Category: The Wonderful Wasp Tells A Tale In Tales to Astonish (1959)

  • 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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…