| Issue | #39 |
| Published | January 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in October 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Scarlet Beetle |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966); in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white] |
| Characters | Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Scarlet Beetle (introduction, origin) |
| Synopsis | Ant-Man fights a beetle made super-intelligent by radiation. It uses Ant-Man's growth gas to become giant, but he is able to defeat it. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | The Scarlet Beetle next appears in Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #44 (January 1972). |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (September 1966); in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (2002) [black and white]; Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm |
| Synopsis | An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Marie Severin |
| Inks | Marie Severin |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustrations. |
| Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #54 (April 1957) |
| Characters | Ozamm; Joe Baxter |
| Synopsis | A factory worker laid off to be replaced by a machine foils a seemingly invincible alien by cutting off his power source. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | John Duffy [as "Johnny Dee"] |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (July 1974) |
| Characters | Billy Barton; Zogg |
| Synopsis | A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Letters credit from George Oshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |
| Reprinted | in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #8 (February 1975); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #2 |