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Josh Goldberg
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Does anyone know if it's reprinted anywhere?
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Not reprinted yet.

With the new movie coming out it may.
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Cool.  I was in grade school and that was my very first introduction to the character.  Had no idea who Ant-Man was, much less that Yellow Jacket guy who showed up at the very end.  Ah, to be an innocent youth again, when everything was fresh and brand-new.
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Posted: 25 January 2015 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | 4  

There's a Scott Lang collection coming out that reprints those issues.


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Those issues of Marvel Premiere were recently featured on the Diversions Of The Groovy Kind blog website.  If you haven't read them (like I hadn't at the time) then here's your chance!  Hopefully the link will work.

Sorry.  Having trouble with the link.  Here's the address so you can copy and paste.

www.diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.ca/search/label/ant-m an

I've been trying to edit this post to remove the space between the m and a at the end of the address but something is not acknowledging my edit fix.  When you paste this address just remove the space before hitting enter.




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Matt Hawes
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I'm not absolutely certain, but I think the first part was reprinted as one of the comics you got with a Marvel Legends action figure. I am thinking, naturally, that the comic came with the Ant-Man figure. :-)
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Geoffrey Langford
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Posted: 26 January 2015 at 12:10am | IP Logged | 7  

You're correct Matt

Bummed me out it wasn't the other part of the story as I had that one random issue in my collection all these years and had never read the other part.
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The first of the two issues appeared in an episode of The Ropers, but the title was changed to "Shark-Man" onscreen.
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Matt Hawes
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I found a screen grab of that scene, Tim!


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I remember the kid sitting on the curb reading it, too.
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I wonder what the whole Shark-Man thing was about.
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I don't think there was much to it. They writers wanted the kid to be reading a comic, as many kids still did regularly in the 1970s', and they used "Shark Man" because "Ant-Man" was trademarked. It was easier, I assume, to just slap a sticker with another name over the original title than to print up a completely fake comic book.
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