(July 1964)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1964-04-02
- 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 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
On the Trail of Spider-Man!
Giant-Man and the Wasp / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #2 (30 de septiembre de 1965) -
in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #37 (23 December 1967) -
in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white] -
in Biblioteca Marvel: Spiderman (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #4 (diciembre 2003) - in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([February] 2008)
- in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) ([November] 2010)
- in Marvel Gold. El Hombre Hormiga: ¡El Hombre en el Hormiguero! (Panini España, 2015 series) (Junio 2015)
- in Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Man in the Ant Hill (2015)
- in True Believers: Ant-Man and the Wasp -- On the Trail of Spider-Man (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (August 2018)
- in Decades: Marvel in the '60s - Spider-Man Meets the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Brodsky inks per Nick Caputo, January 2011, who notes the slick line is indicative of his work and is quite different from Stone's bolder line. Bob Bailey previously credited Chic Stone.
Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
![Cover Thumbnail for Tales to Astonish (1959 series) #57 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1437/w100/1437229.jpg?5460581271671760085)
On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man!
Giant-Man and the Wasp / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (credited)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)
- Job Number
- X-700
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jan, honey...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Egghead [Elihas Starr]; Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (also as Ant-Man); Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Egghead tricks Giant-Man into attacking Spider-Man in order to distract them while he robs an armored car. The Wasp realizes the trick, and the three of them capture Egghead together.
- Reprints
- in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #2 (30 de septiembre de 1965)
- in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #36 (16 December 1967), #37 (23 December 1967)
- in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #8 (December 1971) [- page 10 panels 2-5, page 11 panel 1 and page 14]
- in Spider-Man Annual (World Distributors, 1975 series) #1975 (1975)
-
in Captain America (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #18 - Les combattants de l'arène (septembre 1982) - in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #193 (janvier 1986)
- in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
- in Biblioteca Marvel: Spiderman (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #4 (diciembre 2003)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([February] 2008)
- in Marvel Gold. El Hombre Hormiga: ¡El Hombre en el Hormiguero! (Panini España, 2015 series) (Junio 2015)
- in Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Man in the Ant Hill (2015)
- in Decades: Marvel in the '60s - Spider-Man Meets the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Egghead last appears in issue #45 (July 1963) and next appears in #61 (November 1964).
A Voice in the Dark!
Wasp / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Larry Lieber (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Larry Lieber (credited)
- Inks
- Chic Stone (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)
- Job Number
- X-661
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fighting crime keeps the Wasp on the move, but not nearly as much as when...
- Feature Logo
The Wasp- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Henry Pym; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Wasp stops a thief by pretending to be the Invisible Girl.
- Reprints
- in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #2 (30 de septiembre de 1965)
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (January 1967)
- in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #41 (20 January 1968)
-
in HIP Classics (Classics/Williams, 1969 series) #19153 (1970) -
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #153 (1970) -
in Le Monstre de Frankenstein (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #1 (février 1973) - in Gamma la bombe qui a créé Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #16 - La créature du Loch (février 1982)
- in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([February] 2008)
- in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) ([November] 2010)
- in Marvel Gold. El Hombre Hormiga: ¡El Hombre en el Hormiguero! (Panini España, 2015 series) (Junio 2015)
- in Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Man in the Ant Hill (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
This is the first Wasp solo story.
Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Sol Brodsky; Steve Ditko
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen; Artie Simek; typeset
Indexer Notes
Advertises Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #28 (July 1964) and Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #14 (July 1964). Printed between the pages of the Wasp story.
The Balloon
text story / 1 page
- Job Number
- K-267
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Leroy; Zoop
- Synopsis
- A young boy meets a tiny space traveler from Skyville, a suburb of Mars, trapped in a balloon.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) [page 2] which is reprinted
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #6 (October 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Continues from last issue. Printed after the Wasp story. This is the last text story in Tales to Astonish.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
On the Trail of Spider-Man!
Giant-Man and the Wasp -
1.
On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man!
Giant-Man and the Wasp -
2.
A Voice in the Dark!
Wasp -
3.
Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!
-
4.
The Balloon
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bob Bailey
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Del Gruber
- Ethan Hoddes
- Lou Mazzella
- Darrel McCann
- Mark Q
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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