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Issue: Tales to Astonish #53
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Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Volume: 1
Pages: 36
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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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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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Trapped by the Porcupine!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
superhero
Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]
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Trapped by the Porcupine!

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superhero
Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]; Charlie
At a nearby orphans' home, the colorful Giant-Man, aided by his lovely...
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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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

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Subject Matter
fantasy
Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt
The snow fell quietly in the little Alpine village, and Franz Ammergau sat...
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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When Wakes the Colossus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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fantasy
The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale
Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (narrator); Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (cameo); Mingo; Vikor; Colossus
I thought you were going to the Veteran's Hospital, Jan, to entertain the...
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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