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Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man Giant-Man - Volume 2

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This is the second and final volume of the silver age Ant-Man/Giant-Man series. It reprints the stories from Tales to Astonish #53-69. Henry Pym was going by the name "Giant-Man" during this time, although he still referred to himself as "Ant-Man" when he shrunk down to insect size. Ant-Man/Giant-Man never really became all that popular, despite being a founding member of the Avengers, and the feature was replaced by the Sub-Mariner in Tales to Astonish #70. Truthfully, the series was one of the weaker superhero comics published by Marvel Comics at the time. There's nothing inheritantly wrong with a size-changing superhero, but this series was not as well written or drawn as most of the other comics by the same publisher. Too many of the plots involved Giant-Man's sidekick/girlfriend the Wasp getting captured by the villain and subsequently being rescued by our hero. And speaking of villains, most of Giant-Man's enemies were pretty lame. None of the comics in this book are great, but they are fairly entertaining in their own way. And buying this book is a heck of a lot cheaper than picking up the original comic books (if you can find them).