Tales to Astonish #42

(April 1963)

The Voice of Doom! (Table of Contents)

Ant-Man / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

X-106

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Voice [Jason Cragg] (introduction, origin)

Synopsis:

A radio spokesman gains a hypnotic voice from radiation, and decides to test it by turning the people against Ant-Man. He captures Ant-Man and forces him to walk off a pier, but the ants rescue the hero, and he beats the Voice with laryngitis.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• 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 Voice next appears in West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 1985 series) #36 (September 1988). In this story Ant-Man is said to live in "Center City".

Secret Mission (Table of Contents)

text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

H-487

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Ezra Bolton; Prof. Carmichael; Prof. Greever

Synopsis:

A bookkeeper dreams that he is a government agent hunting a mad scientist with a destructive sound device.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #43 (January 1956)

Indexer Notes

The first page is printed between the pages of the Ant-Man story, while the second page is printed between "The Eyes of the Mummy!" and "I Am Not Human!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.

The Eyes of the Mummy! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Joe Sinnott

Inks:

Joe Sinnott

Colors:

?

Letters:

Terry Szenics

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Harry Sloan; Mrs. Sloan; Sadie

Synopsis:

A crook steals a jewel from an ancient dummy, but the dead pharoah's hypnotic powers make him see only death until he returns it.

Reprints:

• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #13 ([Septembre 1972])

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208) (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Credits

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Average circulation per issue October 1961–September 1962 (issues #28–38, despite monthly cover dates): 139,167. This shares the last page of "Secret Mission".

I Am Not Human! (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:

E-1

Synopsis:

A humanoid robot escapes his creator's lab with an artificial face and clothes in order to live among humans as a man. He is so disillusioned with human beings inhumanity to their fellows that he removes the mask and allows his creator to bring him back to the lab. His maker says to him "You must have known you could never have passed for human for long." to which the robot replies to the startled engineer "Has the thought never occurred to you that no robot would want to?"

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #112 (?)
• in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005)