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Tales to Astonish #38 (of 101)

Betrayed By The Ants!
December 31st, 1962

Tales to Astonish #38 (of 101)

Betrayed By The Ants!
December 31st, 1962

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38 (of 101)
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Betrayed By The Ants!
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Cover date:
December 31st, 1962
Store date:
September 11th, 1962
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The first appearance of Ant-Man's most dastardly foe -- the criminally brilliant Egghead!

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  • Betrayed By The Ants! - (Lee / Lieber / Kirby / Ayers) A group of crooks, hire a scientist called "Egghead" to find a way to defeat Ant-Man. Egghead, builds a device that works like Ant-Mans helmet and gets some ants to lure Ant-Man into a trap of flypaper. However, Ant-Man is not trapped and jumps out of the trap and attacks the crooks. Ant-Man then has ants, who were on the ceiling, drop a giant sheet of fly paper on the crooks. The crooks try to escape, but their cars tires are flat and the keys gone. They are captured by the police, but Egghead escapes. The ants had told Ant-Man about Egghead’s plot and allowed Ant-Man to prepare for the trap and sabotoge their car
  • "I Found the Impossible World!" - (Lee / Lieber / Heck) an attempt at time travel is a failure... or is it?
  • Secret of the Statues - (Lee / Ditko) Some artists discover a reclusive sculptor and tell an art critic about him.
  • Strange Mission - (unknown) Prose story about a timid man who ends up accidentally becoming a hero

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