Iron Man and Sub-Mariner is a one-shot comic book published by Marvel Comics in 1968. In the American Comic book industry the term one-shot is used to denote a pilot comic or a stand-alone story created to last as one issue A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc It is notable for being the first Marvel title to be intentionally published for only one issue, as it existed to use up two half-length stories left over after Marvel began its expansion and the characters were to be given their own solo titles.
Iron Man and Sub-Mariner does not feature a team-up of the title characters, nor a complete story for either. The Iron Man tale is continued from Tales of Suspense #99 (March 1968) and continues in Iron Man #1 (May 1968). Iron Man is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. Tales of Suspense is the name of an American Comic book series and two one-shot comics published by Marvel Comics. The Sub-Mariner story continues from Tales to Astonish #101 (March 1968), and continues in Sub-Mariner #1 (May 1968). Tales to Astonish is the name of two American Comic book series and a one-shot comic published by Marvel Comics.
The stories were: an 11-page Iron Man tale, "The Torrent Without, The Tumult Within", credited to Stan Lee and Archie Goodwin as writers, with art by penciler Gene Colan and inker Johnny Craig, a former EC Comics great; and an 11-page Sub-Mariner story, "Call Him Destiny, or Call Him Death", credited to Lee and Roy Thomas as writers, with art by Colan and inker Frank Giacoia. Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American Writer, editor, creator of comic book characters Archie Goodwin ( September 8, 1937 &ndash March 1, 1998) was an American Comic book writer editor and artist A penciller (or penciler) is one of a number of types of Artists working within the Comic book industry Eugene "Gene" Colan (born September 1, 1926) is an American comic book artist. The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional Comic book, or Graphic novel. Jonathan T "Johnny" Craig (born April 25 1926, Pleasantville New York; died September 13, 2001) a Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American Publisher of Comic books specializing in Crime fiction, Roy Thomas (born November 22 1940, Missouri, United States) is a Comic book Writer and editor, and Frank Giacoia ( July 6, 1924 - February 4, 1988) is an American Comic book Artist known primarily as an The latter tale retold the Sub-Mariner's origin and introduced the supervillain Destiny. A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the Villain character type commonly found in Comic books, Action movies and
At least one previous Marvel title had lasted only one issue, though unintentionally: the predecessor company Timely Comics' August 1940 title Red Raven Comics, which because of low sales became Human Torch Comics with #2, dropping all features from the debut issue. Timely Comics is the 1940s Comic book Publishing company that would evolve into first Atlas Comics, and then Marvel Comics Red Raven is a fictional Comic-book Superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. The Human Torch is a Fictional character, a Marvel Comics -owned Superhero.