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Appearing in "The Incredible Hulk"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Jody

Antagonists:

  • Leroy
  • Billy

Locations:

  • Retribution

Vehicles:

  • Leroy's car the "Wild Cat"
  • Jody's Taxi

Synopsis for "The Incredible Hulk"

Bruce Banner arrives in the town of Retribution where he takes a cab from a woman named Jody to find some lodging for the night. The two get to talking, and Banner explains that he has come to the area to find a scientist that can possibly cure his "multiple personalities". Along the way, they witness a hot rodder named Leroy out racing his car, the Wild-Cat.

The street racer forces the cab off the road causing it to crash. Banner is uninjured but Jody is seriously harmed. Losing control, Banner then transforms into the Hulk. The Hulk then pulls Jody from the wreck before the cab explodes. The Hulk then tracks down Leroy who is about to street race with another hot rodder named Billy. He then grabs the bumpers of their cars to stop them from speeding off.

The Hulk then smashes their rides and orders the two men to take Jody to the hospital. Several days later, Banner visits Jody in the hospital and learns that she is expected to have a full recovery. Since is time for him to move on, Banner says his goodbyes. When Billy offers Banner a ride out of town, he declines telling the man that he would prefer to walk.

Appearing in "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."

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  • Spence

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Synopsis for "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."

After a failed attempt to destroy the helicarrier, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury is using all of the resources available to find out who is responsible. When they find evidence that the origin of the attack might come from Cairo, Fury declines to investigate that lead until he has a clearer idea of what is going on.

He then goes to Gaffer who is continuing his investigation on who sabotaged a training session. Suddenly there is a security alert, records officer Spence comes charging in claiming someone is trying to kill him. It turns out it is Carlysle Pallis who claims that Spence is the traitor. After Pallis gives his evidence, Fury believes it at first and when Carlysle asks if Fury is planning on going to Cairo, Fury still refuses to go, telling him to have the branch office there investigate that lead.

Nick then checks in with Dum Dum Dugan to learn what is going on in the world. He learns of a guerilla uprising in San Miguele. Fury orders more men be sent there to monitor the situation. When they start discussing Carlysle's accusations they think out the situation and realize that Pallis could have easily doctored the evidence and is most likely the real traitor in their midst. When Fury goes to confront Carlysle, the double agent begins shooting at Fury. The director follows the traitor up onto the upper deck of the helicarrier and in the heat of the battle, Pallis is knocked overboard when a ship catipult is triggered. As Carlysle falls to his ultimate demise, Fury is angry that even though they stopped the traitor, they are no closer to solving the mystery of who is attacking them.

Appearing in "Contact!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Tower of Shadows #6

Featured Characters:

  • Howard (First appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

  • Fal Ton
  • Fan Ton

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  • Alien Spacecraft

Synopsis for "Contact!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Tower of Shadows #6
  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "Return of the Ant-Man"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #35

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  • Tom (First appearance) (Pym's lab assistant)

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Synopsis for "Return of the Ant-Man"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #35

Doctor Henry Pym is a scientist who had invented two incredible serums, one to reduce objects, and the other to enlarge them back to their natural size. The reducing potion proved more powerful than he anticipated. It reduced him to the size of an insect and led him to the most frightening encounter of his life within a teeming ant hill. Frantically, Pym escaped from the ants and reached his enlarging serum. After he was restored to normal size, Pym destroyed his serums, which he felt were too dangerous to exist on Earth. However, weeks later he decided that such a great discovery should not melt into nothingness and concocted his serums again, this time locking them safely away in his safe.

After his experience in the ant hill, Henry Pym developed a growing interest in ants. Secretly, he made a thorough study of the ant world and determined that ants communicate electronically through their antennae. After long months of grueling work, he finally developed a helmet that would enable him to communicate with the ants by tuning into their specific wave length. Pym also designed a protective costume to shield him from accidental ant-sting or bite.

On the same day that he completed work on his helmet, the government gives Henry Pym a top secret scientific assignment to develop a gas to make people immune to radiation and provides him with four research assistants. Weeks later, the communists have learned of Pym’s work and have dispatched agents to steal the almost-completed formula.

Communist agents burst into Henry Pym’s laboratory and hold him and his research assistants at gun point, demanding the anti-radiation formula. When Pym refuses to divulge the formula, the agents decide to search the lab and find the information themselves. Trapped in his lab, Pym decides that the only way to prevent the communists from getting the anti-radiation gas is to use his reducing serum. Donning his newly completed helmet and costume, Pym uses his reducing serum to shrink to insect size.

Now ant-sized, Ant-Man uses a rubber band as a slingshot to hurl himself to a nearby window ledge, where he slips through the window crack and uses a piece of thread to lower himself to the ground.

Part 2: An Army of Ants!

His destination is the ant hill, where he learns that his cybernetic helmet actually works, allowing him to communicate with and command the ants. He is attacked by a large worker ant. As he fights the ant, he learns that somehow, he retains the strength of a full-grown man at his diminished size. After defeating the worker ant, Ant-Man adjusts his cybernetic helmet and sends a command through the ant hill, forming a small army of ants.

As Ant-Man exits the ant hill, his colorful costume attracts the attention of a beetle. Using his full-size strength, he quickly digs a deep hole, uses himself as bait to lure the beetle into it and then fills in the hole, trapping the beetle.

Ant-Man then mounts the largest of the worker ants and leads his army up the wall and onto the window ledge near his lab.

Part 3: The Ant-Man's Revenge!

After observing the communist agents, Ant-Man slips into the lab and with the help of the ants, unties his assistants. He then commands the ants to attack the agents, distracting them long enough for Pym’s assistants to overpower them.

With the communist agents defeated, Ant-Man heads for his laboratory, where he uses his enlarging serum to return to normal size and rejoin the others in the lab. Pym is left wondering if he will ever be forced to become the Ant-Man again?

Appearing in "Night Raven"

Featured Characters

Supporting Characters:

  • Police

Antagonists:

  • Madman McHooey

Locations:

  • Unnamed City

Synopsis for "Night Raven"

Madman McHooey has been terrorizing the city for three days and the police are in the middle of an armed stand-off with the criminal.

As shots are exchanged, a supposed blind man walks by and slips past the police cordon, narrowly avoiding a hail of bullets. Spotting the "blind man" an officer runs after him, but when he enters the lobby of the apartment building, the blind man is gone. In reality, it is the vigilante known as the Night Raven. Having doffed his disguise, the masked man takes the elevator to the floor where McHooey is holed up.

Using his blindman's walking stick, Night Raven distracts McHooey with his tapping. Making it sound like he has walked by, Night Raven waits at the door while McHooey goes out to check. The masked hero easily disarms the crook and brands him. He then sends McHooey down an elevator with a note pinned to him reading "Where Brooding Darkness Spreads its Wings the Night-Raven Stings!" The Night Raven exits out the back door, tossing away his walking stick as he goes. Passing a real blind man, the masked vigilante tosses a coin into his collection cup.

Appearing in "Beyond the Border Lurks Death!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Incredible Hulk #161

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Synopsis for "Beyond the Border Lurks Death!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Incredible Hulk #161

This story follows up from Amazing Adventures Vol. 2 Vol 1 16...

The Hulk has landed in Canada in his usual fashion: with a bang! The impact of his last leap has caused enough racket to draw the attention of a group of RCMP officers on horseback and prompts them to go an investigate. When they spot the Hulk, the Mounties calmly orders the Hulk to surrender to them to be turned over to the American authorities. The Hulk responds by pulling up the ground up from under their feet, sending the Canadian law enforcers tumbling to the ground. Regaining their feet, the Mounties begin to fire upon the Hulk, but the Hulk stops the attack when he strikes a tree and causes it to tumble into path before leaping away.

The news of Hulk's arrival into Canada spreads quickly, and at a border crossing between Ottawa and Montreal, Mounties refuse American travelers for their own safety. Among the cars in line is one being driven by Hank McCoy and his old girlfriend Vera Cantor. This setback upsets Vera, who needs Hank's genetics expertise on some important mission to save the whole world. Unknown to Vera, Hank was a member of the X-Men known as Beast, who recently mutated himself further to have the appearance of a literal beast in a laboratory accident. Hank knocks her out by pinching a nerve and changes out of his human disguise, revealing himself to the border patrol guards and carrying Vera over his shoulder. This startles the border guards long enough for Hank to slip by into Canada and into the woods. There, he changes back into his human disguise before Vera wakes up, and when Vera asks him how they got across the border, he tells her it's an old Rum smuggler secret and that he needed to knock out. Due to the urgency of Vera's problem, she accepts this, and the two continue on their quest.

Meanwhile, the Hulk is continuing to leap and bound across the Canadian wilderness when, suddenly, he realizes his great strength and abilities are slowly waning away, but he has no idea why. Discovering that if he goes a certain direction he continues to grow weaker, the Hulk decides to follow the trail and stop whoever is sapping away his strength.

While elsewhere, the Hulk and Vera reach their destination, a log cabin in the woods. After being signaled that the coast is clear, Hank learns that Vera has brought him to see his old foe, and former X-Men teammate, Mimic. When he considers that Mimic didn't tell Vera about his secret identity, Hank deduces that Calvin Rankin really does need his scientific expertise to tackle whatever problem is threatening the world. Inviting them in, Calvin explains to Hank that his mimicking power has grown out of control and that he's begun not only mimicking peoples powers, but also leeching them away to the point where he could potentially kill them. Calvin has been trying his best to control his abilities, but they continue to grow and fade as time progresses, getting stronger each time. By his calculations, Calvin believes that his powers could cause him to suck the life out of every living thing on the planet. Taking them to the basement of the cabin, he reveals that he and Vera have pooled all their money into expensive equipment to try and cure Mimic of his powers; however, to date, they have not succeeded and decided to seek Hank out to see if he can help somehow.

Now finding that his leaping ability and strength have been greatly diminished, the Hulk continues to plod on even if it means the end of him. Back in the States, General Ross has learned that the Hulk has arrived in Canada and asks for permission to cross the border in order to deal with the Hulk. This request is denied as the Canadian authorities wish to study the situation and determine their own solution, so Ross is ordered to remain in the United States. Furious that the Hulk is in Canada where his daughter Betty is currently on her honeymoon with Glenn Talbot, the General swears to prevent the Hulk from ruining her recent marriage and is not willing to let bureaucracy stop him from doing so.

The Hulk, meanwhile, has tracked the source of his power drain to Mimic's cabin. Before the Hulk can climb down to its location, he suddenly has a fainting spell and falls down on the cabin, crashing down to the basement where Hank has begun his experiments on Calvin and his powers. Hank tries to reason with the Hulk, get him to understand that Calvin is sick and that he should leave, but the Hulk realizes that Mimic is the source of his waning power and swats Hank aside.

With Vera having gone to seek cover, Hank changes out of his disguise and attacks the Hulk as the Beast. The two pummel each other but find that they are equally matched. Not wishing his potential savior to be harmed by the Hulk, Calvin gets up off the table and tries to join the fight. Realizing that there is no help for him, and feeling guilty that the Hulk is suffering because of his powers, Mimic decides to do the drastic: absorb the properties of the Hulk's Gamma radiation into his body. Dying of radiation poisoning, Mimic thanks Hank for his attempt at helping him, but even though he is dying, he has at least saved the world. With his strength returning, the Hulk tries to comprehend what just happened and decides to leave, determining that whatever went on didn't involve him. As the Hulk wanders off into the woods, already beginning to forget the encounter, Hank changes back into his human disguise and tells Vera the bad news.

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Continuity Notes[]

Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

  • Dum Dum Dugan's appearance here is complicated as he's not in the flesh. He was mortally wounded decades ago as revealed in Original Sins #5. He has since been operating in sophisticated LMD bodies as revealed in New Avengers (Vol. 4) #17.

Publication Notes[]

  • A free set of six Hulk stickers (for the sticker album given away in the previous issue) is taped to the front cover of this issue.

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