After 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. He uncovers the secrets of ant communication and constructs a
cybernetic helmet which allows him to contact and communicate with them and
also devises a protective suit to wear while communing with the ants….
Shortly afterward,
Hank is assigned by the government to create a gas to make people immune to
radioactivity and given four assistants to help him. A foreign power learns of
this and dispatches their spies in the US to capture Hank and his assistants
and steal the formula. Hanks refuses to comply and tells them that none of the
assistants knows the whole formula. The spies plan to search the lab and take
Hanks’ notes then blow up the place and make it look like a science lab
accident. Hanks has a plan to defeat the bad guys: he dons the Ant-Man suit,
shrinks using his potions, and shoots himself onto the windowsill with a rubber
band. He crawls under the closed sash and heads to the anthill to recruit ant
allies for his mission. One ant gives him trouble so Hank clobbers him and
discovers that while tiny, he has retained his full strength. Ant-Man and the
ants return to the house, Hank beating up a beetle that gets in their way.
Ant-Man unties the captive scientists while the ants sting the baddies and cork
up their guns with honey. The freed scientists beat up the spies and take them
prisoner. Hank heads to the next room, regains his normal size, and they call security.
Hank wonders if he will ever need to become Ant-Man again….
“Strange
Encounter”
Writer:
Unknown. Art: Joe Maneely.
Synopsis:
An American tourist in Paris is mistaken for a government courier by a Russian
spy and taken prisoner. Not to worry, the French police have been following the
Commie and rescue the hero!
“The Doorway
to Nowhere!”
Writer:
Stan Lee. Art: Steve Ditko. Colors: Stan Goldberg. Letters: Artie Simek.
Synopsis: A
criminal breaks into an old deserted house and discovers that a closet is the
gateway to another dimension; he steps through and is trapped in a formless
alien world forever!
“The Thing
from Outer Space!”
Writer:
Larry Lieber. Plot: Stan Lee. Art: Don Heck. Colors: Stan Goldberg. Letters:
Artie Simek.
Synopsis: A
space explorer returns to Earth with an alien plant but the plant claims by
telepathy that it is the astronaut, the plant having exchanged identities. The
astronaut claims otherwise and it is revealed that the plant did indeed swap
their minds but was unaware of it and really thought it was the human. The
plant is sent home and that planet quarantined! Set in 2006!