Issue | #57 |
Published | July 1964 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in April 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]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Chic Stone |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Notes | Inks (Chic Stone) credited by Bob Bailey, 2005-01-30; Inks previously credited to Sol Brodsky. (Per Sandell ed.). 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]; Egghead [Elihas Starr]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker] |
Synopsis | Egghead tricks Giant-Man into attacking Spider-Man in order to distract them while he robs an armored car. The Wasp realizes the trick, and the three of them capture Egghead together. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Notes | Egghead last appears in issue #45 (July 1963) and next appears in #61 (November 1964). |
Reprinted | in Amazing Spider-Man Annual, The (Marvel, 1964 series) #8 (December 1971) [pp1–9, 11–13, 15, p16: panels 1–8]; 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 | Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Giant-Man [Hank Pym] |
Synopsis | The Wasp stops a thief by pretending to be the Invisible Girl. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | Chic Stone |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Notes | This is the first Wasp solo story. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (January 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] |
Notes | Advertises Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #28 (July 1964) and Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #14 (July 1964). Printed between the pages of the Wasp story. |
Characters | Leroy; Zoop |
Synopsis | A young boy meets a tiny space traveler from Skyville, a suburb of Mars, trapped in a balloon. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. Continues from last issue. Printed after the Wasp story. This is the last text story in Tales to Astonish. |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) [page 2] |