Story #2The Mystery of the Hidden Man and His Rays of Doom!
Writer:
Stan Lee.Penciler:
Bob Powell. Inker:
Chic Stone. Colorist:
Unknown. Letterer:
Art Simek.
Synopsis
Outdoors one day, Giant-Man
spies a loose connection on a power line and grows to one hundred feet to fix
it. Suddenly, he is bathed in a green ray from an odd looking car; the driver
is Loko whose master is the Hidden Man, secure in as secret location as gains
the abilities siphoned off by the green ray, planning to conquer the human
race. But Hank is strong enough of will to fight off the green ray, blowing a
fuse so that Loko is forced to return to base….
Hours later, Giant-Man spies the car
again and seizes it while Loko escapes, returning to be berated by his master
who desire the ability to change his size….
Hank examines the captured car but is
interrupted by Wasp who wants a means of keeping up with Hank when he runs in
his giant size. Hank explains that he has been training a bee to carry him as
Ant-Man so he turns the insect over to Jan, who takes it out on a test flight.
The Hidden Man has been spying on Hank and Jan via the car and dispatches Loko
in a second car to home of Fenton Farnum, the world’s leading authority on bees
and drains him of his knowledge so that the Hidden Man becomes a bee expert and
makes a plan to capture Hank through Janet….
Having hit a snag in his examination
of the alien car, Hank calls in a top physicist for consultation but the man
reveals that he has lost all of this knowledge of physics after being bathed in
a green ray—and he is not the only scientist so afflicted. Hank makes the
connection to his own experience and grows into Giant-Man, ready should the
villain try again. Wasp returns on the bee but the green ray causes the bee to
forget its training and sting Wasp. Hank quickly shrinks to Ant-Man size to
remove the stinger with a giant tweezer when he is bathed in the green ray. He
saves Jan but discovers he can no longer shrink to ant-size though he can still
grow to giant-size. He uses the equipment in the alien car to trace the villain
back to his secret lair. But the Hidden Man sees him coming and shoots him with
a ray gun that knocks the hundred-foot hero to his knees. The Hidden Man sends
Loko to run him down in the street but Giant-Man wrecks the car, saving an
elderly pedestrian’s life and capturing Loko. Hank shrinks to twelve feet and
pursues the villain, catching him despite his shrinking down. Then an alien
ship appears in the sky and bathes Hank in a ray that puts him to sleep; they
then capture Supramor, the Hidden Man, a criminal from their world, and take
him back for punishment, while undoing all the harm he has done. Hanks decides
not to tell Jan what had happened and can hardly believe it himself.