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How Scott Lang saved Marvel's Ant-Man
Hank Pym drove the character of Ant-Man into the ground. But fifteen years later, writer David Michelinie came up with a new Ant-Man who saved not only the day but the character.
When Scott Lang became Ant-Man in 1979’s Marvel Premiere #47, he seemed like a strange choice to take on the role. The original Ant-Man Hank Pym was one of the world’s greatest geniuses, on the level of Reed Richards, Bruce Banner, and Tony Stark. Meanwhile though Scott Lang had been a brilliant electrical engineer, he was more recently an ex-con thrown in jail for using his talents to steal from people. He’s also a father with a sick daughter.
But as unusual as his background was, it turned out Scott Lang was exactly what Ant-Man needed.
The Hank Pym Problem
While some point to storylines that come decades after his origins as the moments that “broke” him as a character, in truth Hank Pym is a problem pretty much from his introduction in Tales to Astonish
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