| Issue | #42 |
| Published | April 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in January 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Voice [Jason Cragg] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Inks credit changed from Dick Ayers by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, February 2009. Letters credit from George Olshevsky'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) |
| Characters | Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Voice [Jason Cragg] (introduction, origin) |
| Synopsis | A radio spokesman gains a hypnotic voice from radiation, and decides to test it by turning the people against Ant-Man. He captures Ant-Man and forces him to walk off a pier, but the ants rescue the hero, and he beats the Voice with laryngitis. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | The Voice next appears in West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 1985 series) #36 (September 1988). In this story Ant-Man is said to live in "Center City". |
| Reprinted | in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Ezra Bolton; Prof. Carmichael; Prof. Greever |
| Synopsis | A bookkeeper dreams that he is a government agent hunting a mad scientist with a destructive sound device. |
| Genre | spy |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | The first page is printed between the pages of the Ant-Man story, while the second page is printed between "The Eyes of the Mummy!" and "I Am Not Human!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. |
| Reprinted | from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #43 (January 1956) |
| Characters | Harry Sloan; Mrs. Sloan; Sadie |
| Synopsis | A crook steals a jewel from an ancient dummy, but the dead pharoah's hypnotic powers make him see only death until he returns it. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Letters | Terry Szenics |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Average circulation per issue October 1961–September 1962 (issues #28–38, despite monthly cover dates): 139,167. This shares the last page of "Secret Mission". |
| Characters | E-1 |
| Synopsis | A humanoid robot escapes his creator's lab with an artificial face and clothes in order to live among humans as a man. He is so disillusioned with human beings inhumanity to their fellows that he removes the mask and allows his creator to bring him back to the lab. His maker says to him "You must have known you could never have passed for human for long." to which the robot replies to the startled engineer "Has the thought never occurred to you that no robot would want to?" |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005) |