Tales of Suspense #53 for Sale - First Appearance of Emnu - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #53
Publication date: May 1964
Key date: 1964-05-00
On-sale date: 1964-02-11
Indicia publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Emnu - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Ikor - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Black Widow Strikes Again!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen, Artie Simek	Black Widow, Iron Man, Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark
1	The Black Widow Strikes Again!	comic story	13	script: Stan Lee, N. Korok; pencils: Don Heck; inks: Don Heck; letters: S. Rosen	Black Widow, Crimson Dynamo, Happy Hogan, Iron Man, Nikita Khrushchev, Pepper Potts, Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark, Boris Turgenev
2	The Magician	text story	1	editing: Stan Lee	Howard; Uncle Bart
3	The Omen	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber; pencils: Larry Lieber; inks: Geo. Bell; letters: S. Rosen	Lokar
4	Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko; inks: George Roussos, Steve Ditko
5	The Way It Began...	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber; pencils: Larry Lieber; inks: Paul Reinman; letters: Art Simek	Emnu First, Ikor First, Uatu, The Watcher

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #9	1967	On eBay ›
Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #13	1968	On eBay ›
Essential Iron Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-0759-2	2000	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #2 ISBN 0-7851-1771-7	2005	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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