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PART TWO Of TALES OF SUSPENSE COVER GALLERY...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Well, folks, here we are again, this time with a belated part two of our TALES OF SUSPENSE cover gallery - featuring ten, count 'em - ten great covers from the dawn of the MARVEL AGE.  I'm familiar with a few of these INVINCIBLE IRON MAN images from when they adorned the covers of a British weekly periodical called FANTASTIC, published by ODHAMS PRESS in the late 1960s, but it's great to see the originals.

Some of them look a little rushed to me, but JACK KIRBY was pencilling almost everything that Marvel was producing at this time, so, given his workload, it's understandable.  Look at #52 - The CRIMSON DYNAMO looks like a midget compared to Iron Man, but the size of characters in relation to one another was never Jack's strong point.  My favourite cover out of the bunch is, in fact, #57 by DON HECK - although it's actually a makeshift one consisting of 'cut-ups' from some of the story's interior panels.

Know something?  If Marvel were to republish these comics tomorrow as single issues, I'd buy 'em before any contemporary comic, even though I already have several reprints of each one.  Just what does that tell you about modern comics?  Answers on a postcard please.  (Or you can use the comments section.)