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.
He uses one people’s fear of a Stone Colossus to keep them in line. But the Stone Colossus really can come to life, and won’t be on Ming’s side when he does.
Rating: ★★½, 46/100
Significance: ★★☆☆☆
I read this story in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man vol. 2.
You can find the story 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:
- Hank Pym
- Wasp
- Mingo
- Stone Colossus
Minor characters:
- Vikor (subject of Mingo)
Story notes:
- Mingo attacks Asikii tribe at night, because they believe that those who die at night remain trapped in limbo.
- Deltonians worship animals, so cannot fight soldiers in animal garb.
- Stone Colossus overthrows Mingo.
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