A 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….
Flashback: Jason
Cragg was a mediocre radio announcer when an accident at a nearby atomic
laboratory accidentally released particles that were picked up by Cragg’s
microphone and transferred to his voice. After that, Jason Cragg discovered he
could compel anyone to believe or obey anything he said so he quit his job and
traveled to Center City, forcing people to support him on the way. There he
learned of Ant-Man and made it his challenge to defeat the tiny hero….
Cragg goes
to police headquarters where Ant-Man is being presented with an award for
meritorious service. Cragg tells the cops that Ant-Man must be arrested and
Hank escapes with the help of the ants. Cragg then has the police recruit
vigilante groups to search for Ant-Man. The mob catches up with him in a field
where they are using magnets in an attempt to pick Ant-Man up by his helmet.
Ant-Man discards his helmet and gas cannisters to avoid the magnets but when
they are found, Cragg orders Ant-Man to surrender. Without the protection of
his helmet, Hank is vulnerable so he hands himself over to the villain who
commands him to drown himself in the river. Hank jumps off the pier but he is
rescued by the ants and carried back to his lab where he returns to his normal
size….
Jason Cragg
schedules a radio broadcast for the following night so Hank conceives a plan.
That night Ant-Man sneaks into a hospital and steals a bottle of germs. At the
broadcast, Ant-Man steps out from behind Cragg’s ear and tells him that ants
have a gun pointed at him to force him to say that Ant-Man is a good guy.
Cragg, assuming he can always reverse things later, does so—and then Ant-Man
sprays his mouth with germs causing laryngitis. His powers gone, Cragg is
thrown out of town.
“Secret
Mission”
Writer:
Unknown.
Synopsis: A
government agent tracks down and defeats a mad scientist threatening the world
with a sonic ray—but it’s all the dream of a meek (and bored) bookkeeper!
“The Eyes
of the Mummy!”
Writer:
Larry Lieber. Plot: Stan Lee. Art: Joe Sinnott. Colors: ? Letters: Terry
Szenics.
Synopsis: A
thief steals a fabulous gem from a mummy at the museum and is hypnotized into
seeing everyone as mummies until he returns the gem!
“I Am Not
Human!”
Writer:
Stan Lee. Art: Steve Ditko. Colors: ? Letters: Artie Simek.
Synopsis: A
robot passes himself off as human until he discovers the madness and folly of
the human race and then he gladly returns to the lab where he was created!