Comic Title: Tales to Astonish #27
Publisher: Marvel (Vista Publications Inc.)
Address: 655 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1962
On Sale Date: September 28, 1961 Copyright Date September 28, 1961
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1961

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Stan Lee

Title: "The Man in the Ant Hill"
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Ant Man/Giant Man

Writer: Larry D. Lieber
Penciller: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers

Reprinted In:
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Hulk Comic #1 (1979)
Essential Ant-Man Vol. 1 TPB (2002)
Marvel Milestones:Iron Man, Ant-Man & Captain America (#1) (2005)
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 Vol. 135:Atlas Era Tales to Astonish Vol. 3 HC (2010)
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 135:Atlas Era Tales to Astonish Vol. 3 HC [Variant] (2010)
Avengers:The Many Faces of Henry Pym TPB (2012)
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)
Ant-Man:Larger Than Life #1 (2015)
Ant-Man:Larger Than Life #1 [Comic Con Box Exclusive] (2015)
Ant-Man:Larger Than Life #1 [Comic Con Box Exclusive] (2015)
Ant-Man:Larger Than Life #1 [Four Color Grails Exclusive] (2015)
Ant-Man and the Wasp Adventures TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Henry Pym (first appearance; next appearance in Tales to Astonish #35)

Villain(s)

• An ant colony (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A group of scientists (no further appearances)
• A benevolent ant (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Scientist Henry Pym invents a formula which allows him to shrink objects to a fraction of their normal size. Another formula allows him to restore the objects to normal. Pym decides to test the formula on a living being, so he uses the shrinking formula on himself.

Pym is reduced to the size of an ant. So startled by the reaction, Pym stumbles outside where he is threatened by a group of real ants. Henry is chased through an ant hill and aided by one lone ant who is friendly. Eventually, the benevolent ant brings Henry back inside his lab where he can use the growth formula to restore his size. Pym then destroys the formulas which he believes present too great a danger to be used again.