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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published July 1964
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1964. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "On the Trail of Spider-Man!"

Characters Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chic Stone
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Inks (Chic Stone) credited by Bob Bailey, 2005-01-30; Inks previously credited to Sol Brodsky. (Per Sandell ed.). Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

16 page Giant-Man story "On The Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man"

Characters Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Egghead [Elihas Starr]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
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.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Paul Reinman
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Egghead last appears in issue #45 (July 1963) and next appears in #61 (November 1964).
Reprinted in Amazing Spider-Man Annual, The (Marvel, 1964 series) #8 (December 1971) [pp1–9, 11–13, 15, p16: panels 1–8]; in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

7 page The Wasp story "A Voice in the Dark!"

Characters Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Giant-Man [Hank Pym]
Synopsis The Wasp stops a thief by pretending to be the Invisible Girl.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks Chic Stone
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes This is the first Wasp solo story.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (January 1967); in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002); Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008); in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!"

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.

1 page text story "The Balloon"

Characters Leroy; Zoop
Synopsis A young boy meets a tiny space traveler from Skyville, a suburb of Mars, trapped in a balloon.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. Continues from last issue. Printed after the Wasp story. This is the last text story in Tales to Astonish.
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) [page 2]