Tales to Astonish #46
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFrom the Marvel Age of Comics comes this vivid 1963 showdown: the cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers delivers a breathtaking image of a mountain-sized, one-eyed Cyclops hoisting an entire sailing vessel from the ocean while tiny crewmen scramble across its deck in panic. Ant-Man and the Wasp — both shown in full costume at the foreground — dart through the chaos, their speech bubbles capturing the urgent, charming banter that made early Marvel so distinctive. It's a wonderfully outsized premise that pairs the Marvel Age's taste for mythic menace with its smallest heroes, and the result is exactly the kind of imaginative spectacle that made Tales to Astonish such a treat in 1963.
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In the year 2050 only one weapon remains on display in a museum as a reminder of the violent past. A man with criminal intent plots to steal it and use it to make himself dictator. He steals the gun and threatens to fire it in order to get his way, but his intended victim asks him to let him explain why he should not do so. The criminal refuses to listen and pulls the trigger, disintegrating himself. "Did he really not think we would leave such a weapon unguarded? It is indeed the world's most dangerous weapon, but only to the one who tries to use it."
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