Tales to Astonish #53, Story B

When Wakes the Colossus!

Featuring: Wasp
Release: December 2, 1963
Cover: March 1964
12 cents
Story plot: Stan Lee
Script + Art: L.D. Lieber
Inking: D. Heck
Lettering: R. Holloway
5 pages

Once again, we get a Wasp story where she narrates another story. This time, she tells her story to Hank before heading to the Veterans hospital.

It concerns a warlord named Mingo (perhaps inspired by Ming from Flash Gordon). An atheistic conqueror, he takes advantage of his targets’ religious beliefs, easily defeating a people who don’t believe in fighting at night and another who can’t fight soldiers wearing sacred animal garb.

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