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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "Music to Scream By!"

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)

13 page Ant-Man and the Wasp story "Music To Scream By"

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)

2 page text story "The Disappearance"

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)

5 page story "The Smiling Gods!"

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

5 page story "Target...Earth!"

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