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Tales to Astonish 1959 #53 - 1.0 - $12.99
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The Porcupine uses Giant-Man's fan club to attack him and then he captures the Wasp. He uses the Wasp to lead him back to Giant-Man and attacks. He snatches Giant-Man's size-changing capsules, but takes the shrinking capsules and shrinks to nothingness.
An old clockmaker nearly dies from the cold, but is saved by the wooden figures adorning his clocks, which he has given parts of his own soul.
An alien warlord builds a giant statue to intimidate the superstitious, but it comes to life and takes the side of the rebels against him.
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- Trapped by the Porcupine! - Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
- Trapped by the Porcupine! - Porcupine last appears in issue #48 (October 1963), he next appears in a cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (1965), before appearing in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966).
- When Wakes the Colossus! - Erroneous "George Roussos [as George Bell]" credit removed by Stephane Petit via the GCD Errors list, February 2010. Job number revealed on original art: https://www.comicbookdaily.com/championing_comics/lart-pour-lart/web-arted-aug-15th/