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"The Voice of Doom!" |
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Editor-in-Chief: |
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Cover Artists: |
Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers |
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Writers: |
Stan Lee, Larry Lieber |
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Pencilers: |
Don Heck |
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Inkers: |
Don Heck |
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Artie Simek |
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| Cover Date: |
April 1963 |
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| Release Date: |
January 1963 |
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| Story Arc: |
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| Pages: |
13 |
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| Cover Price: |
$0.12 |
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| Times Read: |
286 |
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154 |
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FULL ORDER
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48: Amazing Spider...
#2 (v1)
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49: Fantastic Four
#13 (v1)
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51: Tales of Suspe...
#40
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52: Journey into M...
#92
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| ISSUE BLURB |
Radioactivity released from a atomic plant have implanted in Jason Cragg, a local radio personality, the power of persuasion. Jason throws down the gauntlet against Ant-man to prove his superiority and to take control of Center City!
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| COMMENTS |
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thomassp74 Says: |
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2011-11-20 11:06:48 |
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Is EVERY issue going to begin in the present for a page or two and then go to a flashback? How about some literary device variety?
Radiation traveling through microphones? In the form of "a tiny stream of electrified particle--ionized atoms?"
I did like the fact that people went to buy dog food--for themselves. haha |
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Webslinger Says: |
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2012-04-01 20:32:04 |
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So some nut comes to town and starts poisoning everybody against you with some powerful strange power, ah, who cares, I'm going to the police office get that award they owe me!
Now, about the way Crag uses his voice, well, some people are just dumb and overconfident, not every villain is intelligent.... |
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Dark_Knight93 Says: |
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2012-06-30 21:48:21 |
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As the above poster stated, the dog food part was pretty funny. However one entertaining panel can not save this issue.
I noticed a lot of strange continuity errors in this issue like Ant-Man going to accept an award right after discovering a plot to turn the town against him. Or the part where he changes into Henry Pym only to be Ant-Man again in the very next panel.
Another thing I've notice is that I basically know Jason Cragg just as well as I do Henry Pym. That shows how little they are giving Ant-Man's alter ego any development. |
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Ice Says: |
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2012-07-21 15:56:02 |
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I was initially considering this the absolute low water mark for Silver Age Marvel, until I realized something.
There's a duality between Ant-Man and Craigg. Ant-Man is to ants as Craigg is to humans. They both control others to get what they want. It's just that Ant-Man's army of slaves are ants and Craigg's are humans.
There's a fantastic, if absolutely unintentional, question raised about Ant-Man's motivations, and a debate that can be raised about using (apparently sentient, as they still care about Ant-Man, when he doesn't have his helmet) slave labor to do good (or evil), in this issue. |
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Ice Says: |
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2012-07-21 16:00:49 |
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Also, is NOBODY worried about there being "a nearby atomic experimental laboratory" with faulty dials? I'd think any facility with "atomic" AND "experimental" in the description would be fairly stringent on quality control issues. |
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deeplennon Says: |
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2012-07-22 21:47:38 |
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I just can't figure out why Jason Cragg didn't just his powers to get laid.
More innovative panel work from Heck.
Editors Note: Clothes composed of unstable molecules stretch and contract as the wearer's own body does! |
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jfpj1991 Says: |
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2012-08-16 12:00:19 |
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When you already never have to work again, you just have to keep an extremely low profile, then why even bother with ant-man? Just pan handle once a week and you're guaranteed to bring in thousands of dollars. |
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specialque Says: |
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2012-09-14 13:49:06 |
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This story was dumb, even for early Marvel. If you could hypnotize everyone with your voice, you shouldn't care at all about Ant-Man. In fact, he'd probably be too busy throwing his back out from banging supermodels every night to care. He could also become absurdly rich by "legitimate" means by just hypnotizing random billionaires to give him phoney high-paying jobs. This is going through my head while reading a comic that I KNOW is ridiculous and has a ridiculous main character, so I think the fact that this stuff immediately popped into my mind shows that the story was largely a failure. Also, if Cragg had Ant-Man IN HIS HAND, why didn't he just crush him instead of doing that stupid "drown yourself! derp!" crap?
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While this is probably the worst Ant-Man story yet, I was thinking the same thing that Ice said about Craigg's control of humans and Ant-Man's control of ants. This is actually some pretty deep stuff, even if it's entirely unintentional. Also, there's no way I could hate a comic that has, by far, the most idiotic origin story to date for a super villain...a radioactive microphone.
God bless you, Ant-Man. |
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Phantasmagoria Says: |
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2012-10-23 10:38:22 |
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Ugh. I really dislike the way that Larry Lieber wrote this, but on the bright side, more Don Heck art! |
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Spider-Borg Says: |
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2012-12-01 02:50:07 |
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I didn't think this was as bad as others did. Yeah it is dumb but surprisingly I wanted to find out what happened at the end so it held my interest |
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Dopey Says: |
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2012-12-11 23:34:05 |
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First and foremost, I believe that this is the first reference to Ant-Man/Henry Pym's home city. As I've just jumped into Marvel from the beginning of the Order, I don't know if this is cleared up later on, but I believe that Center City is in Philidelphia? It's good to know, because my obsessive compulsive mind does wonder... And wander.
As stated above, I love Mr. Heck's artwork in this comic. He has an attention to detail that was absent in his previous Ant-Man work, and it is good to see this quality from him. I find this strange break from Kirby quite refreshing.
Personally, I'm fine with Stan giving us a couple appetizer pages that take place in the thick of the story, and then dealing with the intro a couple of pages in. I think it is an effective device that has been proven and is still used today, not only in comics but also in television.
The story itself is no worse than most we've seen so far, and better than more than a few. Ant-Man having to lose his helmet was probably the highlight. I also find it strange that Mr. Cragg found it imperative to single out Ant-Man in order to 'test his power'. And the whole orator costume and soapbox thing was a bit much for some average joe. Up until now, I've viewed Ant-Man as some fascist dictator of ants and sometimes other insects, but my belief has been proven wrong in this comic with the ants making a conscious decision on their own to save his brainwashed hide.
I've had enough of unstable molecules, unexplained radioactive/gamma/atomic/cosmic phenomena, and MAGNETS. Yes, during the time of print technology was hitting it's exponential growth phase, but I mean, come on, Stan.
Also, bottles of laryngitis lying around in hospitals? And an incubation period of less than a minute?
Two stars, the second because Mr. Heck did an exceptional job. |
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metsguy Says: |
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2012-12-17 16:33:55 |
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Even though he was just bluffing, it was pretty stone cold of Ant-Man to threaten to shoot Cragg. A rather grim and gritty moment in fabulous four color. |
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edgar987 Says: |
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2012-12-23 21:15:56 |
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Terrible! But I give it one star for the Don Heck art and his use of panel layouts |
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minicheddaz Says: |
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2013-03-29 16:02:09 |
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this story is so deliciously and ridiculously awful that i absolutely loved it! |
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