Giant-Man
returns home, having made the decision to ask Janet to marry him, shrinking to
Ant-Man size to examine the diamond engagement ring he bought her. When Wasp
arrives, Hank is so nervous that Janet tries to make him jealous by telling him
she is going to a society party where rich guy Sterling Stuyvesant is likely to
propose. But Hank draws the opposite conclusion, deciding she could never love
a poor adventurer and so he determines to keep his love to himself. The ants
contact him with a warning about a villainous magician who is now at the
apartment building where Sterling Stuyvesant lives so as Ant-Man, Hank heads
out….
At the
party, Sterling Stuyvesant wants to propose to Janet but she brushes him off so
he moves on to the entertainment. A magician called The Magician puts on his
act, working all sorts of wonders, until he drops a giant canvas on the
assembled partygoers and picks their pockets while they are trapped. Jan
transforms into the Wasp and confronts the baddie but he has a trick cane that
sucks her into a small compartment and traps her. The Magician then vanishes as
mysteriously as he arrived….
Ant-Man
arrives, too late to do anything so he insults Stuyvesant and goes home. Unable
to locate the bad guy via his ant network, Hank decides to set a trap. He sends
out invitations to the popular social set, inviting them to a party aboard a
yacht. The night of the party, he has a launch take the guests to a different
yacht while waiting for the Magician alone aboard another yacht. The Magician
arrives, Giant-Man reveals himself, Magician throws a cape over GM’s head and
escapes to his camouflaged dirigible overhead. Giant-Man prepares to follow but
a sailboat is in trouble nearby and he is compelled to rescue the passengers
first. Ant-Man climbs the rope to the airship, confronts the baddie (again) as
Ant-Man, rescues Wasp, has an attack rabbit set on him, turns into Giant-Man
and scares off the attack rabbit, and pursues the bad guy while Wasp lets the
air out of the dirigible. It crashes into the river, the Magician is picked up
by the police and Ant-Man comes sailing down on a paper airplane. Hank and Jan
confess their love for one another….
“The
Balloon [Part One]”
Writer:
Unknown.
Synopsis: A
little boy finds a balloon that appears to have a tiny man inside! Story
continues next issue.
“Beware the
Bog Beast!”
Writer:
Larry Lieber. Plot: Stan Lee. Pencils: Larry Lieber. Inks: Paul Reinman.
Colors: ? Letters: Art Simek.
Synopsis:
Wasp interrupts Giant-Man with a riddle: A king promises his sister’s hand in
marriage to any man who can cross the bridge to her island and defeat the bog
beast guarding her. Her one true love figures it out: have her cross the bridge
the beast is too heavy to walk on to meet him!