Issue(s): Tales Of Suspense #44 (Iron Man story only)
Cover Date: Aug 63
Title: "The Mad Pharaoh!"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Plot
Robert Bernstein - Script
Don Heck - Penciler
Don Heck - Inker

Review/plot:
Bored of the action in his own time period, Iron Man travels back in time to bang Cleopatra.

Iron Man can't fly yet, so it's interesting to see him get around in bizarre ways like attaching an out-board motor to his foot to turn himself into a boat, or laying on tiny wheels and rolling around the desert.

Here is an ad that ran in Marvel comics around this time, with Iron Man front and center.

Quality Rating: D

Historical Significance Rating: 2

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Marvel Collector's Item Classics #7

I thought this a pretty good Silver Age story (willing to overlook Hatap's magic gimick which took him & Stark back 2,000 years) but the ending, with Hatap falling on his sword (and the attendant dialogue) was way too cheesy and I have to downgrade it for that. I'll be kind and give it a 3/5.

The title actually read "The Mad Pharoah," a misspelling that would recur 50-plus years later with a certain famous racehorse (American Pharoah).

This story and the Dr. Strange story "The Woman from Nowhere" were inspired by all the hoo ha about Liz Taylor's Cleopatra epic.