Comic Book: Tales to Astonish (1964 series)
What This Book is About:
After his failed first book, the Incredible Hulk returns in Tales to Astonish #59. The book includes two stories, one depicting the Hulk, and the other having Ant Man (Giant Man) or the Sub-Mariner as the main character. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee produce most of these issues.
Data Sheet:
Oct 1964 to Mar 1968
1964
N/A
Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Comics Index
Page: 1 of 3
Total Indexed Comics:
68
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
January 1962"The Man in the Ant Hill"
Script: Larry LieberScientist
Hank Pym creates shrinking and growth potions, defying his skeptical colleagues
who thought he would never amount to anything. [...]
September 1962"Return of the Ant-Man!"
Script: Larry LieberAfter his
unpleasant experience with his shrinking formula, scientist Hank Pym locks the
two serums away in his safe but has become fascinated by ants, conducting a
study of them. [...]
October 1962"The Challenge of Comrade X!"
Script: Larry LieberSince the
last issue, Ant-Man has become well known to the public as a mysterious hero
who helps out the police, miraculously knowing when he is needed. [...]
November 1962"Trapped by the Protecter!"
Script: Larry LieberA police
summons goes out from a jewelry shop which is picked up by the ants and relayed
to Ant-Man. Hank suits up, shrinks down, and catapults himself to the shop
where he is caught by the ants and escorted inside now that the police have
taken their report and gone. [...]
December 1962"Betrayed by the Ants!"
Script: Larry LieberThe city’s
underworld is all in a tizzy over Ant-Man’s foiling of their schemes. They hire
Egghead, a disgraced scientist suspected of selling atomic secrets, to destroy
Ant-Man for them. [...]
January 1963"The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle!"
Script: Larry LieberHank Pym
receives several messages from the ants, suggesting that trouble is brewing in
the insect kingdom. As Ant-Man, he goes to check it out and the ants take him
down a sewer where he discovers a huge swarm of insects (“Hundreds of them!”)
gathering around an oddly glowing scarlet beetle. [...]
February 1963"The Day That Ant-Man Failed!"
Script: Larry LieberThe city is
experiencing a wave of hijackings of armored cars, the guards unharmed but
their memories wiped of the robbery details. Howard Mitchell, head of the
company whose trucks are being targeted, berates the police for their lack of
progress and demands that Ant-Man be called in. [...]
March 1963"Prisoner of the Slave-World!"
Script: Larry LieberHank Pym
learns that top scientists have been vanishing mysteriously so he assumes he is
on the list. [...]
April 1963"The Voice of Doom!"
Script: Larry LieberA shabby
looking orator named Jason Cragg comes to town, mounts a soapbox and announces
that Ant-Man is evil and must be destroyed. And all of his listeners are
convinced by his words, except for Ant-Man, who deduces his cybernetic helmet
must be filtering out something in Cragg’s voice…. [...]
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August 1964"The Coming of… Colossus"
Script: Stan LeeHank Pym modifies his cybernetic helmet so he can control his changes into Ant-Man or Giant-Man mentally, thus doing away with the need for capsules. At the same time, Janet Van Dyne shows off her newest Wasp costume. [...]
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