| Issue | #40 |
| Published | February 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Ant-Man [Hank Pym] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers ?; Jack Kirby ? |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Cover inks credit for Kirby from Nick Caputo, via the GCD Error List (30 January 2009). |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (November 1966) [partially obscured]; in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) |
| Characters | Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Hijacker [Howard Mitchell] |
| Synopsis | Ant-Man investigates a series of hijackings. He pretends to be sick to lure the hijacker into the open, and finds out that it's the owner of the armored car company. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (November 1966); in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #94 (November 1980) [pp1–6]; in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #95 (December 1980) [pp7–11]; in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Tommy Jordan; Phil Jordan; Ginger |
| Synopsis | A boy finds a device from the future that transports him to an alternate dimension with nearly identical versions of him and his family. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | John Duffy |
| Notes | Writer credit from Stéphane Petit, November 2007. |
| Characters | Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy; bird census taker |
| Synopsis | A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956) |
| Characters | Hogarr |
| Synopsis | A criminal in the year 2000 is sentenced to be exiled from humanity for his various crimes as the death penalty has been abolished. He mocks his accusers since he has prepared a micro-drill built into his finger that will get the door of his cell open eventually. When he does succeed in getting it open, he wishes he hadn't, as it turns out his cell had been placed in orbit around the planet. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | John Duffy |
| Notes | Writer credit from Stéphane Petit, November 2007. |