After a
lengthy recap of Egghead’s battle with Ant-Man, we pick up the baddie where we
left him, in a skid row rooming house. There he overhears two crooks, Twisty
and Ape, complaining about being defeated by Ant-Man and he (eventually) talks
them into a scheme to destroy the tiny hero, using his new partner Wasp to do
it. Egghead first establishes himself as entomologist Carl Striker, becoming
famous enough through his lectures to be invited to build a wasp exhibit at the
zoo—in the reptile house, no less. Then he sends Twister and Ape to steal the
famous Middleton diamond, using his device that scrambles ant messages to
prevent Ant-Man from learning about it. By the time Ant-Man and Wasp arrive at
the jeweler’s, the crooks are long gone. After talking his henchmen out of
fencing the diamond and leaving Ant-Man alone, Egghead baits the trap. Janet
Van Dyne comes to check out the wasp exhibit and spots the diamond inside; she
decides to catch the crooks and recover the diamond herself to prove to Ant-Man
she’s not “a scatterbrained little girl.” That night, Wasp shows up, enters the
exhibit and is trapped in a maze; so she contacts Ant-Man who arrives and is
trapped in a glass cage with a huge iguana. Egghead provides Ant-Man with an
ant and a straight pin to fight the iguana like St. George and the dragon and the
hero wins. He frees Wasp and then Egghead releases his secret weapon, an
anteater! Trapped by electrified wires around the room, Ant-Man lassos the
beast and uses his full-grown strength to whip it around and hurl it at the
baddies. The two heroes take down Twister and Ape while Egghead escapes. Hank
scolds Janet about going off alone while she moons over him and Egghead vows
revenge.
“The Future”
Writer:
Unknown. Art: Unknown.
Synopsis: A
TV quizmaster accidentally steps into a futuristic world and when he returns to
his own time, he is carrying a page of questions from the future!
“Bronson’s
Brain!”
Writer:
Stan Lee. Art: Steve Ditko. Colors: ? Letters: Artie Simek.
Synopsis:
The smartest man on Earth grows so arrogant that he travels to a distant planet
looking for intellectual equals and lands on a world so advanced that he is
considered a helpless moron!
“It Walks
Like a Man!”
Writer: Robert
Bernstein. Plot: Stan Lee. Pencils: Paul Reinman. Inks: Paul Reinman. Colors:?
Letters: Terry Szenics.
Synopsis: A
little girl considers her robot companion Carlo the Clown to be her best
friend, worrying her parents until the robot sacrifices itself to save her from
harm! Set in 1973!