Featuring: Wasp
Release: November 6, 1963
Cover: February 1964
12 cents
Story plot: Stan Lee
Script and art: Larry Lieber
Inking: G. Bell
5 pages
Wasp visits an orphanage to tell another sci/fi tale. The main plot about prisoners pursued by the Space Patrol doesn’t have too much going for it. But along the way, one convict lists some weird planets he was aware of. And those planets all represent some cool sci/fi ideas.
The planet with lifelike manikins on surface giving appearance of peace, while the real inhabitants war beneath the surface. The planet where plants rule and enslave the humans. The planet where cuddly-looking animals are savage carnivores.
That last planet could be ours. I have two cuddly-looking savage carnivores in my apartment.
Rating: ★★★☆☆, 54/100
Significance: ★★☆☆☆
I read this story in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man vol. 1. You can also find it in Ant-Man/Giant-Man Epic Collection vol. 1: The Man in the Ant Hill or Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades. Or on Kindle.
Characters:
- Wasp
Story notes:
- Story set in Year 3000.
- Prisoners escape prison planet; Space Patrol in pursuit.
- Men fighting women on planet; prisoners side with men, not realizing the men wanted to lock them in a zoo.
- Moral of story according to Wasp: crime doesn’t pay.
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