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136: Tales to Astonish #55 (v1)

"On the Trail of the Human Top! / The Gypsy's Secret!"
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Cover Artists:
Writers:
Stan Lee
Pencilers:
Dick Ayers
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Letterers: Artie Simek
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Cover Date: May 1964
Release Date: February 1964
Story Arc: -
Pages: 23
Cover Price: $0.12
Times Read: 186
Times Rated: 110
 
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Tales to Astonish #55 (v1)
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Tales of Suspense #52
Tales to Astonish #54 (v1)
Tales to Astonish #55 (v1)
Strange Tales #120 (v1)
Strange Tales #121 (v1)
134: Tales of Susp...
#52
135: Tales to Asto...
#54 (v1)
 
137: Strange Tales
#120 (v1)
138: Strange Tales
#121 (v1)
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The Human Top has escaped from prison and after a confrontation with Giant-man he manages to steal a growth capsule, turning himself into a giant Human Top! Giant-man knows after his last encounter that the only way to beat this giant foe will be with smarts not speed.

 
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Main Characters
  Giant-Man
Giant-Man last appeared in Tales to Astonish #54 (v1). Giant-Man next appears in Tales to Astonish #56 (v1).
     
  The Wasp
The Wasp last appeared in Tales to Astonish #54 (v1). The Wasp next appears in Tales to Astonish #56 (v1).
     
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  The Human Top
The Human Top last appeared in Tales to Astonish #51 (v1). The Human Top next appears in Tales to Astonish #59 (v1).
     
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  juanito Says:  
  2011-10-25 11:38:18  
  Note to police: never fall for the 'model prisoner act' of an imprisoned super-villain.  
 
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  thomassp74 Says:  
  2011-11-27 11:39:43  
  Human Top is hands down the worst recurring villain of all the books. Now he can spin so fast that he’s “virtually invisible” and a guard can look right at him and not see him?

Oh my god, that “special rig” on the side of the building is even worse than the catapult.

So he’s twelve feet tall but he can sit on top of a bus like it’s an ottoman?

Wait….his cellophane air chariot?

Now he spins on his head? Are the Tales to Astonish stories getting worse?
 
 
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  poj-poj Says:  
  2012-04-10 18:31:30  
  tales to astonish are getting realy bad!  
 
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  Canuck Says:  
  2012-04-22 10:51:01  
  Don't know what's worse, Tales to Astonish or Strange Tales.  
 
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  Webslinger Says:  
  2012-05-09 13:24:41  
  Shouldn't Giant Man and Was fan club qualify as a group (as The Enforces)? Stan really insisted on this one!
I just guess dumb heroes deserve dumb villains, and readers also...

The Wasp's tale was almost good!
 
 
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  Ice Says:  
  2012-08-02 23:00:35  
  I wonder if the recurring "Giant Man Fan Club" is Stan trying to create the illusion that Giant Man and the Wasp were popular. I suspect sales were sagging a lot, at this point.

For the second time, a villain pops one of Pym's pills and his costume (almost definitely NOT made of unstable molecules) grows or shrinks with him. It's a moderately irritating continuity error...
 
 
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  Ice Says:  
  2012-08-01 23:01:01  
  And, I don't think I'd say ToA is getting *worse* so much as it's stagnating while a lot of the rest of the stories are starting to really improve, in creative quality. It's making ToA really hard to read.  
 
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  jfpj1991 Says:  
  2012-08-18 00:03:54  
  The Wasp's tales are like a handicapped 5 years olds imaginings.  
 
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  Dark_Knight93 Says:  
  2012-09-22 23:26:38  
  I've taken up imagining Henry Pym with the voice of Adam West. It automatically makes these terrible stories more tolerable lol. This issue was definitely better than the last to ToA, which isn't anything to brag about.  
 
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  chrisWhite Says:  
  2012-09-24 21:36:21  
  Sigh.  
 
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  specialque Says:  
  2012-09-25 11:28:23  
  They need to find something new to do with Ant-Man and Wasp. I don't know if Stan's just bored with these characters or what, but the last couple of stories haven't been up to snuff.

At least Wasp's new story was OK. Heavy handed and dumb, but OK.
 
 
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  Bapt15ta Says:  
  2012-11-09 13:49:53  
  Three question:
1. Is it just me or does every villain caught by a super hero in the 60's turn out to be a prison good behaviour role model?
2. Why do Giant-Man and the Wasp bother keeping secret identities when they call each other by their real names on a crowded street?
3. If Ant-Man keeps his human sized strength why would a bunch a paper be an almost impenetrable barrier?
 
 
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  Robareid Says:  
  2013-02-20 14:51:22  
  It's really bugging me how they can't keep Giant Man's height. Previously he's said the max he can go is 12 foot. In some of the panels he's way bigger than that.

Also, apparently Henry Pym can't move paper out the way... That or he's forgotten he retains his strength when going ant sized
 
 
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  rebelmswar Says:  
  2013-03-28 13:04:52  
  This makes my daughters hour long stories about her friends new nail polish and Beiber seem riveting.  
 
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  jdbennett13 Says:  
  2013-06-12 23:45:16  
  I have definitely had enough of The Human Top  
 
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