Appearing in "On the Trail of the Human Top!"
Tales to Astonish #55
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- The "Giant-Man Fan Club"
- NYPD
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
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- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Unnamed municipal prison
- Unnamed Drive-in Bank
- New York
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Synopsis for "On the Trail of the Human Top!"
Tales to Astonish #55
Giant-Man and the Wasp show the Giant-Man fan club footage of their battle against the Human Top (from their first encounter with him in Tales to Astonish Vol 1 50 & 51). After showing the film, the Wasp muses that it would be frightening if the Human Top ever escaped from jail.
Coincidentally, at that moment, the Human Top has perfected a new trick: spinning so fast that he's invisible to the naked eye. He uses this ability to escape from his jail cell and soon robs a bank, alerting Giant-Man and the Wasp of his escape. Rushing to the scene of the crime, Giant-Man and Wasp realize that they are too late to capture the Human Top.
The two heroes vow to defeat the Human Top and return to their lab track down the foe, little realizing that their target has spotted them and uses his super speed to track them back to their home. Attacking them by surprise, the Human Top snatches Giant-Man's belt of size capsules and uses one of the capsules to grow in size. He easily dispatches Giant-Man, and then captures the Wasp in a jar before escaping.
Using his ants to escape from a locked closet, Giant-Man regains his discarded capsule belt and chases after his foe. He tracks down his enemy and frees the Wasp. During the battle, Giant-Man uses his mastery of changing size, the Wasp, and nearby ants to defeat the Human Top, who is not used to fighting at giant-size. Tricking him into smashing through a weakened roof top, they make the Human Top take a reducing capsule to return to regular size. The Human Top quickly surrenders afterward.
The next day, Giant-Man and Wasp tell the story to their fan club and read over the newspaper story about the Human Top's defeat.