CATALOG RECORD
Tales to Astonish #49
first appearance of Giant-Man
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Giant-Man (Hank Pym) — first appearance as Giant-Man
- Living Eraser (Marvel) — introduction
- Supremacy (Marvel) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- November 1963
- On sale
- August 1, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #49 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators
Stories
- The Birth of Giant-Man! · 18 pages
While Henry Pym develops capsules that permit him to become giant-size as well as ant-size, the Eraser captures him and brings him to Dimension Z along with other scientists to build atomic weapons. Giant-Man defeats their captors and rescues the scientists.
- Odd Skills · 2 pages
The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
- The End of a World! · 5 pages
A ruler orders the destruction of an uninhabited galaxy as a tribute to his power. The explosion in the microscopic universe is witnessed through a microscope by a boy as an unimportant anomaly.
Characters
Reprinted in
Terrific! (1967), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Tales Annual (1964), The Super-Heroes (1975), The Empire Strikes Back Weekly (1980), Essential Ant-Man (2002), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2006), Avengers: The Many Faces of Henry Pym (2012), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2013), Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (2015), True Believers: Ant-Man and the Wasp -- The Birth of Giant-Man (2018), Ant-Man / Giant-Man: Growing Pains (2018)