Comic Title: Essential Ant-Man Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: Marvel
Cover Date: 2002
On Sale Date: February 27, 2002 Direct Market Date February 27, 2002
Source: Previews, Vol. 11 #11 (#155), Vol. 11 #12 (#156)

Direct Market Date February 27, 2002
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Direct Market Date February 27, 2002
Source: Comic Shop News, #763

Cover Price: $14.95
Page Count: 576
Editor: Matthew Ryan

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Prisoner of the Slave World"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Ant Man/Giant Man

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

Reprinted From:
Tales to Astonish #41 (1963)

Feature Character(s)

• Ant-Man (last appearance in Tales to Astonish #40; next appearance in Tales to Astonish #42)

Villain(s)

• Kulla (an alien warlord; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A window washer (no further appearances)
• Kulla's followers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Several kidnapped scientists (Paul, Ben, and Carter named; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A window washer paralyzes Henry Pym with an alien liquid, then absconds with him to another dimension. Pym is one of several captured scientists forced to build a death ray by Kulla, an alien warlord. Pym isolates himself from the others, then becomes Ant-Man. Using his cybernetic helmet, Ant-Man and the insects of the alien dimension defeat Kulla and rescue the scientists.