Tales to Astonish #42 (1963)
By Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck
So, What Happens? A certain Jason Cragg has the power to control people with his voice, and orders the crowd to push Ant-Man away from the city. A few weeks earlier, he was a simple radio announcer, and not a particularly good one at that, but one day due to a nearby experiment his microphone became radioactive and made his voice impossible to resist to. He immediately quit his job and started travelling, until eventually deciding to test himself by defeating Ant-Man and gaining control of the city. Back to the present, Cragg stirs both the general public and the police against Ant-Man, whose helmet fortunately makes him immune to the villain's powers. Hank Pym manages to get away and tries to go back to his lab to return to normal size, but when crossing a field he is found by the crowd, who use magnets to pull his helmet and empty gas canisters. Without his helmet, Hank is powerless against Cragg's voice and has to obey his order to dive from the pier and drown, but his ants are loyal and save him even without a telepathic order. Back to the lab, Hank returns to full size and prepares a plan: a few days later, the night before Cragg is scheduled to appear on live TV, Ant-Man steals a bottle of germs and a fake gun, which he then uses to force Cragg to retract his accusations againt him. Realizing he has been outsmarted, the guy tries to take control of the crowd again, but Hank had covered his microphone with the microbes of laryngitis, making his voice hoarse and powerless. Convinced that he will never regain the exact same voice, Cragg leaves the city.
