Tales to Astonish #39

(January 1963)

The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle! (Table of Contents)

The Astonishing Ant-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

V-958

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Scarlet Beetle (introduction, origin)

Synopsis:

Ant-Man fights a beetle made super-intelligent by radiation. It uses Ant-Man's growth gas to become giant, but he is able to defeat it.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966)
which is reprinted
• in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #32 ([Mars 1974])
• in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
• Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

The Scarlet Beetle next appears in Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #44 (January 1972).

The Remedy Oil (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Marie Severin

Inks:

Marie Severin

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

J-984

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm

Synopsis:

An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #54 (April 1957)
which is reprinted
• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #37 (August 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustrations.

Ozamm the Terrible! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jon D'Agostino [as Johnny Dee]

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Ozamm; Joe Baxter

Synopsis:

A factory worker laid off to be replaced by a machine foils a seemingly invincible alien by cutting off his power source.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (July 1974)
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #205 (none listed) [original title: Ozamm the Terrible!]

The Toy Soldiers (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Billy Barton; Zogg

Synopsis:

A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 (20 Aprile 1971)
• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #8 (February 1975)

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from George Oshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.