Featuring: Giant-Man and Wasp
Release: December 10, 1964
Cover: March 1965
12 cents
Writer: Stan Lee
Illustrator: Bob Powell
Inked by: Don Heck
Lettering by: Sherigail
12 pages
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The cover boasts of a new Giant-Man. They just mean a new costume, one which will not prove enduring. The corner box has already been updated with the new look.
We met Bob Powell in Strange Tales #130. He’s taking over two titles this month.
We met Sherigail the letterer once before in issue 55. Various websites, including Marvel’s official site, misattribute the lettering of Sherigail. Nel Yomtov had been kind enough to reach out and let me know that Sherigail is a pseudonym for Morrie Kuramoto.
We’re getting ahead with the Giant-Man/Wasp stories and behind with the Hulk stories in this title. We’ll catch up to the Hulk stories eventually.
There’s a bit of charm to this issue. Genuine, playful affection between Hank and Jan, even if he is sometimes too absorbed in his work.
We learn Hank and Jan have a cat named Tabby. Sue and Johnny also have a cat whose name we never learned.
Giant-Man’s new gimmick is that he can enlarge or shrink other creatures.
He makes the cat giant and it attacks him. I asked my cats what they would do if they were suddenly larger than me. The look in their eyes told me all I needed to know.
They also have to face a giant spider. Fighting cats and spiders bigger than you are pretty obvious things to do with shrinking/enlarging going on, but the series has mostly avoided these tropes in favor of less interesting stories.
Rating: ★★½, 48/100
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 on Kindle.
Characters:
- Hank Pym/Giant-Man
- Wasp/Janet Van Dyne
- Tabby
Story notes:
- Wasp designs new Giant-Man costume.
- Giant-Man can now cybernetically make things shrink or grow.
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