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Issue Details

Issue #51
Published January 1964
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in October 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Giant-Man's Showdown with the Human Top!"

Characters Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Human Top [Dave Cannon]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos
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 Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp story "Showdown with the Human Top!"

Characters Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Human Top [Dave Cannon]
Synopsis Human Top steals civil defense plans and wants to sell them to the Communists. Giant-Man lures him into a trap and captures him.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Continues from last issue. The Wasp wears a new helmet, the first of many costume changes.
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)

2 page text story "The Sorcerer"

Characters Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
Synopsis A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #1 (December 1955)

5 page story "No Place to Turn!"

Synopsis Aliens transform a spy into a human, but because they can only receive black-and-white images from Earth they leave him green and he is discovered.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks Matt Fox
Letters Sam Rosen

5 page The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale story "Somewhere Waits a Wobbow!"

Characters The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (narrator); Rack Morgan
Synopsis The Wasp tells the tale of future mercenary pilot Rack Morgan who disobeys the rules once too many.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks George Roussos (as G. Bell)
Letters Artie Simek
Notes This is the first "Wasp Tells a Tale" feature.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (November 1966); in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]