Dates
- Cover date
- September 1963
- On sale
- June 4, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #47 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
- Music to Scream By · 13 pages
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.
- The Disappearance · 2 pages
An old man disgruntled with society becomes rich by discovering uranium.
- The Smiling Gods! · 5 pages
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.
- Target...Earth! · 5 pages
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.
Characters
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Sinister Tales (1964), Terrific! (1967), Crazy Magazine (1973), Essential Ant-Man (2002), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2006), Ant-Man & Wasp: Small World (2011), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2013), Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (2015), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)