Dates
- Cover date
- February 1963
- On sale
- November 8, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #40 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators
Stories
- The Day That Ant-Man Failed! · 11 pages
Ant-Man investigates a series of hijackings. He pretends to be sick to lure the hijacker into the open, and finds out that it's the owner of the armored car company.
- I Was Trapped in the Mad Universe! · 7 pages
A boy finds a device from the future that transports him to an alternate dimension with nearly identical versions of him and his family.
- Bird Talk · 2 pages
A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
- The Worst Man on Earth! · 5 pages
A criminal in the year 2000 is sentenced to be exiled from humanity for his various crimes as the death penalty has been abolished. He mocks his accusers since he has prepared a micro-drill built into his finger that will get the door of his cell open eventually. When he does succeed in getting it open, he wishes he hadn't, as it turns out his cell had been placed in orbit around the planet.
Characters
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel's Greatest Comics (1969), The Empire Strikes Back Weekly (1980), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Mystic (1960), Weird Planets (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Uncanny Tales (1963), Marvel Tales (1966), Hulk Comic (1979), Essential Ant-Man (2002), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2006), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2013), Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (2015), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)