(March 1964)

Marvel, 1959 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1963-12-02
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 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:

Trapped by the Porcupine! (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
Sam Rosen
Genre
superhero
Characters
Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Porcupine [Alexander Gentry]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
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Indexer Notes

Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

Cover Thumbnail for Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #53 Cover Thumbnail for Tales to Astonish (1959 series) #53 [British]
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Trapped by the Porcupine! (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
Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)
Job Number
X-583
First Line of Dialogue or Text
At a nearby orphans' home, the colorful Giant-Man, aided by his lovely...
Feature Logo
Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp
Genre
superhero
Characters
Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (also in flashback as Ant-Man); Porcupine [Alexander Gentry] (also in flashback); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (also in flashback); Charlie
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.
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Keywords
Giant-Man Fan Club

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 (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
[K-9]
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The snow fell quietly in the little Alpine village, and Franz Ammergau sat...
Genre
fantasy-supernatural
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.
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When Wakes the Colossus! (Table of Contents: 3)

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
Don Heck (credited as D. Heck)
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway (credited as R. Holloway)
Job Number
X-541
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I thought you were going to the Veteran's Hospital, Jan, to entertain the...
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The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Characters
Henry Pym; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (narrator); 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.
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Indexer Notes

Erroneous "George Roussos [as George Bell]" credit removed by Stephane Petit via the GCD Errors list, February 2010.

Jon number revealed on original art: https://www.comicbookdaily.com/championing_comics/lart-pour-lart/web-arted…

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Trapped by the Porcupine!
    Giant-Man and the Wasp
  2. 1. Trapped by the Porcupine!
    Giant-Man and the Wasp
  3. 2. The Clock
  4. 3. When Wakes the Colossus!
    Wasp
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