You just got STUNG!: The Wasp Appreciation

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Tales to Astonish #46 Aug 1963
"...When Cyclops Walks the Earth"
With a lull in crime, Henry Pym and Janet Van Dyne decide to take a vacation. Traveling to Greece,
they hear stories of a giant monster that has been reported to be stealing ships from sea,
which makes them unable to get someone to take them to the island. However, one man later lends them one.

Renting a boat and assuming their guises of Ant-Man and the Wasp, the two heroes seek to solve the mystery of this apparent sea monster.

While out at sea, they are attacked by what appears to be a Cyclops of Greek myth.
Shrinking down to ant-size so as not to be noticed by the giant creature, the heroes allow the monster to capture their boat.
The monster brings them to an island where they find all the missing people are being held captive by the monster Cyclops.

While exploring the island, they discover that aliens are plotting to take over the Earth (believe it or not),
and that they've captured the fishermen and sailors in order to study them.
They also learn that the cyclops is actually a robot the aliens created to capture their specimens.
The aliens, known as A-Chiltarians, surmise that the Human race is inferior to themselves and, thus easy prey for global conquest.
The invaders order the Cyclops to destroy the Humans on the island.

Ant-Man sends the Wasp to free the sailors while he tries to find a way to stop the Cyclops.

Entering into its mechanisms through the robot's mouth, Ant-Man realises that he can control the Cyclops by adjusting the frequency of his helmet.
He then uses the Cyclops to free the sailors, and scare away the aliens, leaving them to believe that Humans are more powerful than they had originally posited.

With the aliens defeated, and the sailors free, Ant-Man commands the Cyclops to walk to the bottom of the ocean to be lost at sea forever.
Ant-Man and Wasp return to the mainland where they enjoy their vacation for a few days before returning home.

Script by Stan Lee and Ernie Hart [as H. E. Huntley], art by Don Heck

[Digifiend]

Antennae sprout when she shrinks? Just the wings nowadays isn't it - they must've retconned the antennae to being part of the costume later. She NEVER has them when she has no helmet.

[Dermie]

Antennae sprout when she shrinks? Just the wings nowadays isn't it - they must've retconned the antennae to being part of the costume later. She NEVER has them when she has no helmet.

No, they weren't retconned away--they just got dropped as something she doesn't use often. I think the last time she used them was back in John Byrne's WCA run, and she had to really concentrate to make the antennae emerge that time because she hadn't done it in so long.

[Michael Watkins]

No, they weren't retconned away--they just got dropped as something she doesn't use often. I think the last time she used them was back in John Byrne's WCA run, and she had to really concentrate to make the antennae emerge that time because she hadn't done it in so long.

she was mostly insect (antennae included) before Onslaught "fixed" everything.

[Digifiend]

Yeah, if she still had them in WCA, then Heroes Reborn does seem like the trigger for that change.

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Tales to Astonish #47 Sep 1963
"Music to Scream By"
After preventing international criminal Ramond Theis from stealing the diamond known as "The Star of Ghana",
the grateful owner tells Ant-Man and Wasp a tale from his native India about a man named Ghazandi whose music
could hypnotize people and that his only weakness is playing the wrong note and be subject to hypnosis himself.

On their way back home, Ant-Man and Wasp fly past a club where musician Trago is featured playing Jazz.
The Wasp convinces Ant-Man to go back there with her in their civilian guises of Henry Pym and Janet van Dyne.
After the show they happen to witness Trago robbing the club owner's cash box.
Donning their identities of Ant-Man and the Wasp, the two heroes easily stop Trago and return the money.

The club owner decides not to call the police if Trago promises to return to his native India. Trago complies.

Two months later, in India, Trago manages to find the home of Ghazandi. Recalling the stories of
Ghazandi's musical powers he manages to convince the aged wise man to teach him how to play hypnotic music.
Many months later Trago returns to the United States and begins performing in clubs again.

Successfully using his hypnotic music to enthrall people, Trago manages to get himself into a radio station where he broadcasts his hypnotic music all over the city.
There he calls on the people to try and find Ant-Man and Wasp,

who are also affected and stunned by the music.
Ant-Man's ants carry the two heroes deep into an ant-hill in an attempt to shield them from the music.
Realizing his current plan isn't working, Trago commands local snakes to start searching for Ant-Man and Wasp.

In the ant-hill, the duo are attacked by a snake and use their shrinking gas on it, but not before Ant-Man's faithful ant Korr sacrifices its life to save him.

Traveling to the radio station, Ant-Man gets inside Trago's trumpet, and while his ants distract Trago he bends part of the instrument out of shape.
This causes the next note to effect Trago instead of his audience, causing him to forget his criminal intentions and become a legitimate musician.
Ant-Man and Wasp decide to let Trago go because he had not committed any real crime.

We end with Hank and Janet both listening to Trago, as he now has no memory of the incidents.
Hank is still saddened by the loss of his ant, Korr, so Jan and he both walk home together.

Script by Stan Lee and Ernie Hart [as H. E. Huntley], art by Don Heck

[Digifiend]

https://www.cbr.com/preview-tony-stark-iron-man-4/

[AndersonHoran]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ry/1450356002/

[Frontier]

https://www.cbr.com/preview-tony-stark-iron-man-4/

As stunning as always...

[Johnrevenge]

As stunning as always...

Of course, she is Janet
Preview looks really nice and I like that small nod to the issue of the Avengers when Janet and Tony had their romance.

[Captain M]

That looks amazing, Jan finally out of limbo, I'm gonna cry

[Captain M]

tonyjan tomorrow, get hyped.

[Johnrevenge]

It's been a great issue. I loved how Slott handled Janet here and the one page of spoilers:

Janet riding the vespa and Tony's face while sitting behind her was priceless xdd

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[Digifiend]

^spoilers:

Of course, Tony's bike is called a wasp... so naturally it's Janet's new favourite Iron Man armor!

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[AndersonHoran]

https://www.cbr.com/ant-man-wasp-pey...et-mcu-future/