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Tales to Astonish #42

Marvel · Series began 1959 · April 1963

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WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT

The Voice (Jason Cragg) — introduction, also origin in flashback

Dates

Cover date: April 1963
On sale: January 10, 1963
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #42 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition12¢ cover
Source ↗
UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

British

Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators

script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieberpencils: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Steve Ditkoinks: Sol Brodsky, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, Terry Szenics

Stories

The Voice of Doom! · 13 pages
A radio spokesman gains a hypnotic voice from radiation, and decides to test it by turning the people against Ant-Man. He captures Ant-Man and forces him to walk off a pier, but the ants rescue the hero, and he beats the Voice with laryngitis.
Secret Mission · 1.75 pages
A bookkeeper dreams that he is a government agent hunting a mad scientist with a destructive sound device.
The Eyes of the Mummy! · 5 pages
A crook steals a jewel from an ancient mummy, but the dead pharaoh's hypnotic powers make him see only death until he returns it.
I Am Not Human! · 5 pages
A humanoid robot escapes his creator's lab with an artificial face and clothes in order to live among humans as a man. He is so disillusioned with human beings inhumanity to their fellows that he removes the mask and allows his creator to bring him back to the lab. His maker says to him "You must have known you could never have passed for human for long." to which the robot replies to the startled engineer "Has the thought never occurred to you that no robot would want to?"

Characters

Hank PymAnt-ManJason CraggThe Voice

Reprinted in

Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Creepy Worlds (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Hulk Comic (1979), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), The Empire Strikes Back Monthly (1980), Star Wars Summer Special (1983), Essential Ant-Man (2002), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2005), 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), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2019)