Comics:Tales to Astonish Vol 1 27

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"The Man in the Ant Hill!"

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Tales to Astonish Vol 1 #27
January, 1962

Editor-in-Chief

Stan Lee

Cover Artists

Jack Kirby

Writers

Stan Lee, Larry Lieber

Pencilers

Jack Kirby

Inkers

Dick Ayers

Letterers

John Duffy

Editors

Stan Lee

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"Never again did Henry Pym knowingly step upon an ant hill. For he knew that somewhere beneath him ... was one little insect—one small ant, to whom he owed his very life!"

-- narrator

Appearing in "The Man in the Ant Hill!"

Featured Characters:

• Henry Pym (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• various scientists

Locations:

• Henry Pym's laboratory

Items:

• reducing and enlarging serums

Synopsis for "The Man in the Ant Hill!"

Doctor Henry Pym declares success! He has successfully used his reducing serum to shrink a chair to doll size and used his enlarging serum to return it to normal size. Pym had been ridiculed months ago by his peers for his outlandish theories, but now has perfected a pair of serums capable of changing the size of any object. Confident that his serums work, Pym tests them on himself.

Placing a few drops of reducing serum on his arm, Henry Pym quickly shrinks. Now ant-sized, he realizes that he left the enlarging serum on the window sill; it might as well be on the moon. He goes out into the yard. Ants sense his presence and move toward him. Pym, still not thinking clearly, runs into an ant hill. Fleeing blindly through the tunnels, he falls into a shaft and lands in a pool of honey. Hopelessly trapped, he spots an ant crawling towards him. To Pym’s surprise, the ant pulls him free from the honey and lets him go unharmed. More ants appear. Pym notices a matchstick set in the ground and, hoping to create a diversion, throws a pebble at it. His aim is true, and the match lights.

Pym fashions a lasso and climbs up to a ledge. There another ant grabs him in its mandibles. Pym uses judo to flip the ant over the ledge and scrambles upward. Once out of the ant hill, with the colony in hot pursuit, he sees the friendly ant who saved him earlier. He points upward to tell the ant where he needs to go. The ant climbs the wall with Pym aboard. He wades into the test tube with the serum and immediately returns to normal. Convinced that his invention is dangerous, he dumps his serums down the drain.

Notes

Henry Pym appears next (as Ant-Man) in Tales to Astonish #35.

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Discuss Tales to Astonish Vol 1 27 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Tales to Astonish series

Recommended Reading

• None.

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