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Hooray! Arrived today, my Facsimile Edition of Tales Of Suspense #39 - the debut and origin of The Invincible Iron Man! I love these comics, but a few things niggle me. First of all, the bar code box is unnecessarily big, obscuring too much of that iconic cover. It's been smaller on some previous facsimiles and could (and should) have been smaller on this one.
Inside, the indicia has been printed under the splash page instead of below the ad on the inside front cover. The splash now contains a warning that 'This comic is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated depictions.' This would've been better placed as part of the indicia, instead of being imposed onto the published artwork and compromising the archival integrity of the material.
Another thing I've noticed in most of these facsimiles is that the image is often positioned too high on the page, leaving a bigger margin under the art than above. I suspect this is caused by most reprint pages being first prepared for book collections, which usually have a new page number under each image. When this is removed for single issue reprints (on account of it not appearing in the original comic), it leaves the lower margin too high. (Though, strangely, the other two tales in the mag are better positioned in this regard.) You'd think they'd compensate for this and lower the image for a better balance of top and bottom margins.
Those small niggles aside, it's great to see this iconic issue being re-presented as an individual magazine for a new audience, though there's bound to be a posse of older readers coming along for the ride. Below is my original copy of TOS #39 alongside its facsimile. Make Mine Marvel!
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