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Quote1 What'll we do? You can't lick a whole platoon of these cats! Look at the hardware they're carryin', Hulk! Quote2
-- Rick Jones

Appearing in "The Monster and the Machine!"Edit

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Synopsis for "The Monster and the Machine!"Edit

Incredible Hulk Vol 1 4 001
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Betty Ross is milling about the Desert Base. She reflects upon recent events, particularly the lives of Bruce Banner, Rick Jones and the incredible Hulk. She finds her father General Ross who is testing the effectiveness of his prototype "Iceberg Rocket" against a facsimile of the Hulk. A jet-powered faux Hulk is launched into the air and the rocket targets the projectile, encasing it in a block of ice. Ross is satisfied with the test, confidant that this rocket will succeed in capturing the real Hulk. He then sends his soldiers out to track down the Hulk.

Rick Jones meanwhile is inside his cottage with the true Hulk, who is still under his mental control due to an accidental overdose of cosmic radiation. When Rick sees soldiers coming to capture him, he orders the Hulk to flee. Without a word, the Hulk leaps away and lands in a nearby town.

General Ross is convinced that Rick Jones knows more about the Hulk then he lets on. He interrogates Rick at length, but when the boy refuses to cooperate, Ross has him arrested. Rick sends out a telepathic S.O.S. to the Hulk. The Hulk turns back and super-jumps his way back to Rick's location. He scoops him out of the army jeep and leaps away. Rick directs him to Doctor Banner's secret cave. Once inside, he places the Hulk in front of a gamma ray projector. After reading some of Banner's notes, he activates the device and the Hulk transforms back into Bruce Banner.

After careful study, Banner concludes that regulated doses of gamma radiation might give him the power to control his transformations. After making some adjustments to the projector, he has Rick used it upon him, this time instigating the change into the Hulk. The Hulk now has the intelligence of Bruce Banner, but he still maintains the machismo brutishness of the Hulk. Rick is happy for the Hulk and more than a little scared.

The Hulk decides that he wants to commit good deeds. He goes outside of town where he finds a farmhouse on fire. The Hulk tears away the burning wall of the house and pitches them into the distance. Though the family inside are now safe, they are terrified of the monster's presence. The Hulk then takes Rick back to the secret cave where another dose of gamma rays turns him back into Bruce Banner.

Appearing in "The Gladiator from Outer Space!"Edit

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Synopsis for "The Gladiator from Outer Space!"Edit

Boris Monguski
Mongu!
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An alien spacecraft lands in the middle of a heavily populated area. Out steps Mongu, a barbaric savage wielding a war-ax. Mongu issues an open challenge to anyone who dares to face him one-on-one in mortal combat. Should Mongu be defeated, then he will leave the planet Earth forever. But should he prove victorious, then he will summon a mighty space fleet that will conquer the Earth. He announces that anyone who is brave enough to accept his challenge should meet him in the Grand Canyon at dusk.

Bruce Banner learns of the threat of Mongu and realizes that only the power of the Hulk has any chance of stopping him. Stepping onto a platform in front of the Gamma Ray Projector, he activates the machine, transforming into the incredible Hulk. The Hulk scoops up Rick Jones then bounds away to accept Mongu's challenge.

When the Hulk arrives in the Grand Canyon, he finds Mongu standing near his space ship atop a butte. The Hulk quickly discovers that he has been lured into a trap. Mongu is not actually a space invader, but is in fact, a Communist agent inside of a battle-suit. The pilot of the suit, Boris Monguski summons his men to overtake the Hulk. The soldiers surround the Hulk and train their guns on him, but the Hulk leaps into the air. When he lands, he causes a ground-quake that forces all of the soldiers to scatter. One of the frightened men lobs a grenade at the Hulk, but the Hulk easily catches it, allowing it to explode harmlessly in his hand. Another soldier inside the "space craft" (which is actually just a disguised MIG) uses a sonic weapon to weaken the Hulk. The Hulk burrows underground and comes up beneath the ship, tearing it in half. Boris Monguski summons a Soviet helicopter to open fire on the Hulk, but this tactic yields little success. The Hulk gathers all of the soldiers together, then binds them using their own belts as rope. He then attaches them to a tow cable and returns them to their helicopter. Having lost all patience with the Russians, the Hulk grabs Rick and leaps away. Military officers converge on the scene and confiscate the abandoned Mongu battle-suit. They mistakenly believe that the Hulk was responsible for staging this elaborate hoax.

NotesEdit

  • First and only appearance of Boris Monguski. He is not to be confused with Mongu, a foe of the Avengers.
  • First appearance of Banner's private laboratory inside the sanctuary cave.
  • This issue establishes that Rick Jones is sixteen-years-old at the time of publication.
  • Includes a flashback of the Gamma Bomb explosion from issue #1.
  • First appearance of the Hulk Robot. The robot that appears in this issue is but one of several different models that will appear over the years. This particular model was developed by the United States military and is a non-functioning crude facsimile of the Hulk.
  • Rick's mental control over the Hulk was established last issue.


TriviaEdit

  • This is the first issue where the Hulk uses a super-clap to generate a sonic wave to repel adversaries.
  • First issue where Hulk maintains Bruce Banner's intellect. While in this form of the Hulk his personality is slightly more brutish than Banner's usual demeanor, this foreshadows future incarnations of the Hulk such as "Professor Hulk" or "Joe Fixit".
  • This is the first time that the Hulk is attacked by soldiers with sonic cannons. In the 2008 Incredible Hulk feature film, the U.S. Army attempt a similar tactic which yields similar results.



See AlsoEdit



  1. ↑ First and only known appearance to date besides flashbacks


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