Featuring: Hulk
Release: December 8, 1966
Cover: March 1967
12 cents
Handled with Hulktitude by Stan (The Man) Lee and Gil (Sugar) Kane
Lettered by: Sam Rosen
10 pages
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For, it is my intention to cleanse the Earth… to purify this tortured planet… in the only way possible… Civilization… as you know it… must be obliterated! The works of man… indeed, man himself, must be all but wiped out! Only then… with the planet scourged clean… scourged of the seeds of evil… can a new day dawn! Then, these humans who have survived the coming holocaust, shall build a better world… under my command! But I sense your thought! You are concerned about the fate of the millions who must perish! That can be of no concern to me! Human life means nothing to the Stranger! If all the solar system must be destroyed to bring peace to the universe, I would not shed a single tear at its passing! For I am the Stranger! I walk ever alone!
Boomerang is dead. Bruce Banner lies unconscious.
The Stranger had previously collected Magneto and Toad for his zoo. Has he come for the Hulk? Not for his zoo, apparently.
Instead, Hulk will be his weapon to cleanse the Earth of the scourge of mankind before mankind spreads its warlike ways to the universe.
Meanwhile, General Ross continues to hunt the Hulk. Betty wants to make sure he doesn’t hurt Bruce. Rick thinks he can reason with Hulk.
Hulk is now under the mental control of the Stranger and set to attack humanity. Because I know you’re as eager to see how that plays out as I am, we could go ahead and read the next couple issues of Tales to Astonish.
But because it’s so anticlimactic, we won’t. It can wait until next month.
Mails to Astonish.
Rating: ★★½, 49/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
Characters:
- Bruce Banner/Hulk
- Stranger
- Betty Ross
- Major Glen Talbot
- General Thunderbolt Ross
- Rick Jones
Story notes:
- Stan reminds us Stranger appeared in X-Men #11 and #18.
- Stranger concerned man is obsessed with war, and its obsession with atomic power makes it a threat to the universe.
- Stranger will use Hulk to destroy most of mankind, so the survivors can build a new and better world under his direction. The death of millions means nothing to… the Stranger.
- Ross continues to hunt Hulk; Betty wants assurances he won’t hurt Hulk, but Ross will kill Hulk if necessary.
- Rick thinks he can reason with Hulk; Ross allows to let him stay around.
- Stranger brings machine from his home galaxy to replenish his powers and make his commands irresistable.
- Banner turns into Hulk and tries to attack the Stranger.
- Stranger overcomes him and gives him a command to destroy mankind. The Stranger then takes his leave to deal with other matters.
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