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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published September 1964
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in June 1964. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Hawkeye"

Characters Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff]
Genre superhero
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Essential Iron Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white); in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2004); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)

18 page Iron Man story "Hawkeye, the Marksman!"

Characters Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton] (introduction, origin); Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff]; Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan
Synopsis A carnival marksman tries to become a super-hero, but after a misunderstanding with the police he falls in with the Black Widow. Hawkeye attacks Iron Man at the Widow's request, but when he accidentally injures his partner in the fight he flees to get her to safety.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Black Widow last appears in issue #53 (May 1964), the Widow and Hawkeye next appear in issue #60 (December 1964).
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #17 (October 1968); in Giant-Size Iron Man (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (October 1975); in Thunderbolts (Marvel, 1997 series) #39 (June 2000); in Iron Man Essentials (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (2000) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 (2004); in Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)

1 page text story "The Runner"

Characters Mike; Hermes; Snaky Blake
Synopsis A chance encounter with Hermes teaches a boy how to run fast.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Continues next issue. Printed between the pages of the Iron Man story. Below the story is a teaser for the next issue: "Iron Man Battles Captain America Next Issue! Don't Miss It!"
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #26 (September 1955) [page 1]

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!"

Notes Advertises Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964) and Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964). Printed between the Iron Man story and the Tales of the Watcher story.

5 page Tales of the Watcher story "The Watcher's Power!"

Characters Watcher [Uatu]
Synopsis Space Pirates plan to attack a rich planet, thinking the Watcher will not interfere. They are destroyed, because they unknowingly targeted the Watcher's home world, the one planet that he can interfere with.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot), Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks George Roussos (as George Bell)
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #23 (October 1969); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #62 (August 21, 1973) [as "Il potere dell'Osservatore", Italian translation]