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"...When Cyclops Walks the Earth" |
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Editor-in-Chief: |
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Cover Artists: |
Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers |
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Writers: |
Stan Lee, H.E. Huntley |
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Pencilers: |
Don Heck |
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Inkers: |
Don Heck |
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| Letterers: |
Sam Rosen |
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| Cover Date: |
August 1963 |
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| Release Date: |
May 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: |
265 |
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| Times Rated: |
141 |
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FULL ORDER
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68: Fantastic Four
#17 (v1)
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69: Journey into M...
#95
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71: Tales of Suspe...
#44
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72: Fantastic Four
#18 (v1)
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| ISSUE BLURB |
The veil of time opens and from it steps out a one eyed monster from Greek mythology, the Cyclops! Against this menace to mankind and modern civilization there stands only the Ant-man and his companion the Wasp.
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thomassp74 Says: |
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2011-11-22 11:56:44 |
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How did Ant-Man use a catapult to launch FROM his house, fly across the city, and then land AT his house? |
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Daredevil Says: |
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2012-07-02 07:09:05 |
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The dialogue in this is just awful e.g.
Ant: Do you wish transportation to your rooms?
Antman: Not this time! I will ascend in my elevator! |
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Dark_Knight93 Says: |
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2012-07-03 20:16:13 |
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I never thought I'd find myself wanting Stan Lee to do the script again. I enjoyed Ant-Man slightly more under Stan's writing for whatever reason.
Anyways this story has so much going against it; overly long dialog (and bad dialog at that), cheesy alien invaders, and robots. I'll be happy when these Henry Pym stories end. |
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aramina Says: |
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2012-07-08 04:33:24 |
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Did the ants talk in an earlier issue and I've just erased it from my memory? Also I feel like this issue tried way too hard to be educational about word origins and greek mythology. |
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Ice Says: |
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2012-07-22 22:04:29 |
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I had one of those idiot moments, reading this.
Pym starts talking to the ants,in Greece, and I thought, "Wait. Wouldn't the ants speak Greek?" |
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jfpj1991 Says: |
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2012-08-16 13:33:07 |
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A robot and aliens in the same issue...what a treat.... |
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specialque Says: |
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2012-09-16 10:17:33 |
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The Cyclops is a robot? Man, what a cheat. The Wasp was really good in this issue, and a lot less annoying than I remember from her later appearances. Overall it was ok. |
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sputnix Says: |
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2012-09-20 02:02:37 |
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I was hoping it was the cyclops from FF #9 regardless it was an ok antman issue not as hilariously bad as previous issues |
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Phantasmagoria Says: |
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2012-10-27 17:45:02 |
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You know, despite this story's similarity to Tales of Suspense # 40 "Iron Man versus Gargantus" which I loathe, I kind of enjoy it. It has some charming bits, like Henry saying that he "can't picture his life" without Jan. I give this issue 3 stars, despite the fact that it totally doesn't deserve it. |
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Maidel Says: |
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2012-12-09 17:13:01 |
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Oh jeez, so ant man can fly now. The run of really bad comics continues! |
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metsguy Says: |
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2012-12-25 11:55:24 |
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The only thing this issue was missing was communists. Too bad the aliens weren't communist aliens. |
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Anonymous Says: |
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2013-01-11 22:52:17 |
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I didn't find this issue to be as bad as most have seemed to think of it. There were many good things about this issue, but I feel that the problem was the one [Gigantus] thing that was wrong with it that has made so many despair. When I say Gigantus, I mean gigantic.
Henry Pym's catapult is, however, beyond belief. The guy shoots himself out of it in a straight line and lands unerringly on a pile of his friends every time! And are we expected to believe that it is the wind that turns him in different directions or something? He always seems to end up just where he wants to go, regardless... I was hoping that with the arrival of flying ants, this nonsense with the canon would be cut, but it doesn't look too good.
Ant-Man and the Wasp have to battle a mythological Greek monster, the cyclops - by the way, cyclops derived from the Greek 'kyklops' or 'round-eye', were a race of giants that forged thunderbolts for Zeus and built the walls of Mycenae. It sounds and looks to be an exciting story for about two pages. Then you read how Ant-Man notices the erratic movements of the the giant being, "almost mechanical", and immediately your brain thinks: 'aaaww shucks, not another giant invincible robot controlled by an alien race out to conquer Earth!'. You flip the page, and find out that indeed, the cyclops is in fact a giant invincible robot controlled by an alien race bent on the conquest of the planet. However, this time, the invincible robot is overtaken by a being the size of a hexapoda - any six legged arthropod, mainly of the 'insecta' scientific grouping - who can hack into the robots "frequency" and take control. |
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Anonymous Says: |
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2013-01-11 22:52:52 |
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Now, these were the only two problems I'd had with this particular issue. Everything else was pretty good in my opinion, and it's a shame that the two negatives were so glaring, because I definitely would have adjusted the rating in favour of this issue had they not been. One more tiny problem was Stan's stolidity in that he had to bend the comic into an educational direction with all of his explanations regarding word origins...
I was a fan of the dialogue. For the early sixties this wasn't bad at all. Jan is quickly becoming my favourite character. Brash, young, and eager to please. She's what a lot of us want in a woman today, almost 50 years later. She's kept her 'stinger', has developed the ability to communicate with wasps - another type of hexapod - and personally, what I feel most important, was the first of the duo to say "fcuk staying small in public, that is preposterous!" And sniffing up some growth gas to help people in need in the midst of the action. Two issues later, the birth of Giant Man... I dunno, I'm giving the credit to Jan, whom I would break up with my girlfriend for any day.
Ant-Man still has his lasso. Good continuity. He also uses the flying ants once again. Just like a Pegasus. By the way, a Pegasus is a Greek mythological creature. Derived from the Ancient Greek 'pegasos', or 'spring, flowing water' just as the mythological Pegasus did from Medusa's blood after Perseus slit her throat.
Don Heck must have been giddy penciling this comic. With the Greek setting, it's a very refreshing feel. Aliens, robots, and bugs. Oh my.
One star for Heck's contribution. One star for Stan Lee getting the duo out of Center City. One star for Jan kickinga**and being a PYT. |
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Spider-Borg Says: |
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2013-02-03 01:48:40 |
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If you can get past the tired alien invasion trope then this is actually a decent story... Too bad I couldn't do that though |
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Bruce Banner Says: |
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2013-02-15 15:02:57 |
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Fair issue. So tired of single issue aliens... |
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rebelmswar Says: |
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2013-02-25 07:18:08 |
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Earth is obviously the intergalactic version of Poland.
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