| Issue | #52 |
| Published | February 1964 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements, and is the first issue of Tales to Astonish without text pages. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Black Knight [Nathan Garrett]; Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| 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) |
| Characters | Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Black Knight [Nathan Garrett] (introduction, origin) |
| Synopsis | After being arrested for treason by Giant-Man, Professor Garrett flees to Europe where he manipulate the genes of horses and eagles to create a winged horse. Then he develops his lance and comes back as the Black Knight to take his revenge on Giant-Man. Giant-Man defeats him, but the Black Knight escapes. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #43 (November 1971); in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Notes | Advertises X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (January 1964). Printed between the pages of the Giant-Man story. |
| Notes | Advertises the Avengers (Marvel, 1963) #3 (January 1964). Printed between the Giant-Man and Wasp Tells a Tale stories. |
| Characters | Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (narrator) |
| Synopsis | The Wasp tells the tale of prison escapees who try to avoid a planet with a trap, but are doomed when they take the wrong side in a battle of the sexes. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | George Roussos [as G. Bell] |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (March 1967); 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] |