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  Henry Pym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After he undertook an exhaustive study of ants, he later constructed a "cyber-helmet" that would let him communicate with and control insects.
Erik Josten was originally known as the supervillain Power Man; after an encounter with Luke Cage, who was also calling himself Power Man at the time, he changed his codename to The Smuggler, and later to Goliath.
When she returned to the present, she was killed by Iron Man, who was being mind controlled by Immortus in the guise of Kang the Conqueror.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hank_Pym   (1588 words)

  
 The Astonishing Ant-Man!
Man's arrogance led him to often think that the world was created solely for his kind, but Scott knew differently.
Man was just one more lifeform on a planet teeming with them, each with their own quirks and wondrous nature.
The ant's antenna continued to twitch -- since there was little in the way of expression their features, Scott had learned to view their body stances as a means of reading their primitive emotions.
www.aric-dacia.com /fanfic/antman02.htm   (3941 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Ant Man
Later that year, the pair met Thor, Iron Man and The Hulk, and formed The Avengers.
In fact, Pym's entire career as Ant Man was brief (possibly because DC's Atom was already established as a super-small superhero when he came along).
In 1979, Scott Lang, an employee of Pym's, borrowed the Ant Man costume technology for a personal emergency, and used it to become the new Ant Man. Later, Pym gave it to him.
www.toonopedia.com /antman.htm   (430 words)

  
 The Astonishing Ant-Man!
Over a million ants could be found in just an acre of land -- and when they came together to destroy an enemy, they were formidable.
Somehow he knew that this was the man the murderer was speaking of.
All around his yard were mounds of ant hills -- the neighbors would be complaining soon, he knew -- but these insects had as much right to live as anyone else.
www.aric-dacia.com /fanfic/antman03.htm   (3078 words)

  
 Interview with a "Dracula Ant" Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A: Ants are like cars to me, a combination of beauty and form in their colors and style and in the shape of their head, thorax, abdomen and connecting segments.
The ants are agriculturists; they gather up leaf petals in their habitat, plus frass [feces] of caterpillars, and they use these materials as compost.
Ants are critically important ecologically, but their impact has been seriously underestimated.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2002/11/04/urbananimal.DTL   (1353 words)

  
 Ant Man II
Thus activated, the field produces an man's entire body at a uniform rate to the size he is determined which is usually an size, although he can adopt sizes between his normal and that of an aunt if he so desires Ant-Man's mass is not compressed into reduced stature.
Certainly there are visual indicators in his surrounding environment, but the process occurs so quickly that it would be remarkable to be able to see the scale indicators.
Touching the object or organism he wishes to shrink, he generates the "reducing field" and that usual manner, and then mentally extends the field to encompass his "baggage" or "passenger." How far he can extend this field is unknown.
comicscentral.tripod.com /marvelheroes/a/antman2.htm   (1369 words)

  
 RESEARCH IN REVIEW - Walters ant castles
Tschinkel's career in the science began in the early '60s, on the eve of the federal government's declaration of war on the not-so-humble fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (literally, "the unvanquished").
He's had nearly four decades since to ponder the consequences of that hopelessly lost cause, and to hone his respect and admiration for ants of all kind.
Ant biologist Walter Tschinkel gazes at a suspended cast he made of a nest of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomymex badius ("the bearder ant").
www.research.fsu.edu /researchr/2000/features/ants.html   (576 words)

  
 The Astonishing Ant-Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was filthy, his clothes matted to his skin and his face showing a two-day growth of stubble, but he kept working in the garden, slowly but steadily transforming the empty backyard of his new home into something presentable.
Ants were generally ignored by most of the human population, but they had a complex social organization -- and were capable of memorizing tasks and places.
It was a field that seemed to stretch beyond one ant, beyond the nest.
www.aric-dacia.com /fanfic/antman01.htm   (2615 words)

  
 Pitched battle of ant versus man
"We got great ants," said Fisher, who spent four days in Costa Rica trying to bag a colony of army ants to replace the 1.2 million Trinidadian ants that were decimated by a horde of uninvited hide beetles at the museum in August.
A crowd of school kids chanted "Release the ants!" Thursday morning as Fisher and aquatic biologist Jim Evans, who also made the trip, unsealed two giant plastic containers and spilled the ants onto the floor of their new home.
The beetles that ate the fierce Trinidadian ants out of house and home had slipped into the museum in a crate of live crickets being fed to the ants.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/197450_ants30.html   (457 words)

  
 Ants that spray formic acid - www.ezboard.com
what is the type of ant that sprays formicia acid aot of the abdomen.
Argentine ants-Linepithema humile, and fire ants-Solenopsis, ponerine ants-Ponera and relatives, army ants (doryloid tribes) and all others lack formic acid, but have a wide variety of other interesting (and often pain-inducing) chemicals in their venoms.
Ants of the Formicinae family use formic acid (e.g.
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 Welcome to UXN - For the Fans, By the Fans
Simultaneously at the United Nations, Iron Man gives a speech as Tony Stark to the delegates when he spontaneously becomes drunk and tries to murder the Latverian delegate.
Not listening, the shocked Wasp tells the man that there might be lethal radiation from the blast that they could be exposed to right now.
The other man is worried, as he has no training for robotic defense systems.
www.uncannyxmen.net /db/issues/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=2339   (3913 words)

  
 Ant Man.  A Hollywood Jesus visual cultural insight.
A man had been sitting on the trail after a hunt and noticed some ants trying to build a home.
He told them one day that he was not really an ant, but a Motilone, and that he had once tried to help them improve their home, but had scared them.
It took Olson a long time to discover why one man was screaming from the top of a tree while the other dug a hole screaming and weeping into the ground.
www.hollywoodjesus.com /ant_man.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Ant-Man II for Champions
He never seems to be able to have trouble getting a flying any anywhere he goes, although he can't use one in a vacuum or under water.
the armored Avenger known as Iron Man. When his daughter was diagnosed with a serious congenial heart condition, Lang sought the aid of surgeon Erica Sondhiem, only to learn she was being held prisoner at Cross Technological Enterprises.
Company President Darren Cross required her expertise to correct his own heart condition and was unwilling to wait in line for her unique services.
www.angelfire.com /scifi2/mathew/csantman2.html   (788 words)

  
 Hollywood North Report - Canada's Premier Film and TV News Source
The character, bio-scientist 'Dr. Henry Pym', debuted in Marvel Comics' "Tales To Astonish" #27 (1962), as “The Man in the Ant Hill”, who discovers a liquid that evaporates into a gas, reducing a man to the size of an insect.
His laboratory is soon taken over by enemy cold war agents, but donning a costume and 'cybernetic' helmet to communicate with worker ants, he organizes a nearby nest to attack the spies.
As he rides the ants like a wild west cowboy, Pym's cybernetic commands are obeyed by the insects and they jam up the intruders' guns, swarming in stinging masses.
www.hollywoodnorthreport.com /article.php?Article=789   (248 words)

  
 The Comics Rack-Unabashed Plug Dept. #8-Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ant-Man is propelled to wherever he has to go by a catapult where a group of his loyal ants form a landing cushion (nothing is ever said about what happens to the ants) and later travels by flying ant (maybe the ants complained about the cushion trick).
By issue 49, he has not only gained a regular sidekick/love interest in the person of the Wasp, he also decides that shrinking to ant size is a liability, so he becomes Giant-Man, the super-hero guise he keeps through the end of the series.
They are called together by a man named Bond, who happens to work for someone named M, to rescue a substance from a certain Oriental gentleman who has taken up residence in the Limehouse district of London.
thenostalgialeague.com /cr/plugs/cr_plugs8.html   (2577 words)

  
 Ant Man Afton Fawcett - Hurricane Valley Journal
Fawcett found that the type of ant that built the best tunnels was also the most common ant in southern Utah.
It was also the ant people hated the most and wanted to get rid of.
Ants from Hurricane were soon considered pets of people all across the United States.
www.hvjournal.com /articles.php?id=1245   (902 words)

  
 Scarlet Beetle (Ant-Man (Pym), West Coast Avengers, She-Hulk, Spider-Man foe)
It was determined that the insects of the world, since they had existed before the age of man, and were greater in number should take over the world.
It organized a small army of insects, which drew the attention of the original Ant-Man. Overpowering him with its vast army, the Scarlet Beetle stole his gas belt, grew to human size, removed his helmet, and trapped him in a pit.
However, Ant-Man was found and rescued by ants, re-shrunk the Scarlet Beetle, overpowered him, and then drained its radiation.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/scarbeet.htm   (1113 words)

  
 Specific Monster Data: Ant Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The joke lingers in your mind as you come face to face with the answer.
This mix between man and beast carrier with it the strengths of both creatures.
The intelligence of a human mixed with the agility and strength of an ant make this an especially dangerous foe.
www.sb-software.com /monster/mons2.html   (59 words)

  
 The Man In The Ant Hill
Pym later gave the Ant Man costume and equipment to Scott Lang in Marvel Premiere #’s 47 and 48.
Roderick Kane, a man from the year 5000 A.D., travelled through time to the year 1961, where he planned to use a shrinking formula to reduce the size of Earth’s population.
Mutant Lucius Farnsworth (see The Man In The Beehive) had the uncanny mental ability to shrink himself and others to the size of bees.
monsterblog.oneroom.org /meet_the_monsters/the_man_in_the_ant_hill.html   (1385 words)

  
 Marvel Directory
Since that time, Lang has dawned the Ant-Man costume for various occasions to assist Iron Man, the Avengers, or the law, although he still considers himself a part time costume crime fighter.
KNOWN SUPERHUMAN POWERS: Ant-Man possesses the power to reduce himself to size of an ant, approximately one half inch in height, by the means a rare group of subatomic particles called the Pym Particles after the man who discovered them, Henry Pym.
Thus activated, the field produces an man's entire body at a uniform rate to the size he is determined which is usually ant size, although he can adopt sizes between his normal and that of an ant if he so desires.
www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/a/antmanii.htm   (1598 words)

  
 Whoclix - Marvel Infinity Challenge A-E
When Blade's pregnant mother was bitten by the vampire Deacon Frost, her unborn child became the Daywalker: a half-human, half vampire with enhanced strength, sense and speed.
Frank Schlichting was a small-time hood who was outfitted by the Corporation and given work as a hit man. Constrictor's contracts have pitted him against Captain America, Iron Man and the Hulk.
Although Matt Murdock lost his sight saving a blind man from radioactive waste, he gained super-sensitive senses that allowed him to "see" by radar, hear heartbeats and feel the faintest touch.
members.aol.com /thefightingfury/whoclix/marvelae.htm   (1540 words)

  
 Marvel Directory
Inspired by his experience in the anthill, Pym undertook a study of ants, and theorized that ants communicate through psionic / electrical waves transmitted through their antennae.
He escaped to an anthill outside, put a large number of ants under his control through the helmet, and used them to attack, the agents and free his men, who then overpowered their assailants.
Known superhuman powers: As Ant-Man and Yellowjacket, Henry Pym possessed the power to reduce himself to the size of an ant, approximately one-half inch in height, by means of the subatomic particles known as the Pym Particles.
www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/g/goliath.htm   (3060 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Essential Ant Man TPB (Essential Ant-Man)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In one memorable issue, Giant- Man accidentally enlarged a spider and was blocked from reaching his helmet controls to restore it to its normal size.
Giant Man and the Wasp still appeared in the Avengers, but it was clear they had lost their opportunity to shine brightly in the Marvel firmament.
These adventures of Ant/Giant Man and the Wasp aren't profound and most likely won't change your life in any way...but they are a hell of a good read for the money.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078510822X?v=glance   (2045 words)

  
 The Ant Man
The Ant Man is the hottest jockey going.
Recently I received an e-mail: "I read an article on Chris Antley (that) he has a newsletter on the Internet 'The Ant Man Report.' I can’t find it.
During four Wednesday evenings in May, Antley, who was born 33 years ago in Fort Lauderdale, responded to scores of e-mail at Vinery.net on a variety of subjects from thoroughbreds to the stock market.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/horse_racing/21940   (450 words)

  
 The Mighty Avengers Vol. 3 #61-70
Scott Lang, because of his recent adventures with the Avengers, looses custody of his daughter to his ex-wife who is remarrying.
Thor and Iron Man, wearing the enchanted armour, continue their devastating battle.
Iron Man and Black Panther's effort to neutralize the cloud at a government research facility is roadblocked as the US Secretary of Defense escorts them out as they no longer sponsored by the United States.
members.fortunecity.com /jshayer/comics/avg2_070.html   (921 words)

  
 Dr. Nemesis (Ant-Man (Pym)/Giant Man (Foster) foe)
(Marvel Feature I#4)- While not identified, the man who would become Dr. Nemesis was part of M'Sieu Tete's gang, who kidnapped Billy Connors (the son of Curt Connors, the Lizard), in an effort to force him to surrender some experimental narcotics being used by Connors and Pym.
Ant-Man and Spider-Man defeated Tete and his gang, and took the antidote, but Ant-Man was trapped at ant size from lasting effects of the virus.
Giant Man then used the Pym growth particles to generate "waste anti-gravtions" (at least according to Hawkins), which cushioned their impact, and saved their lives.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/drnemesi.htm   (1455 words)

  
 COMICON.com: ANT MAN AND DANIEL WAY
Now the first issue of his Mature Readers/MAX Marvel Ant Man series is on the stands.
He's a man of few words, but he does knows a lot of profanity.
So...I once heard that Einstein had to tie a ribbon to his doorknob so he could remember which house was his.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=001701   (3151 words)

  
 Bureau 42 | Comic Review - "Essential Ant-Man Vol. 1"
54: Giant Man and Wasp are sent to a foreign nation to prove that El Toro, who wears bull horns on his helmet, fixed an election to be elected non-democratically.
His origin was rewritten part way through, he'd lose his powers to shrink and then use them again later in the story, and so on.
Some of these problems may not have been as obvious in the original four year run, but it stands out pretty well in a single volume.
www.bureau42.com /view/1038   (950 words)

  
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Major enemies: First appearance: Marvel Premiere #47 Origin: Description: Scott is a pleasant looking fellow standing 6' tall and weighing 180 lbs.
Explanation of the conversion: Ant-Man II's flight is when he flies on the back of a flying ant.
Since adopting the guise of Ant-Man II, Lang has gotten small on several occasions to assist Iron Man, Earth's other super heroes and the authorities, although he considers himself a part-time crimefighter.
www.sysabend.org /champions/gnborh/text/Ant-Man2-mi.txt   (799 words)

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