Writer: Stan Lee and Larry Lieber
Artist: Jack Kirby
"The Man in the Ant Hill"
With this seven page story, we are introduced to Dr. Henry Pym, a scientist whose newest invention is a serum which shrinks any object. In the true fashion of 1960's horror/fantasy, Dr. Pym decides to test the serum out on a living object... himself! Things go quickly wrong, when Pym realizes that he left the antidote out of reach. He panics, runs from and then attacks ants, and eventually tricks an ant into helping him retrieve the antidote serum. Upon returning to normal, Pym destroys the serum, deciding that his potion was far too dangerous.
This story is decidedly not a superhero story. There is no Ant-Man, just Henry Pym the scientist.
The art is fantastic and perfectly captures the horror/fantasy genre.
1 comment:
wow, i did not realize that he debuted no as a super hero or wife beater
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