- Script
- Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Ernie Hart (credited as H. E. Huntley) (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- Don Heck (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)
- Job Number
- X-192
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Throughout history there have been men who have become legends, men who have...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Henry Pym] (also origin details in flashback); Creature from Kosmos [Pilai] (introduction, named in a later comic); Lee Kearns (voice only); Maria Pym (flashback, introduction); Doctor Vernon van Dyne (introduction, death); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (introduction, origin); Joe
- Synopsis
- When a fellow scientist is killed by an alien being, Ant-Man enlists the help of the dead man's daughter. He gives her the ability to shrink and tiny wasp wings, and she joins him as his partner the Wasp. The duo use the alien's acidic nature to destroy it, saving the city.
- Reprints
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in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #68 -
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #146 -
in Marvel Feature (Marvel, 1971 series) #8 (March 1973) [Panels 6-8 of page 2, pages 3-18] which is reprinted-
in The Superhero Women (Simon and Schuster, 1977 series) (1977) -
in Hulk Comic (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #20 (July 18 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 4 pages. Prints pages 1-4; page 5, panels 1-5 & 7-8; pages 6-7; page 8, panels 1-2], #21 (July 25 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 3.5 pages. Prints page 8, panels 3-7; page 9; page 10, panels 1 & 3-7; pages 11-13] -
in Miss Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #8 - Guérilla pour Miss Hulk (janvier 1983) -
in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #178 (5 octobre 1984) -
in The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1985 series) #1 (December 1985) which is reprinted-
in The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1985 series) #9 (August 1986) [excerpts] which is reprinted-
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 Secret Invasion: Requiem (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([January] 2009) [recolored] -
in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([December] 2013) -
in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection - Classic (Hachette Partworks, 2014 series) #1 - Marvel Origins: The 60s (January 2014) -
in Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Man in the Ant Hill (2015) -
in Die offizielle Marvel-Comic-Sammlung (Hachette [DE], 2013 series) #1 - Marvel Origins: Die Sechzigerjahre (März 2015) -
in Marvel Gold. El Hombre Hormiga: ¡El Hombre en el Hormiguero! (Panini España, 2015 series) (Junio 2015) -
in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #91 - Классика Marvel: 60-е Годы -
in True Believers: Kirby 100th - Ant-Man and the Wasp (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (October 2017) -
in The Unstoppable Wasp (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 - Agents of G.I.R.L. (2018) -
in Ant-Man and the Wasp Adventures (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018) -
in Marvel Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #7 (August 2018) -
in Wasp: Small Worlds (Marvel, 2023 series) (2023)
- Keywords
- Hungary
In addition to introducing the Wasp, this story fleshes out Henry Pym's background and introduces the death of his wife as a motivating factor.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- G-60
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Rhine and its ruined bridges lay thirty miles behind and the roads were...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- LtC. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Cpt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz
- Synopsis
- A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Klugenhorst; World War II
Text story with illustration.