(March 1964)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in December 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Terrific! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #30 (4 November 1967)
Trapped by the Porcupine!
Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Sol Brodsky
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek ?; Sam Rosen ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Terrific! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #29 (28 October 1967)
- in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)
Indexer Notes
Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. Simek lettering added by Nick Caputo, Jan 2012, who believes the index to be in error.
Trapped by the Porcupine!
Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp / comic story / 18 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number:
- X-583
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]
- Synopsis:
- The Porcupine uses Giant-Man's fan club to attack him and then he captures the Wasp. He uses the Wasp to lead him back to Giant-Man and attacks. He snatches Giant-Man's size-changing capsules, but takes the shrinking capsules and shrinks to nothingness.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)
Indexer Notes
Porcupine last appears in issue #48 (October 1963), he next appears in a cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (1965), before appearing in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966).
The Clock
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- [K-9]
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt
- Synopsis:
- An old clockmaker nearly dies from the cold, but is saved by the wooden figures adorning his clocks, which he has given parts of his own soul.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #148 (July 1956)
When Wakes the Colossus!
The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale / comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Larry Lieber
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ray Holloway
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (narrator); Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo); Mingo; Vikor; Colossus
- Synopsis:
- An alien warlord builds a giant statue to intimidate the superstitious, but it comes to life and takes the side of the rebels against him.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967)
- in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002)
- in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn] (2010)
- Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)
Indexer Notes
Erroneous "George Roussos [as George Bell]" credit removed by Stephane Petit via the GCD Errors list, February 2010.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
Trapped by the Porcupine!
Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp -
2.
The Clock
-
3.
When Wakes the Colossus!
The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Patrick Lemaire
- Ethan Hoddes
- Jim Van Dore
- Pierre Freyssonnet
- Nick Caputo
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Klein
- Martin O'Hearn
- Tony R. Rose
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