Originally Posted by
Oberon
Well as R. Jack says, Antman was never a major character, however
he held a series, Tales to Astonish, before the Avengers/close and in context of the very early days of Marvel, was an important character.
He was overshadowed by nearly everything afterwards; hence the changing of identities and such.
By the time of the late '70s or so when this wife beating took place, was around the time of David's treatment of Iron Man as recovering alcoholic.
I read them back then; young adult, but now I wonder if David would have tried to do a similar thing and redeem Hank, but Shooter or other editorial stopped it.