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Issue Details

Issue #46
Published August 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in May 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Cyclops Walks the Earth!"

Characters Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; The Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Cyclops Robot
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
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)

13 page Ant-Man and the Wasp story "..When Cyclops Walks the Earth"

Characters Ant-Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; The Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Cyclops Robot; Kraglin
Synopsis While on vacation in Greece, Ant-Man and the Wasp go after a monster who terrorizes the local sailors. The monster is a robotic cyclops sent by aliens to scout for an invasion.
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)

2 page text story "Ride to the Future"

Characters Harry Benns; Poker; Zealzodo
Synopsis A visitor from outer space helps an unimaginative boy win a new bike in a writing contest.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (August 1956)

5 page story "The Secret of the Swamp!"

Characters Sue; John Marlowe
Synopsis A lonely and plain woman meets a handsome man in the swamp and she marries him, not knowing that he is also ugly and they have been made beautiful to each other by the swamp's magic.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Letters Artie Simek

5 page story "The Most Dangerous Weapon!"

Characters Kowl Korgan
Synopsis In the year 2050 only one weapon remains on display in a museum as a reminder of the violent past. A man with criminal intent plots to steal it and use it to make himself dictator. He steals the gun and threatens to fire it in order to get his way, but his intended victim asks him to let him explain why he should not do so. The criminal refuses to listen and pulls the trigger, disintegrating himself. "Did he really not think we would leave such a weapon unguarded? It is indeed the world's most dangerous weapon, but only to the one who tries to use it."
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek