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Tales to Astonish #41

Marvel · Series began 1959 · March 1963

Dates

Cover date
March 1963
On sale
December 3, 1962
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #41 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieberpencils: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Steve Ditkoinks: Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

  • Prisoner of the Slave World! · 10 pages

    Henry Pym is kidnapped along with other scientists in order to build a super-weapon for a tyrant in another dimension. He sneaks away and transforms into Ant-Man in order to defeat the tyrant.

  • Tricky Travel · 2 pages

    A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.

  • When the Beast Walks! · 8 pages

    An animal-loving reporter saves a four-armed ape from a hunter and discovers that it is really an alien looking for a human worthy of hearing its message. As a gesture of goodwill to other species all zoos on Earth are shut down.

  • The Curse! · 5 pages

    A dictator pretends that a treasure is cursed in order to get it for himself, but it turns out the treasure is cursed and a ghost takes him.

Characters

Hank PymAnt-ManKulla

Reprinted in

Creepy Worlds (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Hulk Comic (1979), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), 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)

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