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Issue Details

Issue #35
Published September 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in June 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Return of the Ant Man!"

Characters Ant-Man [Henry Pym]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Letters credit from George Oleshevky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

5 page Ant-Man story "Return of the Ant-Man"

Characters Ant-Man [Henry Pym] (origin, first appearance as Ant-Man)
Synopsis Henry Pym invents an anti-radiation gas, that attracts the attention of communist spies. Henry eluedes them by shrinking himself once again.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee; Larry Lieber
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters John Duffy
Notes Part 1 of 3. Origin re-cap continuing from the story in Tales to Astonish #27 where Henry Pym was introduced. Letters credit from George Oleshevky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (1964); in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

2 page text story "Strange Encounter"

Characters Andre Corday
Synopsis An American tourist in Paris is unwittingly targeted by a spy as an intelligence courier and is nearly killed.
Genre spy
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Spy Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #4 (May 1955)

5 page Ant-Man story "An Army of Ants!"

Characters Ant Man [Henry Pym]
Synopsis Henry Pym learns how to command ants to do his bidding and frees his captured assistants, with the help of the ants.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee; Larry Lieber
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters John Duffy
Notes Part 2 of 3. Letters credit from George Oleshevky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1; in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

3 page Ant-Man story "The Ant-Man's Revenge!"

Characters Ant-Man [Henry Pym]
Synopsis Henry Pym invents an anti-radiation gas, that attracts the attention of communist spies. Henry eluedes them by shrinking himself once again.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee; Larry Lieber
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters John Duffy
Notes Part 3 of 3. Letters credit from George Oleshevky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #1; in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

5 page story "The Doorway to Nowhere!"

Characters Hugo Cragg
Synopsis After escaping from jail, Hugo Cragg heads for a deserted mansion to hide out until the heat is off. Then he discovers a strange closet in the house: after he puts something into it, the object disappears! He figures that if the objects disappear into another dimension, why not go there himself to hide from the Police? He does, but becomes two-dimensional.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Title confirmed as "The Doorway to Nowhere" by Tom Lammers (August 2007), plus original art sold on Heritage Auctions in 2005.
Reprinted in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #15 [as "The Doorway"]

5 page story "The Thing From Outer Space!"

Characters Col. John Rogers
Synopsis An explorer returns to Earth with a telepathic plant, which claims that it is the real human, and that their minds have been swapped. The switch is reversed, and the planet quarantined.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters John Duffy
Notes Narrated in the first person by the plant.