Tales of Suspense #79, July 1966 [published 12 Apr 66]

Nice inking on the cover by Jack Abel.

Iron Man: “Disaster!” - Script: Stan Lee; Art: Gene Colan; Inking: Jack Abel; Lettering: Art Simek

I think it was mandated that Iron Man somehow had to appear on the splash page. Hasn’t Marvel grown beyond that?

We continue with mundane scenes in overlarge panels.

Gene’s extra-large panels did give Stan room to write a bit of introspection for Tony Stark.

Tony’s recharging set-up looks a little bit different here.

Page 5: this story seems to be happening concurrently with The Avengers #29.

This story certainly has slow pacing.

This story is so bland that the cover had to be based on the final panel. *SIGH!*

Capt. America: “The Red Skull Lives!” - Script: Stan Lee; Art: Jack Kirby; Inking: Frank Giacoia; Lettering: Art Simek

Giacoia’s inks have looked a little extra-heavy lately.

Page 4: Horst and Wolfgang, huh? Oh well, it’s better than Hansel and Gretel.

Page 5: There is a Red Skull/“Them” connection (so, therefore, there will soon be a Captain America/S.H.I.E.L.D. connection).

Cap takes a page from Spider-Man’s notebook and visits a shrink to see about his hallucinations.

Page 8: as predicted, the Captain America/S.H.I.E.L.D. connection grows as we see Count Bornag Royale and have our first glimpse of the Cosmic Cube (oops, was I supposed to say the Tesseract?).

Adding the old veteran was a nice touch.

Anarchy and Chaos are the natural state of the human race. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And Chaos must always ultimately triumph.