Category: Tales To Astonish 1959

  • Tales To Astonish #63:A Titan Rides The Train!

    Tales To Astonish #63:A Titan Rides The Train!

    Cover Date: Jan 1965 | Review: 4.5 Stars

    This tale starts off and reveals to us the mysterious leader and his origin, similar to that of the Hulk but different in effect. Both were exposed to Gamma rays, both should have perished, and both had an aspect of themselves enhanced beyond human capabilities. The Leaders below-average human brain was made brighter compared to…

  • Tales To Astonish #63:The Gangsters and the Giant!

    Tales To Astonish #63:The Gangsters and the Giant!

    Cover Date: Jan 1965 | Review: 1.5 Stars

    The tale starts out this month much like so many comics, in a training routine with Giant-Man pushing and honing his phyiscal capabilities. This is done while the wasp times him and flirts with him. This is ended by the arrival of a police officer who summons our hero’s (or at least Giant-Man, with the…

  • Tales To Astonish #62:Enter... The Chameleon!

    Tales To Astonish #62:Enter… The Chameleon!

    Cover Date: Dec 1964 | Review: 3.5 Stars

    This issue picks up where the last one left off, with the Hulk bound and captured by General Ross and the US military. As Rick Jones learns of this, he leaves the side of Captain America to travel back and try to help the Hulk. At the same time, a mysterious new figure known as…

  • Tales To Astonish #62:Giant-Man Versus THe Wonderful Wasp!

    Tales To Astonish #62:Giant-Man Versus THe Wonderful Wasp!

    Cover Date: Dec 1964 | Review: 1.25 Stars

    Right from the cover, we are made aware that in this issue, we will have Giant-Man fights for his life against the Wasp! then on page one, a Big Surprise is revealed to us that “this issues big bad villain learns the secret of Giant-Man’s real identity!” But what do these two bits of promotional…

  • Tales to Astonish #61:Now Walks the Android

    Tales to Astonish #61:Now Walks the Android

    Cover Date: Nov 1964 | Review: 2 Stars

    This Ant-Man and wasp tale features Egghead whom we last seen in issue 57. In this issue he escapes from Jail, and sets out to get revenge on Giant-Man for besting him. As a villion goes it is more about proving himself the superior intellect then anything else at this point for the antagonist. This…

  • Tales to astonish #61:Captured At Last!

    Tales to astonish #61:Captured At Last!

    Cover Date: Nov 1964 | Review: 4.25 Stars

    The Tale featuring the Hulk from Tales To Astonish #61 titled “Captured At Last!” takes place as a directly continuation (although taking place some weeks later)  of the story from issue 60.  In this ongoing epic, we have Bruce Banner working hard to develop a means to track down the enemy controlled robot he created in…

  • Tales To Astonish #60:The Incredible Hulk

    Tales To Astonish #60:The Incredible Hulk

    Cover Date: Oct 1964 | Review: 3 Stars

    With Tales to Astonish #60, the Hulk returns to the forefront, being given his own feature again for the first time since his own title was canceled with Incredible Hulk #6. This issues cover date being a year and a half after that fateful event. But to look back to just his last feature title,…

  • Tales to astonish #60:The Beast of Berlin

    Tales to astonish #60:The Beast of Berlin

    Cover Date: Oct 1964 | Review: 3.5 Stars

    The tale for Giant-Man and the wasp (although just barely) for Tales To Astonish#60 is a communist fighting adventure titled  “The Beast Of Berlin”.  In this tale,  Giant-man goes off alone (after telling her for the first time about how his wife died) to Communist controlled Berlin to rescue a friend captured by the communist…

  • Tales To Astonish #59:Enter: The Hulk

    Tales To Astonish #59:Enter: The Hulk

    Cover Date: Sep 1964 | Review: 3.75 Stars

    Having just finished reading Tales To Astonish #59 I find myself asking, who is more the star of this tale,  Giant-Man or Hulk.  You see, up until this Issue, Giant-Man with his side-kick (I almost hate calling wasp a side-kick)  have been the featured hero’s of the series.  As of late often with a Wasp…

  • Tales to Astonish #58:The Magician and The Maiden

    Tales to Astonish #58:The Magician and The Maiden

    Cover Date: Aug 1964 | Review: 4 Stars

    Just like last month, we again have the wasp acting on her own, to be the hero.  this time against the Magician;  a villain that was captured a few months before in Tales To Astonish # 56‘s feature story titled “The Coming Of The Magician!”. that time, the wasp proved to be  a damsel in distress, this time however…

  • Tales To Astonish #58:The Coming Of... Colossus

    Tales To Astonish #58:The Coming Of… Colossus

    Cover Date: Aug 1964 | Review: 3 Stars

    For tales To astonish the feature story we have Giant-Man and the The wasp take on Colossus, a giant twice the size of Gaint-Man!  But in this trilling adventure taking place in the made up Bora-Boru Region of Africa, where a group of natives have taken to worshiping the 30 foot tall Colossus, can  Giant man manage to…

  • Tales To Astonish #57:A Voice In The Dark

    Tales To Astonish #57:A Voice In The Dark

    Cover Date: Jul 1964 | Review: 3.5 Stars

    This tale, is not like the other wasp extras, instead of Janet Van Dyne telling a tale to some sick or orphaned kids, she is instead on her way from one of these tales to a date with Hank Pym.  But as the wasp soon finds out, the tasks of being a super-hero often show…

  • Tales To Astonish #57:On The Trail of The Amazing Spider-Man

    Tales To Astonish #57:On The Trail of The Amazing Spider-Man

    Cover Date: Jul 1964 | Review: 2.5 Stars

    It seems in my last several classic comic book reviews, we have seen a lot of Hero Vs. Hero action.  from Spider-Man and the Hulk  to X-Men Vs Fantastic Four, and now Giant-Man and the Wasp face off against Spider-Man.  Every time, we see this kind of action, their are challenges  and concerns that must be…

  • Tales To Astonish #56:Beware The Bog Beast!

    Tales To Astonish #56:Beware The Bog Beast!

    Cover Date: Jun 1964 | Review: 4.75 Stars

    his may be one of the best “The Wonderful  Wasp Tells A Tale” I have read! it would leave me excited for more but at last, more was not to come.  As Next month, the second feature would star the wasp, but not be a wonderful Tale. This is a tale, of a lovely woman,…

  • Tales To Astonish #55:The Gypsy's Secret

    Tales To Astonish #55:The Gypsy’s Secret

    Cover Date: May 1964 | Review: 4 Stars

    A tale of great desire, and the ability to turn led into gold, how can such a story go wrong?  In fact, it can go wrong in many ways, but I am pleased to say, “The Gypsy’s Secret” did not go wrong at all. this is the story of  Gypsy who has the great secret  of…

  • Tales To Astonish #54:Conquest

    Tales To Astonish #54:Conquest

    Cover Date: Apr 1964 | Review: 4 Stars

    In this issue we have another one of the stories in the series of “The Wonderful Wasp Tells A Tale” this one titled “Conquest“.  in this tale we see a ruler driven to conquest to earn the admiration of his people, and just what that leads too for him. like the other stories in this series it…

  • Tales To Astonish #56:The Coming Of The Magician!

    Tales To Astonish #56:The Coming Of The Magician!

    Cover Date: Jun 1964 | Review: 3.5 Stars

    In this issue, just as the cover promises, we see Giant-Man using his power to his advantage, and then just as the last tale foretold, we get the hint of a looming proposal from hank Pym to Janet van Dyne.   But will this story be as magical as we hope, or just a bunch of tricks? Artwork Dick…

  • Tales To Astonish #55:On The Trail Of The Human Top!

    Tales To Astonish #55:On The Trail Of The Human Top!

    Cover Date: May 1964 | Review: 3.5 Stars

    In tales To astonish #55 we have Hank Pym as both Giant-Man and Ant-man using his skills along with the assistance of Janet Van Dyne to stop the Human Top for the second time. The first time was in Tales To Astonish #50 and #51.  But what does their second encounter have in store for us?  and what of the…

  • Tales To Astonish #54:No Place To Hide

    Tales To Astonish #54:No Place To Hide

    Cover Date: Apr 1964 | Review: 2.25 Stars

    This comic book review is for the Giant-man & Wasp story featured in Tales To Astonish #54, titled “No Place To Hide”. This tale features our hero’s after they are asked by the US Government to investigate a governmental change in the small nation of Santo Rico, and its new leader “El Toro!” But is “no Place…

  • Tales To Astonish #53:When Wakes The Colossus!

    Tales To Astonish #53:When Wakes The Colossus!

    Cover Date: Mar 1964 | Review: 3 Stars

    This tale, has the Wasp telling her story to Dr. Pym before leaving for the Veterans Hospital, giving us a slightly different backdrop, but helping to maintain the ongoing concept for the wasp tells a tale series. The story she tells though, is just as entertaining as the last few though; being a tale of…

  • Tales To Astonish #53:Trapped By The Porcupine!

    Tales To Astonish #53:Trapped By The Porcupine!

    Cover Date: Mar 1964 | Review: 2.5 Stars

    For today’s comic book review i read Tales To Astonish #53, where we have an Giant-Man feature that includes the return of The Porcupine. Now as you may remember from my review of Tales To Astonish #48, I was not to trilled with the porcupine or his first appearance.  So now we will get to find out…

  • Tales To Astonish #52:Not What They Seem!

    Tales To Astonish #52:Not What They Seem!

    Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 4 Stars

    Now that I got the action story out of the way; I move on to review Tales To Astonish #52 “the wonderful Wasp Tells A tale!” story, This time she goes to an orphanage to tell her story to the local kids.  The tale she tells is titled “Not What They Seem!” The Story The Story,…

  • Tales To Astonish #52:The Black Knight Strikes!

    Tales To Astonish #52:The Black Knight Strikes!

    Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 4.25 Stars

    For today’s comic book review I read Tales To Astonish #52, starting Giant-Man and The Wonderful Wasp!  Just from the cover of the classic comic book I seen great promise, and not just from the words, but also from the clean appearance. but is the tale titled “The Black Knight Strikes!” meant to be a good one? or is it…

  • Tales To Astonish #51:The Wonderful Wasp Tells A Tale: Somewhere Waits A Wobbow!

    Tales To Astonish #51:The Wonderful Wasp Tells A Tale: Somewhere Waits A Wobbow!

    Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 4 Stars

    In addition to the Giant-Man and The Wasp super hero feature, starting in this issue, The wonderful Wasp would get her own tale,  or at least the job of telling one. I could tell you what this is all about in my own words, but I would just assume quote the comic. When she’s not…