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| Super Name: | Hank Pym |
| Real Name: | Henry Pym |
| Aliases: |
Dr. Henry Pym Giant-Man Ant-Man Goliath Yellowjacket Doctor Pym |
| Publisher: | Marvel |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | Tales to Astonish #27 |
| Appears in: | 703 issues |
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Hank Pym is a genius, one of the founding members of the Avengers, the creator of Pym Particles, and a modern-day superhero. Edit
Origin
Hank Pym has held several identities.
Adventures as Ant-Man
Ant-Man’s Secret Lair.
Ant-Man on his mount.
Enter The Wasp
Hank Pym first met Janet Van Dyne when her father, noted astrophysicist, approached Hank to see if he would collaborate on a project he was working on. Hank turned down the offer and Janet almost slipped out his life; even after they left Hank was haunted by how much Janet looked like his murdered wife Maria. Vernon Van Dyne continued his experiments to pierce through the void of space and detect signals originating from other planets. On one night, something terrible answered his signal. An alien criminal from Kosmos rode the telescope beam back to Earth and scared Vernon to death. Janet didn't know who to call for help and phoned Hank who at first thought she was pulling his leg. Upon consulting with his ant information network, he found out the horrible truth and went to her as Ant-Man to help. Janet loved her father dearly, she felt she must avenge him. Ant-Man told her to call the F.B.I. and alert them of the alien menace and then go to Hank Pym's laboratory. Back at the lab, Hank revealed to Janet that he was Ant-Man and offered to give her the power to shrink, wings and antennae...a human wasp. She vowed to avenge her father and bring justice to all who need it. As Ant-Man and Wasp, the new dynamic twosome tracked down the monster responsible for her father's death. Wasp's desire to prove to Hank that she was not a child almost resulted in her untimely death as Ant-Man's ants were not able to approach the creature. Ant-Man discovered that the creature was largely based on formic acid and concocted a substance to neutralize its physical form. For a while, Janet and Hank were a solitary team they faced many threats including a return of Egghead, who captured Jan as bait, a trip to Greece that had them fighting a robot cyclops and space aliens bent on conquest, and even a powersuited villain known as the Porcupine. It was during this time that Hank realized his catapult was of little use when Jan could fly and enlisted the aid of a flying ant named Korr to help him travel faster. They would have continued to fight evil as just Ant-Man and Wasp if one day they did not receive a radio signal from the teen brigade stating the Hulk must be found...
Ant-Man
Avengers Assemble
Ant-Man and Wasp were not the only heroes to answer the call, both Iron Man and Thor also heard the call for help. Together they tracked the Hulk to a circus and tried to get him to turn himself in. Iron Man, Ant-Man and Wasp fought the green behemoth for a long time until Thor realized that their mission was false and that his half-brother Loki was the cause of all the mischief. Hank and Janet realized that the five of them all had different powers and if they combined forces they would be unstoppable. All agreed it was a sound idea and Janet dubbed them the Avengers. Being an Avenger brought both benefits and disadvantages. One of the first changes to Hank Pym's life was accidental creation of the Giant-Man identity. Hank found that if he grew to a height of more than 12 feet, he would be unable to stand properly. This lead to a refinement of the Pym serum into a series of color-coded pills to allow quicker size change. With his work on the Avengers against threats such as the Space Phantom and Namor, fame followed them and soon Hank and Jan had to deal with a Giant-Man fan club that followed them. Separate from the Avengers, Hank and Jan were handed their first defeat at the spinning hands of the Human Top (Dave Cannon, later called Whirlwind). During this time, Janet began to notice changes in Hank's behavior. Whenever he was enlarged as Giant-Man he was more reckless in his behavior and acted selfishly like he was too good for anyone or anything. The Human Top would continue to plague Hank Pym and Janet and eventually become obsessed with making Janet his woman. Away from the Avengers, Hank and Jan continued to pile up an impressive rogue's gallery including a host of aliens, the Black Knight, and the commie dictator from Santo Rico named El Toro. Hank's relationship with the Avengers began to become strained as they ignored the threat of the Mole Man that his ant network warned him about. He was blown off by Thor, rejected by the rest of the Avengers and even Wasp> refused to help because she had a hair appointment. Shortly thereafter, Janet was critically injured in battle with Count Nefaria and Hank and Jan decided to take a leave of absence from the Avengers.The End of Ant-Man
After leaving the Avengers, Hank and Jan tried to retire only to be drawn time and time again into battle with super villains like Attuma, Madam Macabre, the Human Top and finally Hidden Man. The Hidden Man was an alien who using a specially created ray gun that robbed Hank of his ability to shrink to Ant-Man size. The Pym Particles that Hank Pym used to change size began to have terrible effects on his biology. It became increasingly difficult for Hank to growth in size without causing himself great pain. Janet was captured by the warlike Atlantean Attuma, frightened that he would unable to rescue her on his own Hank again enlisted the aid of the Avengers and redonned his tights as the hero Goliath. As Goliath, Hank was a regular figure in the Avengers Mansion as he struggled to stabilize his size-changing ability. During this time he made friends with a new lab partner named Bill Foster who would help Hank stabilize his powers and eventually adopt the costume identity of Black Goliath himself. Hank's mental instability was tested yet again when the Avengers faced a new Masters Of Evil. This team was organized by a figure known as the Crimson Cowl and was composed of Klaw, Whirlwind (formerly the Human Top), Melter and Radioactive Man. This evil force was successful at capturing the Avengers and would have killed them if not for the timely intervention of Black Knight (see Dane Whitman). The Crimson Cowl was revealed to be an insane robotic entity that called itself Ultron-5.Weeks later, Janet is attacked in her apartment by a strange being, a synthezoid named the Vision. The Vision collapsed before capturing Jan and was taken back to Avengers headquarters to be examined by Hank. Vision regained consciousness and briefly attacked the Avengers before revealing that he was built by a robot named Ultron-5 and was sent to kill them. With the Vision's help Ultron-5 was destroyed. Later Hank realized that months ago he had been working on making an artificial being but couldn't remember the result of the experiment or why he had stopped. When the Avengers traveled to Hank's home to investigate they found the building sealed up but completely repair, yet Hank couldn't remember having it fixed up since he had an unsuccessful experiment with the Dragon Man. Using technology Hank had in the lab to stimulate his memories he remembered building a robotic life form with artificial intelligence. The robot called him father and tried to kill him, Hank resisted but was defeated by Ultron-1. Ultron used his ultrobeam to hypnotize Hank to make him forget that Ultron was even born and to leave this domicile forever. Hank had just created the Avengers' most powerful and versatile enemy. Hank descended into his 2nd nervous breakdown.
Hank Pym is Dead, Long Live Yellowjacket!
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Birth of Jocasta
Bride of Ultron.
The Fall of Hank Pym
Being a hero was never something that Hank was completely comfortable with, as an Avenger he frequently felt outclassed and his feelings of inadequacy soon destroyed his self esteem and drove him to irrational acts. He had been in and out of the Avengers many times but following the unexpected resignation of Beast and Wonder Man, Hank was going to get another shot at being a hero. The stress unfortunately proved too much from him and his marriage suffered. He was constantly infuriated with Janet's flightiness, her lateness and her money. He accused her of flaunting her money at every opportunity and told her that he didn't need her anymore.
The Slap.
Hank in custody.
Living and Loving on the West Coast
Ultron-12 decides to have a new relationship with Hank.
Hank decides to end it all.
Like a Phoenix, Doctor Pym
Espirita, Hank and Rover.
Onslaught
Hank Pym was one of the Avengers thought to have been killed in the battle with the monster known as Onslaught. Hank and his fellow Avengers were lost in a Counter-Earth created by Franklin Richards for just over a year.Avengers Reborn
Following the Avengers return from <Counter-Earth, Hank resumed the heroic identity of Giant-Man and fought Frost Giants in the deep arctic until Morgan Le Fay reimagined the world. He was unable to shake off Morgan Le Fey's enchantment and served her loyally until Scarlet Witch defeated her. Hank, Wasp, Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor sat down as the founders of the Avengers to decide who would stay on the team. Hank had recently got a new job at a research firm, so he would not be seeking active membership. Hank and Jan briefly suited up for the Avengers' Day celebration that the city of New York threw to welcome the heroes back. During the events of that day, the Avengers were attacked by the Grim Reaper and a new Legion of the Unliving composed of fallen comrades. Following the defeat of the Grim Reaper, Hank served as a scientific adviser to the group and was called in by Scarlet Witch to consult on the nature of Firestar's powers. He created for her a bio-circuitry suit to wear under her costume that would drain away any microwave energy that tried to harmfully build up in her body. It would also train her own body's resistance over a period of six months.Destiny War
When the enigmatic Time Keepers decided that humanity was too great a threat to the multiverse, they sent their agent Immortus to kill Rick Jones. This plan was opposed by the Kree Supreme Intelligence, Libra and Kang who felt humanity had a right to find its own future, instead of one shaped by the Time Keepers. When Rick was attacked, Libra kickstarted the Destiny Force with Rick to draw champions to his side from the very fabric of time itself. A rag-tag team of Avengers was formed including two who were Hank Pym–an ill-at-ease hero Giant-Man from the post-onslaught era and a cocky and deranged Yellowjacket from the day of his wedding to Janet. The assembled Avengers decided it would be better to take the fight to Immortus than hide outside the timestream as Libra and Kang recommended. The Yellowjacket that is part of this team is still deranged and believes completely that he actually killed Hank Pym and Janet and him must still be living together happily in the future. Giant-Man is completely uncomfortable with the inclusion of Yellowjacket and instead of confronting the issue retreats into an analytic frame of mind trying to find the bigger picture. In their attempt to track Immortus they arrive in a Chronopolis that is under siege but are able to procure a sphinx-shaped timeship from Kang before Chronopolis is wiped from existence. A heated argument between Hawkeye and Libra results in Libra leaving the Avengers on a timeship they have no experience using. By the combined genius of Hank Pym and Hank Pym, the Avengers gain control over the ship and begin to locate various temporal anomalies that Immortus has created in order to disrupt his plans. This has the Avengers in many different eras of Earth-616’s history and future including: Giant-Man and Captain America traveling to Earth-616 during the Killraven’s time, Hawkeye, Songbird and Yellowjacket traveling to Kid Colt and Two-Gun Kid’s wild west, and Wasp and Genis-Vell travel to the 1950’s Avengers (see Agents of Atlas) era. The Avengers fail to prevent Immortus’ tampering and discover that all the major events in Avengers history have been carefully sculpted according to his plan. Having been rebuked by Janet already, Yellowjacket tries to pick up Songbird, who points out that he is Hank Pym and that in her future he is married to her best friend, Janet.
Betrayal!