Marvel's Identity Crisis

Since we're picking on Henry Pym today, let's look at an instance where he did his own version of DC's Identity Crisis...40 years early!!

We start with Pym being Pym:

Unfortunately, his above average oafishness was observed by "Second-Story Sammy," a loser of a burglar:


PRO-TIP: If you want to have a secret identity, don't carry around business cards with your real name on them. I'm just sayin.'

Well, after a rousing adventure wherein Sammy steals Pym's Giant-Man suit and engages in a series of growing/shrinking burglaries, he's caught. But given the chance, he doesn't spill Giant-Man's secret identity to the press. What gives?

"Just happened to have some memory-loss serum lying around"?!? Memory-loss serum?!?!?! So potent that it turns crooks straight??? Playing judge and jury on his own, just to selfishly protect the secret identity he would abandon eventually anyway?

Hank Pym--making Zatanna look ethical!!

From Tales To Astonish #62 (1964).