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Issue Details

Issue #53
Published March 1964
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in December 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Trapped by the Porcupine!"

Characters Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Sol Brodsky
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes 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)

18 page Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp story "Trapped by the Porcupine!"

Characters Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]
Synopsis The Porcupine uses Giant-Man's fan club to attack him and then he captures the Wasp. He uses the Wasp to lead him back to Giant-Man and attacks. He snatches Giant-Man's size-changing capsules, but takes the shrinking capsules and shrinks to nothingness.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Porcupine last appears in issue #48 (October 1963), he next appears in a cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (1965), before appearing in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966).
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)

2 page text story "The Clock"

Characters Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt
Synopsis An old clockmaker nearly dies from the cold, but is saved by the wooden figures adorning his clocks, which he has given parts of his own soul.
Genre fantasy
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #148 (July 1956)

5 page The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale story "When Wakes the Colossus!"

Characters Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (narrator); Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo); Mingo; Vikor; Colossus
Synopsis An alien warlord builds a giant statue to intimidate the superstitious, but it comes to life and takes the side of the rebels against him.
Genre fantasy
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks Don Heck
Letters Ray Holloway
Notes Erroneous "George Roussos [as George Bell]" credit removed by Stephane Petit via the GCD Errors list, February 2010.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 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]