Issue | #47 |
Published | September 1963 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in June 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]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Trago |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Reprinted | in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002); in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Characters | Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Trago (only appearance); Mr. Cosgrove; Foss (ant); Ghazandi; Korr (ant); Mr. Nehradu; Ramond Theis |
Synopsis | Ant-Man and the Wasp are caught by the music of Trago, the trumpet player, who has learned some mystic use of his trumpet in India. They defeat him at the cost of a brave ant's life. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Ernest Hart (script, as H.E. Huntley) |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
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 | Jasper Milty; Tom Milty |
Synopsis | An old man disgruntled with society becomes rich by discovering uranium. |
Genre | family |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #41 (March 1956) |
Characters | General Chao-Tung |
Synopsis | Asian farmers pray to their gods for a good crop to appease their cruel overlord, and their grain grows so rapidly that it entangles and crushes him. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | Matt Fox |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Characters | Ba-Korr; Sagar |
Synopsis | An alien lands on Earth with the intent of sizing up possible resistance to an invasion force. If the scout does not return within 48 hours, plans for the invasion will be called off. The scout finds the humans puny as potential warriors and is able to lift locomotives off the ground. He laughs as he thinks this will be the easiest conquest ever and heads back to his ship where he finds that it has sunk out of sight in the bog. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Letters | Artie Simek |