Greatest Comic Covers # 23
Amazing Armor, It’s Iron Man
Back in the early 1960s, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and others were blazing new trails in comic history as they were ushering in what would be known as The Marvel Age of Comics. Their creativity and output was at a peak, and numerous classic characters broke onto the scene, changing comic books forever!
At the time, Marvel published several weird tales/fantasy/science fiction comics. Among those titles was Tales of Suspense, an anthology series comprised of short stories usually dealing with a monster or other supernatural theme. Well, with great characters like The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man forming the cornerstone of the Marvel Universe, the wizards at Marvel decided to create a new hero for Tales of Suspense – The Invincible Iron Man!
So since Iron Man will enjoy a major movie release in just a few weeks on May 2nd, I decided to feature Tales of Suspense #39 in the Greatest Comic Covers series. That’s the origin and 1st appearance of Iron Man!
Also of interest:
HMMM….isn’t Gigantor his cousin?
Apart from a casual resemblance, there is no family relation that I am aware!
Fred Ladd gave birth to Gigantor in NYC in 1963. When was Iron Man born?
Iron Man debuted in Tales of Suspense #39, dated March 1963! ;-)
I like him. My son loved the Iron Man comics. My son loved Gigantor on TV like mad. He called Hercules perkincheese because he couldn’t say Hercules. Hahahaha. That son will be fifty years in age in Jan. 2013. Time flies, so did the Superheroes.