Downey's Meal Ticket
Tales of Suspense 56
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Tales of Suspense 56 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Pacific Coast
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Certification #:
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3834117002
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #56 features the first appearance of the Unicorn and cameos by the Avengers and FF. The Unicorn was Milos Masaryk, an ex-Soviet intelligence agent assigned to security duty at the private laboratory of inventor Anton Vanko. Vanko was engaged in the development of advanced technological weaponry and armament. His first completed project was a full body suit of armor, which he himself would later wear as the Soviet operative code-named the Crimson Dynamo. His second finished project was a helmet and harness into which offensive radiation-beam weaponry called a "power horn" was integrated. Vanko offered this invention to Masaryk, and with government approval, began to instruct the Soviet agent on its use.
Some time after Professor Vanko defected to America, the Soviet government dispatched Masaryk to avenge the disgrace caused by the inventor. Masaryk was given a special, heavily insulated costume and code-named the Unicorn because of the head-mounted discharge cone of the weapons system he wore. The Unicorn confronted Iron Man, the person instrumental in getting Vanko to defect, and coerced him into accompanying him back to the Soviet Union where the secrets of Iron Man's armor could be unlocked. Iron Man escaped, however, and permitted the enemy agent to go free.
Our WP 9.6 comes from the legendary Pacific Coast Collection and is tied for second highest graded trailing a single 9.8. The Pacific Coast Collection is considered to be the greatest Silver Age collection to ever surface. It was brought to market by Robert Roter after he discovered portions of it for sale on eBay in 1999. The books were marketed through PCE over the next several years and contained over 7,000 comics and magazines that included Marvel, DC, and Gold Key among others, covering a time span between 1961 and 1977. Many of the highest graded Marvel and DC issues from the early '60s hail from this collection with exceptional page quality. The books do not exhibit any distinguishing markings.
We acquired the book from the 2/25/2021 CL Auction.
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