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    Tales of Suspense #50

    Tales of Suspense » Tales of Suspense #50 - The Hands Of The Mandarin released by Marvel on February 1, 1964.

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    "Look you weak apology for Genghis Khan" Damn, Mandarin may need to visit a burn center after that.

    Spoilers ahead!

    This is without a doubt my favorite issue since #39, easily. Happy Hogan punches out a jerk and gets a date with Pepper! Yeah I know that doesn't really matter but it was actually handled quickly and I have been really wondering where that relationship was heading.

    Onto the show stealer here, THE MANDARIN! At first he talks in third person and feels like Dr. Doom but then Iron man shows up and the fight and back forth between them is sweeter than icing. The insults they sling around aged pretty well all things considered and finally Iron Man didn't win because he was the hero and that is how it always is. No, he won because Mandarin was outclassed. Hopelessly outclassed, so, how did they even have a fair fight? Well, Mandarin played some fantastic mind games.

    Tony still feels a little, well, dull. I keep on waiting for a real reason why he HAS to be Iron man why he is IRON MAN! It just hasn't happend yet.

    On the art side of things Don Heck is fantastic.. not really feeling his rendition of the mark III yet though.

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    5/5. Oh and.. for your enjoyment, the burn of the century..

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    The back ups were weak. Something about the watcher again that was really silly and then some dude became fictional apparently? I don't really know.

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      Tales of Suspense #50 - The Hands Of The Mandarin by otoboke on October 12, 2011

      So after the stunningly good looking redesign and overhaul of Iron Man and his comic last month, this time around we see Stark veteran at this point Don Heck take back the reigns as chief artist, and the result is unsurprisingly more moody and harsher than Ditko's. The story too is a little more understated and serial, which too often has been the staple of this series, and not to great effect. This month we have the Mandarin—a oriental sorcerer of sorts that uses magic rings to do crazy things ...

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