Tales to Astonish #42

(April 1963)

The Voice of Doom! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Larry Lieber (credited) (script)

Pencils

Don Heck (credited)

Inks

Don Heck (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

Job Number

X-106

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I command you, Ant-Man!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; The Voice [Jason Cragg] (introduction, also origin in flashback)

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

• in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #9, #10
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #43 (1965 ?)
• in Hit Comics Die Spinne (BSV - Williams, 1971 series) #228
• in Hulk Comic (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #12 (May 23 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 4 pages. Prints pages 2-7; page 8, panels 1-2 & 4-6], #13 (30 May 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 3.5 pages. Prints pages 1; page 8, panel 7; page 9, panels 2, 1, 4-5, 3 & 6-7; page 10, panels 1-5 & 7; pages 11-13]
• in Les Défenseurs (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #4 (2ème trimestre 1982)
• 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 Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Man in the Ant Hill (2015)
• in Marvel Gold. El Hombre Hormiga: ¡El Hombre en el Hormiguero! (Panini España, 2015 series) (Junio 2015)

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: 2)

text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

H-487

First Line of Dialogue or Text

"The effect of sound waves upon matter have always been a problem of interest to scientists, Mr. Bolton," Professor Carmichael told...

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

• 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: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Larry Lieber (credited) (script)

Pencils

Joe Sinnott (credited)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Terry Szenics (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Want a real fantastic tale?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Harry Sloan; Mrs. Sloan; Sadie

Synopsis

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

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #97
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #25 (1965 ?)
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #147
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #13 ([Septembre 1972])
• in Le Tombeau de Dracula (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #3
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #146 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #180 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
• in Gamma la bombe qui a créé Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #15 (3ème trimestre 1981)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([January] 2012)

Keywords

Tut-Am-Tut's amulet

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: 4)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

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: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Steve Ditko (credited)

Inks

Steve Ditko (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

Job Number

X-108

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What really is a human being??

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

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #97
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #25 (1965 ?)
• in Hit Comics Captain Marvel (BSV - Williams, 1970 series) #203
• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #112 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #139 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
• in Captain America (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #15 (3ème trimestre 1981)
• in The Empire Strikes Back Monthly (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #144 (March-April 1981)
• in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) (2005)
• 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)
• in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)

Keywords

robot

Indexer Notes

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://ditkocultist.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/original-art-i-am-not-human-…