This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog will look at early adventures of Giant-Man and the Wasp.
TALES TO ASTONISH Vol 1 #49 (Nov 1963)
Title: The Birth of Giant-Man
NOTE: Previously I covered Hank Pym’s solo adventures as Ant-Man, then the adventures of Ant-Man and the Wasp. This issue marked the 1st adventure with Hank as Giant-Man.
Villain: The Eraser
Synopsis: After last issue’s run-in with the armored villain the Porcupine and then helping form the Avengers over at Avengers #1, Dr. Pym wanted to improve his powers. While still retaining the power to shrink and control ants, he now used his Pym Particles to grow to enormous size as well.
Meanwhile, an interdimensional villain called the Eraser has been abducting Earth’s greatest scientists via his hand-weapons that teleport them to his home dimension. Because the process looks like he’s erasing them bit by bit the media dubs him “the Eraser.”
When this new villain targets Hank Pym next, Giant-Man and the Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) thwart the plans of the Eraser’s people in Dimension Z to replicate Earth’s nuclear weapons, rescue the abducted scientists and defeat the Eraser in combat. Continue reading
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