Tales to Astonish 1959 #38 - 4.0 - $85.00

• First app: Egghead

An scientist is hired by crooks to defeat Ant-Man. He tries to turn the ants against the hero and trap him, but the ants are loyal to Ant-Man and he foils Egghead's scheme.

A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.

An experimental time machine seems to fail, aging its inventor 10 years. In fact he travelled into a fantastic future, but had his memory erased as punishment for trying to sow discord.

An art critic visits a sculptor to give him his opinion of his work. He tells the crestfallen man that his statues appear lifeless. He faints when one of the statues calls him a fool. It turns out the 'statues' were aliens attempting to pose as Earthlings in order to infiltrate. They deposit the critic outside and depart Earth.

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U.S. Copyright Office filings.

• Betrayed by the Ants! - Cover inks credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 January 2009); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. Letters credit from George Olshevsky.
• Betrayed by the Ants!! - Egghead is the first villain to reappear and become a member of Ant-Man's rogues gallery (such as it was), becoming his arch-enemy; he next appears in issue #45 (July 1963).
• Strange Mission - Text story with illustration.
• I Found the Impossible World! - D'Agostino letters credit per Nick Caputo. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index erroneously credited John Duffy. Job number revealed on original art: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/don-heck-original-art-for-tales-to-astonish-38-complete-8-page-story-i-found-the-impossible-world-marvel-1962-a-t/a/810-1302.s
• Secret of the Statues! - Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.