Ant-Man and
Wasp defeat a gang of crooks led by Raymond Theis and save the Star of Ghana,
“largest precious gem in the world” to the gratitude of its owner, Mr. Nehradu.
They start chatting about the powers of Indian mystics; Nehradu admits that
many are fake but one Ghazandi wields music with real hypnotic powers. Later,
after changing into their civvies, they visit a jazz club; Janet is a jazz fan
though the music has no appeal for the serious-minded Hank. The club’s star
attraction, Trago the trumpeter, is caught robbing the owner’s safe; Hank and
Jan quickly don their superhero outfits and capture Trago. He says it was an
impulse crime and the money was returned so the owner decides not to
prosecute—on the condition that Trago leaves the country for India….
In India,
Trago finds Ghahzandi and becomes his pupil, learning how to play music that
hypnotizes. Some time later, he returns to America with a band of musicians who
have been hypnotized into serving him. At a small club in Connecticut, he plays
his trumped sending the audience into a trance and orders his band to steal
their valuables. When finished, Trago brings them out of the trance and no one,
band or audience, remembers a thing. The test successful, Trago sets his sights
on New York City….
Trago
hypnotizes a New York TV station director to get his combo on TV so his
sinister music is heard by the entire city, including Hank and Janet. They
shrink to avoid the music and before he passes out, Hank summons his right-hand
ant Korr. Korr and the other ants carry Ant-Man and Wasp into a burrow to get
them away from the music. Korr dispatches his gang to loot banks and also sends
reptiles to find and kill Ant-Man and Wasp. A snake slithers down into the
burrow after Hank and Janet but Korr fights him, dying of his injuries. Ant-Man
uses his reducing gas to shrink the snake to worm size. Ant-Man summons Korr’s
brother Foss to fly him along with Wasp to the TV station. They encounter
Trago’s henchmen and Wasp puts them to sleep with her sting. Ant-Man enters the
studio and discovers he has no more enlarging gas and so he must dodge Trago
between the keys of a piano; recalling that Nehrandu said that if Ghahzandi
played the wrong notes he would hypnotize himself, Ant-Man enters Trago’s
trumpet and causes enough damage that the villain indeed puts himself into a
trance. All evil is wiped from Trago’s mind and no one in the city remembers
what happened. Trago goes on to be a regular jazz man and Hank broods about the
heroic sacrifice of his ant Korr….
“The
Disappearance”
Writer:
Unknown. Art: Gene Colan.
Synopsis:
Sick of the modern world, an old man becomes a hermit in the mountains; then
his grandson sends him a Geiger counter and the old man becomes a successful
uranium miner!
“The Smiling
Gods!”
Writer:
Larry Lieber. Plot: Stan Lee. Pencils: Larry Lieber. Inks: Matt Fox. Colors: ?
Letters: Artie Simek.
Synopsis: A
general takes over a rural village in Southeast Asia and demands that the
peasants supply him with increasing amounts of crops. The villagers pray to
their idols and the crops grow so fast they trap and smother the general!
“Target…Earth!”
Writer:
Stan Lee. Art: Steve Ditko. Colors: ? Letters: Artie Simek.
Synopsis:
The Warlord of the planet Klang sends their greatest warrior Sagar to scout out
Earth for invasion. He lands his ship in a remote area, scopes out Earth’s
defenses, and is trapped because he landed his ship on quicksand! Not hearing
from him, the Warlord calls off the invasion!