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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published March 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in December 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Prisoner of the Slave World!"

Characters Ant-Man [Hank Pym]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Colors Artie Simek
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)

10 page The Astonishing Ant-Man story "Prisoner of the Slave World!"

Characters Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Kulla; Ed Marion ('window washer', named in Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook) Ben Carter; Paul
Synopsis Hank Pym is kidnapped along with other scientists in order to build a super-weapon for a tyrant in another dimension. He sneaks away and transforms into Ant-Man in order to defeat the tyrant.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters Artie Simek
Notes In Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook, this dimension is called Dehnock.
Reprinted in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

2 page text story "Tricky Travel"

Characters Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
Synopsis A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (August 1956)

8 page story "When the Beast Walks!"

Characters Bruno Storme; Shorty Harris
Synopsis An animal-loving reporter saves a four-armed ape from a hunter and discovers that it is really an alien looking for a human worthy of hearing its message. As a gesture of goodwill to other species all zoos on Earth are shut down.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 (April 20, 1971) [as "Quando il mostro cammina", Italian translation]; in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #14 (September 1972) [as "Quand la bête marche!", French translation]

5 page story "The Curse!"

Characters Sebastian; Vulture
Synopsis A dictator pretends that a treasure is cursed in order to get it for himself, but it turns out the treasure is cursed and a ghost takes him.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #42 (January 1975) [as "La malédiction!", French translation]