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Issue: Tales to Astonish #53
Publication Date: March 1964
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Issues: #53 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/02/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in December 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In12
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Trapped by the Porcupine!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTerrific! #29 published October 1967
as Trapped By The Porcupine! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Trapped by the Porcupine! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #2 [Regular Edition] published February 2008
as Tales to Astonish #53 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Trapped by the Porcupine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagClimax Adventure Comic #4 published June 1965
as Trapped by the Porcupine! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTerrific! #30 published November 1967
as Trapped by the Porcupine [Part 2] [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Trapped by the Porcupine! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #2 [Regular Edition] published February 2008
as Trapped by the Porcupine! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: X-583
Disclose 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).
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The Clock

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #148 published July 1956
was The Clock [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [K-9]
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When Wakes the Colossus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagWomen of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus #[nn] [Olivier Coipel Cover] published November 2010
In Content Item: FlagClimax Adventure Comic #4 published June 1965
as When Wakes the Colossus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #8 published May 1967
as When Wakes the Colossus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as When Wakes the Colossus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #2 [Regular Edition] published February 2008
as When Wakes the Colossus! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-541

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