Comic Title: Tales to Astonish #42
Publisher: Marvel (Vista Publications Inc.)
Address: 655 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1963
On Sale Date: January 3, 1963 Copyright Date January 3, 1963
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1963

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Contains: Ownership Statement
Circulation: 139167
Editor: Stan Lee

Title: "The Voice of Doom"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Ant Man/Giant Man

Plotter: Stan Lee
Scripter: Larry D. Lieber
Artist: Don Heck
Letterer: Artie Simek

Reprinted In:
Essential Ant-Man Vol. 1 TPB (2002)
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 59:Ant-Man/Giant-Man Vol. 1 HC (2006)
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 59:Ant-Man/Giant-Man Vol. 1 HC [Variant] (2006)
Marvel Masterworks:Ant-Man/Giant-Man Vol. 1 TPB (2014)
Marvel Masterworks:Ant-Man/Giant-Man Vol. 1 TPB [Variant] (2014)
Ant-Man/Giant-Man Epic Collection:The Man in the Ant Hill TPB (2015)

Feature Character(s)

• Ant-Man (last appearance in Tales to Astonish #41; next appearance in Tales to Astonish #43)

Villain(s)

• Jason Cragg (no further appearances)
• A gang of unnamed thieves (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Two radio executives (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Radio announcer Jason Cragg is accidentally exposed to radiation which causes people to obey anything he says. Cragg travels to Center City where he watches Ant-Man take down a gang of criminals. Jealous of the public adoration that Ant-Man receives, Cragg uses his voice to during the police and public against Ant-Man.

The Ant-Man is forced to hide from people who have organized a hunt to find him. He is forced to remove his helmet when they use magnets to locate him. Without the helmet, Ant-Man is overcome by Cragg's voice and forced to walk off the edge of a pier. Ant-Man's ants save him.

Having made his escape, Ant-Man sets up a plan to stop Cragg. He uses a prop gun controlled by ants to bluff the crook into using his voice to exonerate Ant-Man. Then he uses microbes to induce laryngitis in Cragg. Even when he regains his voice, the crook has lost his hypnotic power, and the police run him out of town.