Marvel Released December 1962

Tales to Astonish #38 (1962) First Print

Tales to Astonish #38 is an issue of the Tales to Astonish series from Marvel, released December 1, 1962. Written by Stan Lee with artwork by Jack Kirby. Notable appearances include Ant-Man (Pym), Egghead. This page represents the regular first-print edition. Separate pages are available for the 1 incentive, retailer-exclusive and later-printing variant cover.

Low

$50

Mid

$150

High

$790

Published December 1962

Pages 32

Features Include:Betrayed By The Ants!A group of crooks, hire a scientist called "Egghead" to find a way to defeat Ant-Man. Egghead, builds a device that works like Ant-Mans helmet and gets some ants to lure Ant-Man into a trap of flypaper. However, Ant-Man is not trapped and jumps out of the trap and attacks the crooks.Ant-Man then has ants, who were on the ceiling, drop a giant sheet of fly paper on the crooks. The crooks try to escape, but their cars tires are flat and the keys gone. They are captured by the police, but Egghead escapes.The ants had told Ant-Man about Egghead’s plot and allowed Ant-Man to prepare for the trap and sabatoge their carStrange MissionI Found the Impossible WorldThe Secret of the Statues