While
experimenting with his enlarging formula, Hank Pym grows to giant size,
crashing through the walls of his New Jersey lab and terrifying the gardener
who flees for help to the police. Hank has Wasp pop a reducing pill in his moth
so that he returns to normal size. Hank has determined that he can function at
a limit of twelve feet; any larger and he is too heavy to move. And he has now put
his reducing and growth formulas into capsule form….
The
gardener returns with the police but with no giants in sight they dismiss him
as a crank. Meanwhile, they are investigating reports of “a giant pixie” erasing
people. The alien “eraser” is hiding in the woods when he is discovered by a
man selling hot dogs; discovered, the alien swipes his hands through the air
and the man is erased. The cops give up quickly so the Eraser moves on to his
next intended victim, atomic scientist Professor Ebbhart and the man is erased
quickly, leaving only one more name on the Eraser’s list: Henry Pym….
Hank shows
Wasp the various sizes of the enlarging and reducing formulas, color coded for
dosage/effect. He also shows her a dispenser to make it easy to find the
desired dose, She tests it by shrinking to one inch—and then the Eraser wipes
Hank out of sight…
…and he
reappears in another dimension that parallels Earth. Eraser explains that his
world has been monitoring Earth for years, smug in their technological
superiority, until Earth unleashed the atom bomb. Now the aliens want that
secret so they can invade Earth, hence the kidnapped scientists. Hank rebels so
the guards fire “clinging bands” that entangle him. But Hank discovers he has
Wasp in his pocket as he was erased while he was holding her. She pops a
reducing capsule in his mouth, shrinking him to one foot tall. He escapes the
bands and eludes the guards. Pursued by a dog-like hunting creature, he dons
his Ant-Man duds and shrinks down to the usual small size and he and Wasp
escape. They find their way to the dungeon where Wasp destroys the surveillance
camera and Ant-Man grows to explain to the kidnapped scientists (and hot dog
man) the situation. The guards arrive and Hank grows into Giant-Man and
clobbers them, tossing them into a monorail which swiftly carries them away. He
smashes a gun, evades a trap, and climbs to the top of a building where he
fights off and destroys various aircraft a la King Kong (invoked by Hank). Wasp
leads him to the home of the chief scientist and they force him to take them to
the main science lab; Giant-Man is trapped in a huge glass box by the Eraser
who murders the scientist for helping the enemy. Eraser reveals that he has the
only means of sending them back to Earth, a palm-sized device of his own
creation. Wasp frees Giant-Man from the cage and he takes the erasing device,
sneaks back into the dungeon as Ant-Man, and sends them all back to Earth.
“Odd Skills”
Writer:
Unknown. Art: Joe Maneely.
Synopsis: A
draftsman’s work suddenly becomes shoddy and it’s because aliens are
controlling his mind to build them a new spacecraft at night after everyone has
gone home!
“The End of
a World!”
Writer:
Larry Lieber. Plot: Stan Lee. Pencils: Larry Lieber. Inks: George Roussos. Colors:
? Letters: Artie Simek.
Synopsis:
Galactic monarch Zarku decides on an act to make his name remembered forever:
he has his scientists create a nuclear bomb and fly it into a remote sun to
create a supernova, destroying a galaxy. But it turns out his kingdom is a
subatomic one seen only through a microscope!