*Marvel: A major addition to Shell-Head’s Rogue’s Gallery premiered this issue, as Iron Man met for the first time the malevolent Melter, a villain custom designed to neutralise the powers and weapons of the Armoured Avenger! For a one-note villain, Bruno Horgan had a surprisingly long shelf life, becoming a perennial member of the Masters of Evil and racking up dozens of appearances before being bumped off, unceremoniously, in a massacre of villains by Scourge in the pages of Captain America. Typically, Marvel declined to let the name rest, and several other people have claimed the title of Melter, but this one was the first of the ‘legacy’! This copy is FN+, with minimal spine wear, but firm staples and that peculiar ‘midnight blue’ background Marvel favoured in their early years vivid and unfaded.
PICTURED: TALES OF SUSPENSE #47 FN+ p £160