Tales to Astonish #53 (1964) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Trapped by the Porcupine!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Alexander Gentry, Giant-Man, Porcupine, Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp
1	Trapped by the Porcupine!	comic story	18	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Dick Ayers; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: S. Rosen	Alexander Gentry, Giant-Man, Porcupine, Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp
2	The Clock	text story	2	letters: typeset	Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt
3	When Wakes the Colossus!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee, L. D. Lieber; pencils: L. D. Lieber; inks: D. Heck; letters: R. Holloway	Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Collection	Year
Marvel Tales #8	1967	On eBay ›
Essential Ant-Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-0822-X	2002	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-2911-0	2008	On eBay ›
Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-4326-0	2010	On eBay ›
The Man in the Ant Hill ISBN 978-0-7851-9850-5	2015	On eBay ›

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