Volume: 1
Price: 0.12 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1963-08-01
Editing: Stan Lee (editor)
This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

The Birth of Giant-Man!

Ant-Man and the Wasp / comic story / 18 pages

Script:
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils:
Jack Kirby (credited)
Inks:
Don Heck (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)

    Genre:superhero
Characters:
Professor Ebbhart; Pat
Synopsis:
While Henry Pym develops capsules that permit him to become giant-size as well as ant-size, the Eraser captures him and brings him to Dimension Z along with other scientists to build atomic weapons. Giant-Man defeats their captors and rescues the scientists.
Reprints (15)

Indexer Notes

This story places Henry Pym's lab and base in the New Jersey Palisades. Living Eraser next appears in Marvel Two-in-One (Marvel, 1974 series) #15. (Living Eraser note added by Scott Harrison, December 2008, via GCD Errors list.)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Joe Maneely (signed as M.)
Inks:
Joe Maneely (signed as M.)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

  • Genre:science fiction
  • Job Number:[J-216]
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When a man who has been very competent suddenly becomes slipshod, there's usually a reason.
Characters:
Jim Branner; Bill Toney
Synopsis:
The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The End of a World!

comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Stan Lee (credited) (plot)
Larry Lieber (credited) (script)
Pencils:
Larry Lieber (credited)
Inks:
George Roussos (credited as G. Bell)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Artie Simek (credited)

    Genre:science fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In a far-distant galaxy, whose very existence is unknown to us, there sits...
  • Keywords:delta anti-matter
Characters:
Zarku
Synopsis:
A ruler orders the destruction of an uninhabited galaxy as a tribute to his power. The explosion in the microscopic universe is witnessed through a microscope by a boy as an unimportant anomaly.
Reprints (6)
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