(May 1964)

Marvel, 1959 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1964-02-04
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Vista Publications Inc.
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Printer
The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

On the Trail of the Human Top! (Table of Contents)

Giant-Man and the Wasp / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Sol Brodsky
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Genre
superhero
Characters
Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Human Top [Dave Cannon]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

On the Trail of the Human Top! (Table of Contents: 1)

Giant-Man and the Wasp / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Dick Ayers (credited)
Inks
Dick Ayers (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
At their New York lab, Giant-Man and the Wasp show their local fan club a...
Feature Logo
Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp
Genre
superhero
Characters
Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Human Top [Dave Cannon]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
Synopsis
The Human Top breaks out of prison. Giant-Man and the Wasp have to get him back. The Top uses Giant-Man's capsules to become giant and captures the Wasp, but Giant-Man distracts him while the Wasp frees herself and termites make the Top fall through a roof, allowing his recapture.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The Human Top last appears in issue #51 (January 1964) and next appears in issue #55 (May 1964).

The Treasure! (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
[G-980]
Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish
Synopsis
A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Continues from last issue. Printed between the pages of the Giant-Man story.

Two More Triumphs for Marvel..! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Gypsy's Secret! (Table of Contents: 4)

Wasp / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Larry Lieber (credited as L. D. Lieber) (script)
Pencils
Larry Lieber (credited as L. D. Lieber)
Inks
George Roussos (credited as George Bell)
Colors
?
Letters
Morrie Kuramoto (credited as Sherigail)

Job Number
X601
First Line of Dialogue or Text
We open with a typically peaceful, harmonious scene in Giant-Man's laboratory...
Feature Logo
The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale
Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Henry Pym (framing sequence); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (narrator); Gorko; Baron Radzic
Synopsis
A cruel baron tries to force a gypsy to give him the secret of turning lead into gold, but the gypsy is really an alien looking for a human specimen for a zoo on his homeworld.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Kuramoto credit per Nick Caputo, April 2013. Previous indexer credited Ray Holloway. Nick notes that based upon an examination of the lettering styles Ray Holloway has been incorrectly identified as using the pseudonym "Sherigail". The name was derived from Morrie Kuramoto's wife and daughter, Gail and Sherry, as noted here:

http://www.nyu-apastudies.org/new/larryhama/?p=129

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. On the Trail of the Human Top!
    Giant-Man and the Wasp
  2. 1. On the Trail of the Human Top!
    Giant-Man and the Wasp
  3. 2. The Treasure!
  4. 3. Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!
  5. 4. The Gypsy's Secret!
    Wasp
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Chris Boyko
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Pierre Freyssonnet
  • Del Gruber
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mark Q
  • Jim Van Dore