Ant-Man Quantumania

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will explore the Quantum Realm but in the Marvel Comics, the Micronauts toys had a bigger part to play.

[Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania](https://nerdist.com/article/everything-we-know-about-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania/), the license to Micronauts comics has traded hands several times since 1986. [Sub-Atomica](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sub-Atomica) became the name of this realm. [Micronauts the comic](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Micronauts_Vol_1_1) began in 1979, just as the power of the toys faded away (thanks a lot, Star Wars). Not as cool or catchy of a name as the Microverse, but Marvel had no choice but to revert to using it. After the last issue of Micronauts in 1986, Marvel Comics lost its license to the property. The way these corporate mergers seem to happen constantly, Disney could buy Hasbro one of these days, and the Micronauts could theoretically “come home” to the MCU at some point. But for Marvel Comics fans of a certain age, the Quantum Realm might seem a bit like another very similar world from the pages of Marvel Comics — [the Microverse](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Microverse). And it all has to do with a very popular toyline that originated in the 1970s called [Micronauts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20p45xt_ZDw). [Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trailer](https://nerdist.com/article/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-trailer-quantum-realm-mcu-kang-the-conqueror/) was the introduction of a civilization within the Quantum Realm, now a full-on microscopic universe with many beings of all stripes that live within it. But the short version is this: A series of toys that began in Japan called Microman, came to America via 1970s toy giant [ Mego](https://megofigures.com/) and received a new name. The so-called Micronauts came together in response to the evil Baron Karza, an immortal black-armored dictator, who had taken over Homeworld. [Rocket Raccoon](https://nerdist.com/article/rocket-city-trash-pandas-baseball-team-gotg/), swayed Marvel’s editor-in-chief Jim Shooter to pick up the Micronauts license in 1978, after his son got some Micronauts toys for Christmas.