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    Tales to Astonish #39

    Tales to Astonish » Tales to Astonish #39 - Vengeance Of The Scarlet Beetle! released by Marvel on January 1963.

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    Vengeance Of The Scarlet Beetle! 0

    Another astonishingly bad issue in the Tales to Astonish line (almost as bad as that pun, believe me) that fails to add anything to the Pym character, or his alter-ego of Ant-Man. This time he battles with a sentient beetle who manages to use Pym’s growth serum (you know, the one he uses to be big again) in order to overthrow the humans and allow insects to rule the planet. Oh, God! Actually, it’s a pretty neat idea—that if united, insects could exterminate all of mankind, and thus rid themselve...

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    Tales to Astonish hits new lows with issue 39. To begin with, there's the ludicrous Ant-Man feature.Ants are mindlessly loyal - and soft as a down pillow! In it "radiation" turns a beetle smart and evil and it uses Ant-Man's gas to grow huge.Oooh, boy, buckle up, this is going to be a rough ride!The worst guard ever!He controls all the other bugs in the world except, of course, ants. But in the end Ant-Man defeats him.O.K., but is the issue redeemed by the backup stories? Nope.Ozamm the Ter...

    1 out of 5 found this review helpful.

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