Issue | #55 |
Published | May 1964 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in February 1964. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Human Top [Dave Cannon] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Sol Brodsky |
Letters | Artie Simek |
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) |
Characters | Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Human Top [Dave Cannon] |
Synopsis | The Human Top breaks out of prison. Giant-Man and the Wasp have to get him back. The Top uses Giant-Man's capsules to become giant and captures the Wasp, but Giant-Man distracts him while the Wasp frees herself and termites make the Top fall through a roof, allowing his recapture. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Letters | Art Simek |
Notes | The Human Top last appears in issue #51 (January 1964) and next appears in issue #55 (May 1964). |
Reprinted | in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002); in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008 |
Characters | Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish |
Synopsis | A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. Continues from last issue. Printed between the pages of the Giant-Man story. |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #36 (October 1955) [page 2] |
Notes | Advertises Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1962 series) #12 (May 1964) and Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #26 (May 1964). Printed between the Giant-Man and Wasp Tells a Tale stories. |
Characters | Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (narrator); Gorko; Baron Radzic; Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (framing sequence) |
Synopsis | A cruel baron tries to force a gypsy to give him the secret of turning lead into gold, but the gypsy is really an alien looking for a human specimen for a zoo on his homeworld. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | George Roussos [as George Bell] |
Letters | Ray Holloway [as Sherigail] |
Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (September 1967); in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008); in Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn] |