Tales to Astonish #40

(February 1963)

The Day Ant-Man Failed! (Table of Contents)

The Astonishing Ant-Man / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Sol Brodsky

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

X-23

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Hijacker [Howard Mitchell]

Synopsis:

Ant-Man investigates a series of hijackings. He pretends to be sick to lure the hijacker into the open, and finds out that it's the owner of the armored car company.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (November 1966)
• in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #94 (November 1980) [pp1–6]
• in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #95 (December 1980) [pp7–11]
• in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
• Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

I Was Trapped in the Mad Universe! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

John Duffy

Job Number:

X-24

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Tommy Jordan; Phil Jordan; Ginger

Synopsis:

A boy finds a device from the future that transports him to an alternate dimension with nearly identical versions of him and his family.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from Stéphane Petit, November 2007.

Bird Talk (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

[K-424]

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy; bird census taker

Synopsis:

A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Worst Man on Earth! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

John Duffy

Job Number:

X-25

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Hogarr

Synopsis:

A criminal in the year 2000 is sentenced to be exiled from humanity for his various crimes as the death penalty has been abolished. He mocks his accusers since he has prepared a micro-drill built into his finger that will get the door of his cell open eventually. When he does succeed in getting it open, he wishes he hadn't, as it turns out his cell had been placed in orbit around the planet.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from Stéphane Petit, November 2007.