Ian Millsted (back Issue #76) : « When I got West Coast Avengers, I didn’t have any burning desire to use him (Pym) », says Englehart. But Mark Gruenwald, the editor, decide after a while that he wanted him in the book, and Mark had an idea of what to change him into this time : (Marvel’s answer to) Dr. Who."
« He described a dr. Pym who would not be a costumed hero bout would be a distinctively dressed scientist. This did not thrill me, but I had to do it–so I sat down and took a long look at him, and came to the conclusion he was a loser, so. maybe the storyline that could make him finally work requiert facing that problem head-on, rather than trying to ignore it. thus, I brought him in as the character Mark wanted, but had a clear plan about running the character toward suicide. Obviously, he would not ultimately commit suicide, though I didn’t have the exact reason for that when I started along that road ; that’s how I work, knowing that when it was time to solve that problem I would, and I’d have all the character development to that point in hand, which is the part that mostly interested me. »