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    Tales of Suspense » Tales of Suspense #48 - The Mysterious Mr. Doll released by Marvel on December 1, 1963.

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    YOU WASTED IT ALL, MR. DOLL!

    Beware of the spoilers ahead.

    In this issue Tony debuts his Mark III suit! Finally he isn't wearing a clunky bright golden bullet looking armor! Now he has a nice red and yellow suit. Slim and this one doesn't look awful. Want to know why he really changed to the Mark III though? "So I can inspire fear into the hearts of criminals!".. Settle down, Tony. No one has even started comparing you to Batman. (Thats a joke BTW) but yeah, the new suit is a lot cooler and honestly does make a lot more sense.

    Onto the villain though... he's lame. So he is just a regular guy with a voodoo doll from Africa. (In my heart I like to think this story inspired a fantastic Black Panther story about an ancient Wakandan artifact) If you make the doll look like someone else and hurt it then it'll hurt the person it looks like. Simple stuff. But does Mr. Doll straight up kill Iron Man? No. He just messes around with him. I get that you can't kill Iron Man but either way it made Mr. Doll look lame as hell.

    Ditko's new Iron Man suit was a great development but Pepper and Hogan are still much more interesting than Tony which is not good for Tony.

    2/5.

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      Tales of Suspense #48 - The Mysterious Mr. Doll by otoboke on September 15, 2011

      Having taken the reigns at least temporarily from Tales of Suspense's chief artist Don Heck, Steve Ditko in his second issue here redesigns Heck's original creation and gives him more spark, more punch and a greater ability to emote. It's the main reason that this issue (in which Ditko is seemingly given much greater control than his last) reads so well—it bounces off the page and yet seems to exist in its own fantastical, deranged and secluded world. Pitting Iron Man up against his toughest foe...

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