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Published: 2023-03-15 21:12:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 8673; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 0
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Because no one asked for it: get ready for some Hank Pym Appreciation this week (but not a whole week, because if anyone can appreciate keeping things on the small side, it's Doctor Pym).
Kicking things off is....well, a guy in a lab coat and khakis. Exciting!
Hank Pym actually appeared BEFORE his debut as a costumed superhero. Before the spandex-clad do-gooders became popular again in the early 1960s, Marvel had switched over to publishing the adventures of all sorts of other genre types. Romance comics, Westerns, etc...but their most bombastic books were filled with weird, giant monsters and freaky aliens.
Back in this era, many stories featured forgettable, square-jawed heroes, often scientists, facing off with invading extraterrestrial tyrants or subterranean villains wrapped in goofy, high-concept, um....concepts. Or they often ran afoul of their own scientific genius. Hank Pym fell into that last category.
Having created his "shrinking serum" (later referred to as "Pym Particles," because Hank knows how to brand things), Dr. Pym, bio-chemist, was laughed at by others in the science community. Which is insane because he could shrink matter. Befote their eyes. That's amazing! Stupid, stupid science jerks.
Well, it was amazing until he accidentally shrank himself and ended up outside where he almost got eaten by ants in his yard. Oops. bad sciencing there, bud.
After narrowly escaping and returning to full size, Hank disposed of his invention, never to use it again. The end.
Except, no....he didn't do that, did he?
