The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... Ant-Man and the Wasp

Welcome to the Wellington Comic Lover’s (WCL) Guide, where we take you through the Wellington City Libraries’ collection of a comic book character. This post is about the Marvel Comics characters who grow and shrink with the power of Pym Particles: the Astonishing Ant-Man and the Wasp!

Who are Ant-Man and the Wasp?

Ant-Man is an identity adopted by a number of heroes (and one villain) based around the discoveries of Dr Hank Pym. Using the incredible 'Pym Particles' which can add or subtract mass, size, and strength to anything, Ant-Man can grow and shrink between human and insect size at will while maintaining his regular human strength.

The Wasp is an identity adopted by two heroines, fashion designer Janet van Dyne and teen prodigy Nadia van Dyne. Hank Pym also briefly donned the identity of the Wasp during a period where Janet was lost in the Microverse. Using Pym Particles, the Wasp can shrink to insect size, with the addition of having wings to fly and 'bio-electric stingers' to zap opponents.

Updated October 24, 2024
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Civil war : a Marvel Comics event
Millar, Mark.
Paper Book
Collects Civil War (2006) #1-7. Whose side are you on? A conflict is brewing that threatens to pit friend against friend, brother against brother and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and ignite the fuse! As the war claims its first victims, no one is safe as teams,...
War of the Realms: Giant-Man
Marvel Comics
Paper Book
The War of The Realms is upon us. Collecting: Classfied
The amazing Spider-Man. Vol. 1, Back to basics
Spencer, Nick
Paper Book
An alien invasion attacks New York City and the only one who can stop it is...Spider-Man?! But that's far from all you'll find here - a revelation from the past puts Peter Parker's job, relationships and whole life in jeopardy! And if even that's not enough, you'll see a new roommate, new love...
Secret invasion : Runaways/Young Avengers
Yost, Christopher.
Paper Book
Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda. Vol. 1, Eye of the storm
Zub, Jim
Paper Book
From the pages of Jason Aaron's Avengers! Vampires. Aliens. Angry fish kings. Black Panther's handpicked Agents of Wakanda can handle it all. And who better to lead them than the king of the world's most technologically evolved country? Wakanda is making waves on the world map... and not everyone's...
The unstoppable Wasp. Vol. 1, Fix everything
Whitley, Jeremy
Paper Book
Back by popular demand, it's Nadia Van Dyne - the Unstoppable Wasp! And her team of girl scientists is along for the ride too! With the backing of Janet Van Dyne, the original Wasp, there's no problem the Agents of G.I.R.L. can't solve! But they're not the only acronym-toting science organisation...
The unstoppable Wasp. Vol. 2, Unlimited. G.I.R.L. vs. A.I.M.
Whitley, Jeremy
Paper Book
The buzzworthy adventures of the Unstoppable Wasp continue! The agents of G.I.R.L. rally around Nadia Van Dyne as she recovers from a personal crisis that put the whole lab at risk. But after a fateful A.I.M. attack, one of Nadia's lab mates is undergoing some mysterious changes... and Nadia finds...

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