What Is AntMans Suit Made Of In Marvel Comics

What Is Ant-Man’s Suit Made Of In Marvel Comics?

As Marvel’s smallest (and occasionally, one of its largest) heroes, Ant-Man’s suit is a scientific marvel that must grow and shrink in the field.

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What Is AntMans Suit Made Of In Marvel Comics

Ant-Man is not only one of Marvel’s smallest heroes, but also one of its most scientifically perplexing. With the ability to shrink down to the size of an ant, or grow to the size of a building, Ant-Man (and his alternate, Giant Man) presents a uniquely difficult conundrum to explain from a physics standpoint. Because Ant-Man is constantly changing in size, how does his suit accommodate these sudden, dramatic changes?

Early Ant-Man comics seem to have the answer. Debuting in Tales to Astonish #27 in 1962, the original Ant-Man, Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym, accidentally shrank himself with his own serum in his laboratory. With a creative team composed of Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, and Art Simek, the rest of the issue followed Henry’s escape from an ant hill, where he was helped up by a friendly ant to the window of his laboratory. Finding another vial of his serum, Dr. Pym was able to grow himself back to his normal size. Henry later on became Ant-Man in Tales to Astonish #35, designing his now iconic original suit for the hero.

With all the growing and shrinking that Ant-Man does, the question of his suit’s material inevitably arises. Because the suit not only shrinks and expands with Dr. Pym, but also protects him in combat, the Ant-Man suit is a scientific marvel. While the suit’s composition was revealed in Tales to Astonish #35, closer inspection of its scientific requirements reveals that it may be far more complicated.

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Tales to Astonish #35 establishes that Dr. Pym’s suit is composed of “steel mesh consisting of unstable molecules which stretch and contract” as Dr. Pym’s body grows and shrinks. While these “unstable molecules” are never further delineated upon, it is likely that they are the same ones Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) of the Fantastic Four uses for his team’s suits, allowing The Human Torch to turn his powers on and off without burning the suit off. Additionally, Ant-Man’s helmet does much more than protect Dr. Pym. Ants communicate to each other with their antennae, and the antennae on his helmet replicates this process, allowing him to control the ants’ movements.

Scientifically speaking, “unstable molecules” are those that are highly reactive to their environment, which could be potentially dangerous for Dr. Pym. However, seeing that this is a superhero comic about a character who can talk to ants, it is perhaps best if the exact science of his methods is left unexplained. Clearly, Henry Pym’s genius proves that if there is a will, there is a way for becoming Marvel’s smallest hero.

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