Issue | #48 |
Published | October 1963 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alexander Gentry] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Sol Brodsky |
Letters | 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) |
Characters | Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; The Porcupine [Alex Gentry] (introduction, origin) |
Synopsis | The Porcupine decides to rob a burglar-proof bank designed by Henry Pym. So, on the day of its opening, Henry and Janet are there. They have to stop him as Ant-Man and the Wasp. |
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 (February 2002) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Characters | Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas |
Synopsis | A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (June 1955) |
Characters | Harvey Grayson |
Synopsis | A scientist tries to give himself the strength of a gorilla for his own ends. He switches bodies with one instead, and the newly human gorilla sends him to the zoo. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | Matt Fox |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | This is a retelling of "I Am The Gorilla-Man" drawn by Jack Kirby in issue #28 (February 1962). |
Reprinted | in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #65 (October 2, 1973) [as "Il gorilla di Grayson, Italian translation] |
Characters | Jasper Jenks |
Synopsis | An unscrupulous pilot tricks an alien into refitting his plane, but throws the creature out instead of rewarding it. He only then discovers that the alien had not yet explained how to land with the new engine. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Reprinted | in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #66 (October 16, 1973) [as "L'ometto verde", Italian translation] |