Tales to Astonish 1959 #42 - 4.5 - $48.00

A radio spokesman gains a hypnotic voice from radiation, and decides to test it by turning the people against Ant-Man. He captures Ant-Man and forces him to walk off a pier, but the ants rescue the hero, and he beats the Voice with laryngitis.

A bookkeeper dreams that he is a government agent hunting a mad scientist with a destructive sound device.

A crook steals a jewel from an ancient mummy, but the dead pharaoh's hypnotic powers make him see only death until he returns it.

A humanoid robot escapes his creator's lab with an artificial face and clothes in order to live among humans as a man. He is so disillusioned with human beings inhumanity to their fellows that he removes the mask and allows his creator to bring him back to the lab. His maker says to him "You must have known you could never have passed for human for long." to which the robot replies to the startled engineer "Has the thought never occurred to you that no robot would want to?"

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• The Man with the Voice of Doom! - Inks credit changed from Dick Ayers by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, February 2009. Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
• The Voice of Doom! - The Voice next appears in West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 1985 series) #36 (September 1988). In this story Ant-Man is said to live in "Center City".
• Secret Mission - The first page is printed between the pages of the Ant-Man story, while the second page is printed between "The Eyes of the Mummy!" and "I Am Not Human!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
• Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208) - Average circulation per issue October 1961?September 1962 (issues #28?38, despite monthly cover dates): 139,167. This shares the last page of "Secret Mission".
• I Am Not Human! - Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://ditkocultist.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/original-art-i-am-not-human-tales-to-astonish-421963/