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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published October 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in July 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Porcupine"

Characters Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alexander Gentry]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Sol Brodsky
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

13 page Ant-Man and the Wasp story "Ant-Man and the Wasp Defy the Porcupine!"

Characters Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; The Porcupine [Alex Gentry] (introduction, origin)
Synopsis The Porcupine decides to rob a burglar-proof bank designed by Henry Pym. So, on the day of its opening, Henry and Janet are there. They have to stop him as Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Ernest Hart (script) [as H.E. Huntley]
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

2 page text story "The Inventor"

Characters Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Synopsis A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (June 1955)

5 page story "Grayson's Gorilla!"

Characters Harvey Grayson
Synopsis A scientist tries to give himself the strength of a gorilla for his own ends. He switches bodies with one instead, and the newly human gorilla sends him to the zoo.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks Matt Fox
Letters Artie Simek
Notes This is a retelling of "I Am The Gorilla-Man" drawn by Jack Kirby in issue #28 (February 1962).
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #65 (October 2, 1973) [as "Il gorilla di Grayson, Italian translation]

5 page story "The Little Green Man!"

Characters Jasper Jenks
Synopsis An unscrupulous pilot tricks an alien into refitting his plane, but throws the creature out instead of rewarding it. He only then discovers that the alien had not yet explained how to land with the new engine.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #66 (October 16, 1973) [as "L'ometto verde", Italian translation]