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Series: Marvel Tales Annual

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Marvel Tales Annual
Issue: 1
Page Count: 72
Publish Date: [September] 1964
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Marvel Tales Annual 1
Owner: pdxcomicfan503

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Thor [Thor Odinson; Donald Blake]; Sergeant Nick Fury; Iron Man [Tony Stark]


Story Title: Spider-Man - comic story
Pages:11
Genre:superhero
Characters:Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (introduction, origin); Ben Parker (introduction); Crusher Hogan; Flash Thompson (introduction); Liz Allen (introduction); May Parker (introduction); the Burglar
Synopsis:Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains the abilities of a spider. When he fails to stop a burglar who runs past him, his uncle is killed as a result. He therefore swears never to shirk his responsibility again.


Story Title: The Coming of the Hulk - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:Hulk [Bruce Banner] (introduction, origin); Rick Jones (introduction); Betty Ross (introduction); Thunderbolt Ross [Thaddeus E. Ross] (introduction); Igor (introduction)
Synopsis:Scientist Bruce Banner saves a young boy from being killed by a nuclear blast but absorbs deadly amounts of gamma radiation which transforms him into a monster dubbed the Hulk. Bruce Banner is scientist by day, but transforms into the Hulk once the sun goes down.


Story Title: Return of the Ant-Man - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Ant-Man [Henry Pym] (origin, first appearance as Ant-Man); Nikita Krushchev (first appearance, without naming)
Synopsis:Henry Pym, having created the serum to shrink, has become a student of ants. The government hired Henry Pym and his lab to create a gas that serves to immunize people against radiation. The Russians send some spies to seize it, kidnapping the scientists. Henry eludes them by shrinking himself once again. Thanks to the help of the ants, Pym manages to stop the Russian spies and save the scientists. Later he returns to his office to avoid anyone noticing his absence. In this way the Ant-Man acts for the first time as such, without anyone knowing.


Story Title: The Birth of Giant-Man - comic story
Pages:2
Genre:superhero
Characters:Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (first appearance as Giant-Man); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
Synopsis:Henry Pym develops capsules that permit him to become giant-size as well as ant-size.


Story Title: Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandoes - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:war
Characters:Sergeant Nick Fury (first appearance); the Howling Commandos [Corporal Dum Dum Dugan (first appearance); Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston](first appearance); Jonathan "Junior" Juniper (first appearance); Gabe Jones (first appearance); Izzy Cohen (first appearance); Dino Manelli (first appearance)]; Captain Happy Sam Sawyer (first appearance)
Synopsis:The Commandos are ordered to rescue the Underground leader, captured by the nazis, before he reveals the date of D-Day.


Story Title: Meet the Gang in the Merry Marvel Bullpen - text article
Pages:2
Pencils:? (photo)
Inks:? (photo)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Iron Man Is Born - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Iron Man [Tony Stark] (introduction, origin); Wong-Chu (villain, introduction); Professor Yinsen (introduction, death)
Synopsis:Playboy industrialist and weapons designer Tony Stark is injured in Vietnam and captured by communists. While pretending to build a weapon for his captors he builds a suit of battle armor to keep his injured heart beating and uses it to escape and beat the communist commander.


Story Title: How Iron Man Created His New Thinner Uniform - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:superhero
Characters:Iron Man [Tony Stark]


Story Title: The Stone Men from Saturn! - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Thor [Doctor Donald Blake; Thor Odinson] (introduction, origin); Gorr; Kronans; Korg
Synopsis:A lame doctor vacationing in Norway runs across an alien invasion. While hiding from the aliens in a cave he finds an old cane that transforms him into the god Thor. Thor drives back the alien invasion.


Story Title: "See Us All In Our Own Marvel Mags" - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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