(October 1962)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1962-07-10
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- Printer
- The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U.S. Copyright Office filings.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Ant-Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So!! The famous Ant-Man has walked into the trap of Comrade X!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky]
- Reprints
-
in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #3 -
in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #164 -
in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #3 (1963 ?) -
in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [cover], #1 (February 2002) [black and white] - in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([March] 2006)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([December] 2013)
-
in Marvel Gold. El Hombre Hormiga: ¡El Hombre en el Hormiguero! (Panini España, 2015 series) (Junio 2015) - in Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Man in the Ant Hill (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters credit from George Oleshevky's Marvel Comics Index.
![Cover Thumbnail for Tales to Astonish (1959 series) #36 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1209/w100/1209812.jpg?-982685225590471247)
The Challenge of Comrade X!
Ant-Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Terry Szenics; Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-858
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're in for another gripping adventure with Henry Pym, the brilliant scientist who can...
- Feature Logo
The Astonishing Ant-Man- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky] (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Ant-Man is hunted by a Soviet agent sent to capture him, but a beautiful stranger warns him of the spy's whereabouts. Ant-Man realizes that the woman is really the spy and defeats her.
- Reprints
- in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #3
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #3 (1963 ?)
- in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #1 ([December] 1965)
-
in Marvelserien (Williams Förlags AB, 1967 series) #29 (1969) - in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #100
- in Hulk Comic (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #6 (April 11, 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 4 pages. Prints pages 2-3, page 4, panels 1-7 & 9; page 5, panels 1, 3 & 5-7; pages 6-8; page 9, panels 1-2], #7 (April 18 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 3 pages. Prints detail from cover used as story panel; page 9, panels 3-8; page 10. panels 1-3 & 5-8; pages 11-13], #18 (July 4 1979) [Detail from page 1]
- in The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1985 series) #5 (April 1986) which is reprinted
- in Marvel Saga (SatellitFörlaget, 1988 series) #5
- in Essential Marvel Saga (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([March] 2006)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([December] 2013)
- in Marvel Gold. El Hombre Hormiga: ¡El Hombre en el Hormiguero! (Panini España, 2015 series) (Junio 2015)
- in Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Man in the Ant Hill (2015)
-
- Keywords
- cybernetic helmet
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into two untitled parts (7 pp, 6 pp). Page 5 includes a schematic of Ant-Man's miniature entrance and exit from his house. Comrade X next appears in West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 1985 series) #33 (June 1988) as "Madame X". Szenics letters credit from George Oleshevky's Marvel Comics Index. Nick Caputo notes that Artie Simek lettered part 2 of the story.
From Outer Space
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- 9498
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It had been expected for a long time, so it wasn't too much of a shock when the first visitors from...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jonathan Ditmar
- Synopsis
- When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
- Reprints
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #26 (February 1955) which is reprinted
- from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #3 (March 1952) [as "From Outer Space"]
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Hands of Time!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as
Paul Reinman) - Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-859
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our story starts with a flight from the law...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Harry Weems
- Synopsis
- A fugitive steals a clock that turns back time. He becomes young again, and tries to commit the perfect crime, by escaping back in time before it happened, but when the clock breaks, he dies.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #100
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #22 (1964 ?)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #81
-
in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #12 (juillet 1972) - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #151 ([circa 1976 - 1977])
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #243 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([January] 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit from George Oleshevky's Marvel Comics Index. Simek letters per Nick Caputo. Olshevsky's index incorrectly credited John Duffy.
The Search for Pan!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as
Stan Lee [early- to mid-career]) - Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-860
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Many men had searched for Pan--in vain!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Pan
- Synopsis
- A man arrives in a small village looking for Pan, whom all the villagers affirm does exist. He hopes to cash in somehow, but becomes frustrated when no one will tell him where to find Pan, and he begins to think they are just scamming the tourists. He threatens to rough up a bartender and the bartender directs him to a nearby grove under the full moon. The man goes, and does encounter Pan, but is so unsettled by the encounter he immediately leaves town. It turns out the bartender has cloven hooves.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #22 (1964 ?)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #81
- in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #12 (juillet 1972)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #151 ([circa 1976 - 1977])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([January] 2012)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962). Lee credit noted by "kevobay" via the GCD Errors list, February 2010. Letters credit from George Oleshevky's Marvel Comics Index.
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
["So!! The famous Ant-Man has walked into the trap of Comrade X!"]
Ant-Man -
1.
The Challenge of Comrade X!
Ant-Man -
2.
From Outer Space
-
3.
The Hands of Time!
-
4.
The Search for Pan!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Del Gruber
- Ethan Hoddes
- R. S. Martin
- Lou Mazzella
- Darrel McCann
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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