Putting on
a charity exhibition downtown, Giant-Man stretches across neighboring buildings
while the full-sized Wasp dances over him. But the Porcupine is on the scene,
apparently inconspicuous in his wicker costume, firing a shock quill at the big
guy, causing him to fall; Wasp takes a reducing pill to fly out from under him
while Hank hits the sidewalk and merely fractures an ankle. Disappointed, the villain
goes home to his lab where, as scientist Alex Gentry, he devises a sleeping gas
that will work on Giant-Man’s giant lungs. But how to get close to him? Gentry
visits the Giant-Man Fan Club where the kids are wearing costumes of
Giant-Man’s greatest villains. Gentry suggests they all go in costume to
Giant-Man’s lab to cheer him up while he nurses his broken ankle….
The next
day, the kids show up in villain costumes (with the real Porcupine among them)
to see their hero. Porcupine asks Wasp to go to his car to retrieve a gift he
left there; it’s a trap, designed to lock her in the back seat. The baddie
releases the gas which knocks out all of the kids but not Giant-Man who tries
to hold onto Porcupine, but the villain frees himself from Giant-Man’s grip and
flies out of the window, calling out that Wasp is his prisoner. He uses a cord
and suction cup to halt his flight and bring him down by his car which he
enters and drives off. Hank asks his ants to trail the villain but his car
emits a DDT spray preventing the insects from trailing him….
Gentry
locks Wasp away in his secret hideout but this is also a trap; Wasp is expected
to find a way out and when she heads off to find Giant-Man, she will be pursued
by a special tracking quill and the bad guy will find the hero’s secret
headquarters. And it works, so Porcupine heads to the indicated location. But
Giant-Man also spots the tracking quill and knows the villain is coming.
Porcupine bursts in, firing a flypaper quill that traps Wasp. He and Giant-Man
spar around the lab with the hero faking out his foe by shrinking and enlarging
suddenly. The villain engages Giant-Man closely and seizes the capsules from
his belt. Porcupine swallows them all, intending to become a much bigger giant
but it turns out he grabbed the wrong pills and he shrinks to microscopic size
and vanishes from sight….
“The Clock”
Writer:
Unknown. Art: Unknown.
Synopsis:
An elderly clockmaker falls ill and the carved figurines on his clocks come to
life to summon the doctor and save his life!
“When Wakes
the Colossus!”
Writer:
Larry Lieber. Plot: Stan Lee. Pencils: Larry Lieber. Inks: Don Heck. Colors: ?
Letters: Ray Holloway.
Synopsis:
Wasp practices a story on Hank Pym before her visit to the veterans’ hospital:
An evil warlord builds a giant statue, telling the subjugated natives that if
they don’t obey him, the statue will come to life and kill them all; the people
revolt and the statue does indeed come to life—to help overthrow the warlord!