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Hank Pym
Secret Invasion: Requiem #1
(February 2009)
As Ultron:
Avengers: Rage of Ultron #1
(April 2015)
Created byStan Lee (co-writer/editor)
Larry Lieber (co-writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
In-story information
Full nameDr. Henry Jonathan "Hank" Pym
SpeciesHuman mutate
Place of originNebraska
Team affiliations
PartnershipsWasp
Notable aliasesAnt-Man
Giant-Man
Goliath
Yellowjacket
Wasp
Scientist Supreme
Ultron
Abilities
  • Genius-level intellect
  • Expert biochemist and myrmecologist
  • Superhuman strength, stamina, durability and mass in giant form (as Giant-Man, Goliath and Yellowjacket)
  • Bio-Energy Projection, also known as a Bio-Sting (particularly during his periods as Ant-Man and Yellowjacket)
  • Telepathic communication with ants via cybernetic helmet (as Ant-Man)
  • Size-shifting from nearly microscopic to ~100 feet gigantic (both at extremes)
  • Flight using grafted wings (as Yellowjacket)
  • Ability to transfer his size-shifting ability to other beings and objects
  • Maintains strength of normal size in shrunken state

Dr. Henry Jonathan "Hank" Pym (

Janet van Dyne and the father of Nadia van Dyne, his daughter by his first wife, Maria Pym
.

Since his beginnings in the

television series, and feature films. Michael Douglas plays Pym in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). Douglas also voiced alternate-timeline versions of Pym in the Disney+ animated series What If...?
(2021-2023).

Publication history

Hank Pym debuted in a seven-page solo cover story, "The Man in the Ant Hill", about a character who tests shrinking technology on himself, in the science fiction/fantasy anthology Tales to Astonish #27 (cover date January 1962). The story was created by editor-plotter Stan Lee, writer Larry Lieber, penciller Jack Kirby, and inker Dick Ayers. In a 2008 interview, Lee said: "I did one comic book called 'The Man in the Ant Hill' about a guy who shrunk down and there were ants or bees chasing him. That sold so well that I thought making him into a superhero might be fun."[1]

As a result, Pym was revived eight issues later as the costumed

Janet van Dyne, who adopted the costumed identity of the Wasp. She co-starred in Pym's subsequent appearances, and was a framing-sequence host for backup stories in the series. In September 1963, Lee and Kirby created the superhero title The Avengers
, and Ant-Man and Wasp were established in issue #1 as founding members of the eponymous team.

Decades later, Lee theorized as to why "Ant-Man never became one of our top sellers or had his own book":

I loved Ant-Man, but the stories were never really successful. In order for Ant-Man to be successful, he had to be drawn this small next to big things and you would be getting pictures that were visually interesting. The artists who drew him, no matter how much I kept reminding them, they kept forgetting that fact. They would draw him standing on a tabletop and they would draw a heroic-looking guy. I would say, 'Draw a matchbook cover next to him, so we see the difference in size.' But they kept forgetting. So when you would look at the panels, you thought you were looking at a normal guy wearing an underwear costume like all of them. It didn't have the interest.[2]

Pym began a continuous shift of superhero identities in Tales to Astonish, first becoming the 12 ft-tall (3.7 m) Giant-Man in issue #49 (November 1963). Pym and van Dyne continued to costar in the title until issue #69 (July 1965), while simultaneously appearing in The Avengers until issue #15 (April 1965), after which they temporarily left the team.

Next Pym rejoined the Avengers and adopted the new identity Goliath in Avengers #28 (May 1966). Gradually falling to mental strain, he adopted the fourth superhero identity Yellowjacket in issue #59 (December 1968).[3] He reappeared as Ant-Man in Avengers #93 (November 1971); and for issues #4–10 starred in the lead story of the first volume of Marvel Feature (July 1972 – July 1973). During this run, he appeared in a redesigned costume with a nail as a weapon.[4] After appearing occasionally as Yellowjacket in the 1980s and battling mental and emotional issues, he temporarily abandoned his costumed persona, joining the West Coast Avengers as a scientist and inventor in West Coast Avengers vol. 2, #21 (June 1987). Pym returned to the Avengers as Giant-Man in The Avengers vol. 3, #1 (February 1998). When the team disbanded after a series of tragedies, Pym, as Yellowjacket, took a leave of absence beginning with vol. 3, #85 (September 2004).[5]

Following van Dyne's death, a grieving Pym took on yet another identity as a new iteration of Wasp, in tribute to the woman he had married and divorced, in the one-shot publication Secret Invasion: Requiem (January 2009). Giant-Man appeared as a supporting character in Avengers Academy from issue #1 (August 2010) through its final issue #39 (January 2013). Pym returned as the Wasp in the mini-series Ant-Man & The Wasp (January 2011) and as a regular character in the 2010-2013 Secret Avengers series from issue #22 (April 2012) through its final issue #37 (March 2013).

After Secret Avengers, Pym joined the Avengers A.I. after beating his creation Ultron. He then appeared in many comics including Daredevil (Vol. 3 and 4) and the graphic novel Rage of Ultron.

Fictional character biography

1960s

unstable molecules to prevent bites or scratches from the ants and reinvents himself as the superhero Ant-Man.[7]

After several adventures, Pym is contacted by Dr. Vernon van Dyne, who asks for his help contacting

Wasp, and together they find and defeat Vernon's killer.[8] They become founding members of the superhero team the Avengers.[9]

Pym eventually adopts his first alternate identity as the 12-foot-tall Giant-Man.[10] (Three decades later, a flashback shows him adopting the identity out of feelings of inadequacy when compared to powerful teammates Iron Man and Thor.[11]) Pym and the Wasp begin a romantic relationship,[12] and soon take a leave of absence from the Avengers.[13]

Returning to the Avengers, Pym adopts a new superhero identity,

Circus of Crime erupts; in the ensuing conflict, the chemicals lose their effect on him and his identity is restored.[17]

1970s

After several adventures with the Avengers, including another encounter with Ultron,

Kree-Skrull War,[20] and once again as the Ant-Man persona and has a series of solo adventures.[21]

After aiding fellow superhero team known as the Defenders[22][23] as Yellowjacket, Pym returns to the Avengers.[24] He is eventually captured by an upgraded Ultron that brainwashes his creator, causing the character to regress to his original Ant-Man costume and personality — arriving at Avengers Mansion, thinking it to be the very first meeting of the team. Seeing several unfamiliar members, Pym attacks the team until stopped by the Wasp.[25] After Ultron's brainwashing is reversed, Pym rejoins the Avengers as Yellowjacket.[26] Pym is forced to briefly leave the team when the roster is restructured by government liaison Henry Peter Gyrich.[27]

Also at this time, he noticed

Scott Lang's theft of the Ant-Man suit. After Darren Cross's defeat and aware of Lang's use of the stolen goods, Pym let Lang keep the equipment, albeit only to uphold the law.[28]

1980s

Hank Pym strikes his wife Janet van Dyne in Avengers #213 (November 1981). Art by Bob Hall.

Returning 14 issues later,[29] Hank Pym participates in several missions until, after demonstrating hostile behavior toward Janet van Dyne, he attacks a foe from behind once the opponent had ceased fighting. Captain America suspends Yellowjacket from Avengers duty pending the verdict of a court-martial.

Pym suffers a

mental breakdown and concocts a plan to salvage his credibility. He plans to build a robot and program it to launch an attack on the Avengers; Pym will then counter the false flag attack at a critical moment using his knowledge of the robot's weaknesses, thereby presenting himself as the other Avengers' savior. The Wasp discovers the plan and begs Pym to stop, whereupon he strikes her.[30][note 1]

Pym is subsequently expelled from the Avengers,[30] and Janet divorces him.[32]

Left penniless, Pym is manipulated by an old foe, the presumed-dead Egghead, who tricks Pym into stealing the national reserve of the metal adamantium. Pym is confronted by the Avengers and blamed for the theft, as Egghead erases all evidence of his own involvement. Pym, in turn, blames Egghead, a criminal still believed dead by the other Avengers. This is taken by Pym's former teammates as further proof of his madness, and he is incarcerated.[33] During Pym's imprisonment, Janet has a brief relationship with Tony Stark.[34] Egghead later attempts to kill Pym but is himself accidentally killed by Hawkeye. With the perpetrator of the original theft now exposed, Pym is cleared of all charges. After bidding farewell to Janet and his teammates, Pym leaves to devote himself full-time to research.[35]

Pym reappears as a member of the West Coast Avengers, first in an advisory role,[36] then as a full member. He answers to "Doctor Pym" in the field, using none of the names or costumes associated with his previous superhero identities.[37] He begins a short relationship with teammate Tigra.[38] After being taunted by old foe Whirlwind, Pym contemplates suicide, but is stopped by Firebird.[39] Pym and Janet eventually resume a romantic relationship.[40]

1990s

The character returns to the Avengers, joining the East Coast team as Giant-Man.[41] The pair, together with many of the other Avengers, apparently sacrifice themselves to stop the villain Onslaught, but actually exist in a pocket universe for a year before returning to the mainstream Marvel Universe.[42]

Hank Pym returns and aids the team as Giant-Man,[43] and makes a significant contribution by defeating criminal mastermind Imus Champion[44] and his flawed creation Ultron, simultaneously overcoming his old issues of guilt over Ultron's crimes.[45]

2000s

During the Destiny War between Kang the Conqueror and Immortus, two versions of Hank Pym are drawn in: Giant-Man of the present and Yellowjacket immediately prior to his marriage to Janet van Dyne.[46] Yellowjacket briefly betrays the team to Immortus and the powerful Time-Keepers try to create a timeline where he will not turn back into Pym,[47] but he rejects this decision in time to help his allies.[48] Observing the final battle, Libra—who brought the team together by using the Destiny Force to tap into his subconscious awareness of the cosmic balance—reflects that both Pyms were necessary so that Yellowjacket's betrayal could bring the team into the right position to attack the Time-Keepers, while Pym's presence as Giant-Man both provided a stable support and irritated Yellowjacket to provoke his own actions.[49]

Back in the present, an encounter with Kulan Gath results in Pym being split into his two personas of Pym and Yellowjacket, after a spell cast by Gath temporarily transforms Pym into a swashbuckler-style Yellowjacket, followed by the Yellowjacket persona manifesting a physical presence from the extradimensional bio-mass Pym uses to grow. Yellowjacket's stability deteriorates in a confrontation with Diablo. The two personalities are restored when the Wasp helps the two halves realize they need each other.[50] Pym is eventually able to resolve his problems and adopts his Yellowjacket persona again.[51]

After the events of the "Avengers Disassembled" storyline, Pym takes a leave of absence,[52] and in the one-shot Avengers: Finale, he and Janet leave for England to rekindle their relationship.[53]

As Yellowjacket, Pym is a central character in the

Camp Hammond, a U.S. military base in Stamford, Connecticut, for the training of registered superheroes in the government program The Initiative.[55] Pym and Janet's relationship fails, and Pym again begins a romantic relationship with teammate Tigra
.

Following the publication of Civil War, Marvel's

Crusader.[57] After the final battle between Earth's heroes and the Skrulls, Pym is found with other "replaced" heroes in a Skrull vessel. When Janet is seemingly killed in battle,[58] Pym takes on a new superhero persona, the Wasp, in tribute to her.[59] He rejoins the Avengers[60] and eventually leads the team.[61]

The cosmic entity Eternity reveals to Pym that he is Earth's "Scientist Supreme", the scientific counterpart to Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.[62] The Norse trickster-god Loki later claims to have been posing as Eternity to manipulate Pym.[63]

2010s

Hank Pym creates Avengers Academy, a program to help train young people with newly acquired superpowers.[64] He returns to his Giant-Man identity,[65][66] and later joins the superhero team: Secret Avengers.[67] In the "Age of Ultron" storyline, Pym travels through time to destroy his robot, Ultron, who had managed to conquer the world.[68]

In another adventure, Pym and Monica Chang, A.I. Division Chief of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., assemble a new team called the Avengers A.I.[69] A few months later, Pym, using his Yellowjacket identity, is shown as a member of the Illuminati.[70] At one point, Pym is presumed dead and a funeral service is held in his honor.[71] Scott Lang receives one of Pym's labs according to the will.[72]

Pym resurfaces in a space adventure before rejoining the Avengers on Earth, though it becomes clear that Ultron is actually controlling Hank's body.

Nadia, from his ex-wife Maria Trovaya.[75] Through Nadia, we discover that Hank has bipolar disorder,[76] which he has been monitoring on his own to predict when and how often his mood swings may occur.[77]

During the "Secret Empire" storyline, Pym sets up a base in Alaska and is forced to work through some family issues and relationship strife within the Avengers team.[78] Pym later goes on a journey to collect all the Infinity Stones.[79] During this storyline, a piece of Hank's soul gets stuck in an alternate realm and eventually devoured.[80] In another storyline, Hank is portrayed as a villain in a battle against the Silver Surfer.[81]

In "The Ultron Agenda" storyline, Hank attempts to merge all robots with humans. Iron Man and Machine Man interfere with his plans[82] and Pym attempts to take revenge.[83] At the end of this storyline, we discover that Hank's human side has been dead since he first merged with Ultron.[84]

2020s

The Ant-Man miniseries released in 2022 depicts an early Hank Pym being pulled into the future, along with Eric O'Grady and Scott Lang, in an attempt to assist the Ant-Man of the 25th century, Dr. Zayn Asghar. Ultron is ultimately defeated and the other Ant-Men are returned to the past.[85]

Sometime later, an old man claiming to be Hank Pym places an artificial personality in Whirlwind's corpse called "Victor Shade".

Sub-Atomica to regroup and prepare for Ultron's return as part of Protocol S.[87]

Powers and abilities

Hank Pym is a scientific

Dragon Man, showing his knack for AI and cybernetics.[16]

After constant experimentation with size-changing via ingested capsules and particle-filled gas, Pym is eventually able to change size at will,[

unstable molecules
and automatically adapts to his shifting sizes.

Pym also uses a cybernetic helmet he created for achieving rudimentary communication with ants and other higher order insects. As Yellowjacket, then later as Wasp, Pym wears artificial wings and has bio-blasters called "stingers" built into his gloves. He took up the Wasp mantle in memory of Janet, who was believed to be dead at the time.[60]

Pym also carries a variety of weaponry, provisions, and scientific instruments, which are shrunken to the size of microchips and stored in the pockets of his uniform.[88] An experienced superhero, Pym is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter. In his first appearance, he claimed to be a master of judo,[6] is skilled in wrestling[89] and karate[90] and has since been seen in combat with opponents of both his own size and radically larger than himself (as a result of his size-changing abilities).

During his stay with the West Coast Avengers, Pym constructed a one-man vehicle with artificial intelligence named Rover.[37] Rover is able to communicate with Pym and is capable of flight and discharging energy and acid.

Back with the

Avengers Quinjet.[volume & issue needed
]

After fusing with Ultron, he now contains all of his creation's abilities when he is in control.[71]

Successors

There are a number of characters in the Marvel universe that have also used the "Pym particles" to effect size changing. These include

Nadia Pym.[volume & issue needed] Although they do not use their powers for altering their size, both Wonder Man and Vision derive their powers from Pym particles.[102]

Enemies

The following are the known enemies of Hank Pym in any of his aliases:

  • Absorbing Man - A powerful enemy that can absorb the properties of everything he touches.[103]
  • A.I.M. - A scientific community that tried to recruit and kill Hank Pym in different occasions.[104]
  • Alkhema - an artificial intelligence born to be the second wife of Ultron. She has the brain patterns of the Avenger Mockingbird.[105]
  • Atlas - Erik Josten is a supervillain that can shrink or grow his own size. He also used the Goliath persona during his permanence in the Masters of Evil.[106]
  • Black Knight - A scientist who made knight-based technology after being denied the Ebony Blade.[107]
  • Dimitrios - A supervillain artificial intelligence created by Pym himself to destroy Ultron only to take a life of its own afterwards.[108]
  • Doctor Nemesis - A supervillain with the ability to shrink and grow in size just like Ant-Man.[109]
  • Egghead - A mad scientist with an egg-shaped head.[110]
  • Hijacker - An armored car company owner who became a car thief.[111]
  • Cyclops robot to capture some human specimens.[112]
  • Kulla - The dictator of the dimension of Dehnock.[113]
  • Liso Trago - A jazz musician from India who uses a special trumpet to control people. Ant-Man and Wasp turned his music against him causing Trago to forget his criminal intention and resume his career as a jazz musician.[114]
  • Living Eraser - An alien from Dimension Z whose Dimensionizer can transport anything to Dimension Z.[10]
  • Magician - A stage magician who used his stage acts in his crimes.[115]
  • MODAM - An alternate female version of MODOK who was originally supposed to be a revived Maria Trovaya.[116] She is later revealed to be the mother of Hank's daughter Nadia prior to becoming MODAM.
  • People's Defense Force - A team of Eastern European super-powered beings who had fought Hank Pym individually before coming together.[117]
    • Beasts of Berlin - A group of western lowland gorillas mutated to human intelligence by Communist scientists and speech. They operate as a team.[118]
    • El Toro - El Toro is Cuba's first super agent and an early opponent of Henry Pym.[119]
    • Madame X - Madame X is a patriot and spy for the communist Hungarian government.[120]
    • Scarlet Beetles - The Scarlet Beetles are normal beetles that have been mutated to a size of 10-feet and given human intelligence and speech.[121]
    • Voice - A supervillain whose voice enables him to control anyone.[122]
  • Pilai - A Kosmonian criminal that was accidentally brought to Earth by Vernon van Dyne.[8]
  • Porcupine - A porcupine-themed villain.[123]
  • Protector - A jewelry store owner who adopted the Protector alias to extort his rivals.[124]
  • Time Master - Elias Weems is an elderly scientist who made an aging ray after having been fired from the Modern Scientific Research Company. After being defeated by Ant-Man when he realized that his visiting grandson Tommy was in the crowd that he aged, Weems was exonerated after Ant-Man and the Modern Scientific Research Company's owner persuaded the judge to waive the charges. Afterwards, Weems got his job back and showed Tommy around his place of work.[125]
  • Ultron - A robot created by Hank Pym that obtained sentience.[16]
  • Whirlwind - A mutant that can spin at supersonic speeds.[126]

Reception

Accolades

  • In 2011, IGN ranked Hank Pym 67th in their "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes" list.[127]
  • In 2011, Wizard Magazine ranked Hank Pym 93rd in their "Top 200 Comic book Characters" list.[128]
  • In 2015, IGN ranked Hank Pym 16th in their "Top 50 Avengers" list.[129]
  • In 2020,
    CBR.com ranked Hank Pym 4th in their "10 Most Powerful Members Of The Pym Family" list[130] and 6th in their "10 Best Superhero Doctors In Marvel & DC" list.[131]
  • In 2022, Newsarama ranked Hank Pym 11th in their "Best Avengers members of all time" list.[132]
  • In 2022, Screen Rant included Hank Pym in their "9 Strongest West Coast Avengers" list.[133]
  • In 2022,
    CBR.com ranked Hank Pym 5th in their "10 Smartest Marvel Scientists" list[134] and 8th in their "10 Smartest Tech-Powered Heroes" list.[135]

Other versions

Marvel 1602

In the world of Marvel 1602, natural philosopher Henri le Pym is forced by Baron von Octavius to devise a serum that would cure him of a fatal disease. Pym is married to Janette.[136]

The Last Avengers Story

In an alternate future in the miniseries The Last Avengers Story #1-2 (November 1995), Ultron wishes for a decisive victory over the Avengers. After eliminating the team, he has Hank Pym gather a new group. After recruiting other heroes and mercenaries, Pym leads them to victory though fatalities are heavy on both sides.[volume & issue needed]

Marvel Zombies

Hank Pym is featured in several of the Marvel Zombies miniseries, appearing as one of the cannibalistic zombies in Marvel Zombies #1-5 (February–June 2006), Marvel Zombies 2 #1-5 (December 2007 – April 2008) and Marvel Zombies Return #4 (October 2009). Although he experiences a brief return to morality in Marvel Zombies 2, throughout most of the series he is presented as being comfortable with his transformation, noting to a captured Black Panther that he thinks he might still eat people even if he was cured of the infection,[137] and setting out to consume a new universe even after learning that the hunger can be beaten.[138] He is opposed in his expansion efforts by the zombie Spider-Man,[139] who finally manages to defeat his own forces with nanites configured to 'eat' zombie flesh.[140]

MC2

The

Big Man respectively.[141]

Earth-5012

In this reality, Hank Pym is an intelligent, Hulk-like brute.[142][143]

Old Man Logan

In the post-apocalyptic Old Man Logan storyline that takes place on Earth-807128, Hank Pym (as Giant-Man) is one of the numerous superheroes killed by the Red Skull's army of villains. Decades after his demise, a Connecticut settlement called "Pym Falls" is built around his massive skeleton.[144] In addition, his Ant-Man helmet is shown in the possession of a young boy named Dwight, who uses it to command an army of ants to enforce the payment of tolls across a bridge.[145]

In the pages of "Old Man Logan" that takes place on Earth-21923, it was shown that during the fight in Connecticut that Giant-Man had become enraged when the Wasp was killed by

Moloids emerged and attack Giant-Man, causing him to fall to the ground.[146]

Ultimate Marvel

The

Ultimatum" storyline, he sacrifices himself against the Multiple Man's suicide bomber duplicates to save the remaining Ultimates' lives.[147]

After his death, the character's various formulas/devices are still in usage: the Giant-Man formula further replicated by S.H.I.E.L.D. to have multiple Giant-Women agents while his technology is eventually acquired by HYDRA.[148]

Giant-Man was later revived alongside his fellow Ultimates when the Superflow that separated the different universes was destroyed by the Maker and the High Evolutionary.[149]

After Earth-1610 was restored, Giant-Man was seen with the Ultimates when they help Spider-Man fight the Green Goblin.[150]

Marvel Adventures

Henry Pym appears in issue 13 of Marvel Adventures: The Avengers as a scientist working for Janet's father with no superhero identity, and was the one who gave his wife superpowers. He is visited by Spider-Man and Storm when Janet van Dyne (Giant-Girl in this continuity) falls under insect mind-control. He tells them how to free her (severing the antennae on her mask), gives her a new costume, and uses an insect telepathy helmet (identical to his Earth-616 Ant-Man helmet) to create an illusion of several giant-sized people, scaring the insects away.[volume & issue needed] He returns in issue 20, becoming Ant-Man. He not only joins the team but begins a relationship with Janet.

Marvel Apes

In the Marvel Apes universe, Henry Pym is a gorilla named Gro-Rilla, a member of the Ape-Vengers.[volume & issue needed]

Heroes Reborn (2021)

In the 2021

Christian who is a former friend and sidekick of Hyperion. When he got consumed by his cybernetic experiments, Hank figuratively and literally was transformed into Ultron which forced Hyperion to banish him to the Negative Zone. Ultron was among the inmates who escaped from the Negative Zone. Hyperion defeated Ultron by dismantling him.[151]

In other media

Television

Film

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Hank Pym appears in media set in the

Quantum Realm, and becomes a victim of the Blip. Pym is introduced in the live-action film Ant-Man (2015),[159][160] and makes subsequent appearances in the live-action films Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018),[161][162] Avengers: Endgame (2019),[163][164] and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023).[165] Additionally, Douglas voices alternate timeline variants of Pym in the Disney+ animated series, What If...?,[166]
with one appearing as Yellowjacket and another as Ant-Man.

Video games

Miscellaneous

Collected editions

Title Material collected Published date ISBN
Essential Astonishing Ant-Man, Vol. 1 Tales to Astonish #27, 35-69 March 2002 978-0785108221
Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man Vol. 1 Tales to Astonish #27; 35-52 August 2009 978-0785120490
Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man Vol. 2 Tales to Astonish #53-69 August 2009 978-0785129110
Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man Vol. 3 Marvel Feature #4-10, Power Man #24-25, Black Goliath #1-5, Champions #11-13, Marvel Premiere #47-48 and material from Iron Man (1968) #44 June 2018 978-1302910792
Ant-Man/Giant-Man Epic Collection: The Man in the Ant Hill Tales to Astonish #27, 35-59 July 2015 978-0785198505
Avengers: The Many Faces of Henry Pym Tales to Astonish #27, 35, 49, Avengers (vol. 1) #28, 59-60, West Coast Avengers #21, Avengers Annual 2001, Secret Invasion: Requiem June 2012 978-0785162063
Ant-Man/Giant-Man: Growing Pains Avengers (vol. 1) #28, 139, Avengers Academy #7, material from Tales to Astonish #49, Marvel Double Feature: Avengers/Giant-Man #379-382 July 2018 978-1302913816
Avengers: The Trial of Yellowjacket The Avengers #212-230 August 2012 978-0785162070
Ant-Man: Astonishing Origins Ant-Man: Season One, Ant-Man (vol. 1) #1 June 2018 978-0785163909
Avengers Origins Avengers Origins: Ant-Man & Wasp and Avengers Origins: Luke Cage, Avengers Origins: Quicksilver & The Scarlet Witch, Avengers Origins: Thor, Avengers Origins: Vision April 2012 978-1846535086
Ant-Man & Wasp: Small World Ant-Man & Wasp #1-3 June 2011 978-0785155676
Ant-Man: Ant-Niversary Ant-Man (vol. 3) #1-4 and material from Tales To Astonish #37, 43 January 2023 978-1302945428

Notes

  1. ^ Jim Shooter, the writer of this story, stated in 2011 on his personal web site that he intended only that Pym accidentally strike his wife while gesturing at her dismissively, and that artist Bob Hall misinterpreted the instruction.[31]

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