edition: Tales of Suspense #39 .
* "Gundar!" is reprinted in:
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** Marvel Milestone Edition: Tales of Suspense #39
** Marvel Milestones: Iron Man
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| - Have you never seen an Iron Man before?!
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