Tales to Astonish #53 (Marvel, 1964) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $6,000.00
Sold: Mar 27, 2019
Tales to Astonish #53 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1964
About Tales to Astonish #53
Giant-Man, Wasp, and Colossus appearances. Origin of the Porcupine. Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky cover. Larry Lieber art and story. Dick Ayers and Don Heck art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Sol Brodsky
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Sam Rosen
Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alex Gentry]; Charlie
Synopsis: 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.
Pages: 18.000
Script: Stan Lee
Pencils: Dick Ayers
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: Sam Rosen [as S. Rosen]
Notes: 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).
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
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CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 23 | 23 | 26 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 260 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 24 | 24 | 27 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 274 |
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