(November 1963)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in August 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #68 (13 Novembre 1973)
Giant Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Living Eraser
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Terrific! (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1967 series) #23 (16 September 1967)
- in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
The Birth of Giant-Man!
Ant-Man and the Wasp / comic story / 18 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Sam Rosen
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (first appearance as Giant-Man); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Living Eraser (introduction)
- Synopsis:
- While Hank Pym develops capsules that permit him to become giant-size as well as ant-size, the Eraser captures him and brings him to Dimension Z along with other scientists to build atomic weapons. Giant-Man defeats their captors and rescues the scientists.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964) [pp1—2, p3: panels 1—2, reformatted into two pages]
- in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
This story places Hank Pym's lab and base in the New Jersey Palisades. Living Eraser next appears in Marvel Two-in-One (Marvel, 1974 series) #15. (Living Eraser note added by Scott Harrison, December 2008, via GCD Errors list.)
Odd Skills
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- [J-216]
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Jim Branner; Bill Toney
- Synopsis:
- The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #34 (May 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The End of a World!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Larry Lieber
- Inks:
- George Roussos [as G. Bell]
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Zarku
- Synopsis:
- A ruler orders the destruction of an uninhabited galaxy as a tribute to his power. The explosion in the microscopic universe is witnessed through a microscope by a boy as an unimportant anomaly.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #68 (13 Novembre 1973) [as "La fine di un mondo!", Italian translation]
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
The Birth of Giant-Man!
Ant-Man and the Wasp -
2.
Odd Skills
-
3.
The End of a World!
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Pierre Freyssonnet
- Nick Caputo
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Klein
- Martin O'Hearn
- Tony R. Rose
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