Appearing in "Prelude to Disaster!"
Featured Characters:
- Ant-Man (Hank Pym) (Main story and flashback) (Giant-Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket in flashback)
- Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) (Main story and flashback) (Wasp-Human hybrid in present)
Supporting Characters:
- Ant-Man's Ants (Only in recap)
- Dr. Vernon van Dyne (Only in recap) (Death)
Antagonists:
- Kosmosians (Only in recap)
- Pilai (Only in recap)
Other Characters:
- Maria Pym (Only in recap)
- Maria's Father (Mentioned) (Death) (Only in recap)
- Soviet Agents (Only in recap) (Unnamed)
- Police (Mentioned) (Only in recap)
- Joe (Dock Worker) (Only in recap)
- United States Army (Only in recap)
- F.B.I. (Only in recap)
- Lee Kearns (Only in recap) (Voice only)
- Para-Man (Only in recap)
- Egg-Head (Only in recap)
- Whirlwind (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Dogs (Mentioned) (Only in recap)
- Ants (Only in recap)
- Kosmosians (Only in recap)
- Wolves (Mentioned) (Only in recap)
- Robots (Only in recap)
Locations:
- Earthspace (Main story and recap)
- Milky Way (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New Jersey (Main story and recap)
- Pym's Laboratory (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- George Washington Bridge (Only in recap)
- Financial District (Only in recap)
- Wall Street (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- New Jersey (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Europe (Only in recap)
- Hungary (Only in recap)
- American Embassy (Only in recap)
- Hungary (Only in recap)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Milky Way (Main story and recap)
- Kosmos (Mentioned) (Only in recap)
Items:
- Wasp's Suit and Bio-Synthetic Wings (Main story and recap)
- Ant-Man's Suit and Helmet (Only in recap)
- Reducing Gas/Growth Gas (Only in recap)
- Ant-Man's Catapult (Only in recap)
Synopsis for "Prelude to Disaster!"
As a maddened, mutated Jan tries to kill her husband, Hank Pym recalls their first meeting long ago...
Solicit Synopsis
The agonizin' Ant-Man fights on!
Notes
- Sequence 1 Prelude to Disaster!
- This is primarily a flashback consisting of a reprint (pages 3-19) of the Ant-Man story in Tales to Astonish #44.
- pencils (story pages): Russell pages 1 & 2, Starlin first half of page 3 & 20, Kirby second half of page 3-19.
- inks (story pages): Janes pages 1-first half of page 3 & 20, Heck second half of page 3-19.
- Janes is credited as Jimmy Janes.
- This issue features a letters page, Astonishing Ant-Mail. Letters are published from Shirley A. Gorman, Mike Francis, and Cathy Czene.