Issue | #41 |
Published | March 1963 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in December 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 |
Colors | Artie Simek |
Reprinted | in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Characters | Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Kulla; Ed Marion ('window washer', named in Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook) Ben Carter; Paul |
Synopsis | Hank Pym is kidnapped along with other scientists in order to build a super-weapon for a tyrant in another dimension. He sneaks away and transforms into Ant-Man in order to defeat the tyrant. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | In Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook, this dimension is called Dehnock. |
Reprinted | in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Characters | Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy |
Synopsis | A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (August 1956) |
Characters | Bruno Storme; Shorty Harris |
Synopsis | An animal-loving reporter saves a four-armed ape from a hunter and discovers that it is really an alien looking for a human worthy of hearing its message. As a gesture of goodwill to other species all zoos on Earth are shut down. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
Reprinted | in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 (April 20, 1971) [as "Quando il mostro cammina", Italian translation]; in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #14 (September 1972) [as "Quand la bête marche!", French translation] |
Characters | Sebastian; Vulture |
Synopsis | A dictator pretends that a treasure is cursed in order to get it for himself, but it turns out the treasure is cursed and a ghost takes him. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Reprinted | in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #42 (January 1975) [as "La malédiction!", French translation] |