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Issue: Tales to Astonish #53

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Publication Date: March 1964

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Issues: #53 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: none entered

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Stan Lee

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Tales to Astonish #53 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #53 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (4 total)

Trapped by the Porcupine!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]

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Pages: 1

Trapped by the Porcupine!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]; Charlie

First Line: At a nearby orphans' home, the colorful Giant-Man, aided by his lovely...

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.

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Pages: 18

Job Number: X-583

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).

The Clock

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt

First Line: The snow fell quietly in the little Alpine village, and Franz Ammergau sat...

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.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [K-9]

When Wakes the Colossus!

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Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale

Character(s): Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (narrator); Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (cameo); Mingo; Vikor; Colossus

First Line: I thought you were going to the Veteran's Hospital, Jan, to entertain the...

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.

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Pages: 5