Giant-Size Super-Stars (1974 series) #1

Hulk leaps through the air, knocking a traffic copter out of the air. He arrives in Manhattan, not knowing how or why. He lies down and goes to sleep in an alley where he transforms back into Bruce Banner. When he awakens, Bruce realizes there is only one person who can help him: Reed Richards. So he heads for the Baxter Building…

…where Ben Grimm, alias the Thing, is doing some housecleaning, moving around Reed’s massive machinery. He gets a call from the doorman about a visitor; Ben is annoyed but when he learns it is Bruce Banner he asks for him to be sent up. Bruce enters and immediately collapses. After a rest, Bruce explains he has come to see Reed about curing his Hulking condition. Ben explains how Reed has been trying to do the same for him without success. When Bruce learns Reed has a psi-amplifier, he comes up with an idea. Bruce makes some adjustments to the machine so that Thing’s cosmic radiation and Hulk’s gamma radiation are transferred to each other, hopefully cancelling each other out and curing both men. They strap themselves into the machine and Bruce switches it on, he transforms into Hulk, Ben is overwhelmed, and the top of the building blows off….

Down in the street, pedestrians flee for safety but Thundra, on her way to the Baxter Building, hurries on her way. Upstairs, Ben recovers then realizes…he is the Hulk. And the Thing…? It’s now Hulk in his body. A very angry Hulk. And the battle is on….

Meanwhile, Reed Richards, Human Torch, and Medusa are flying back to the Baxter Building after testing a flying vehicle that was a gift from Black Panther. Impatient, Johnny takes off and flies on ahead to discover the BB is missing its roof and Thing is battling Hulk in the wreckage. Orange Hulk hurls Green Thing off the roof but Ben is able to catch on to the masonry and climb back inside, where Thundra, mistaking him for Hulk (of course), attacks him with her big chain. Orange Hulk arrives and assaults Thundra then continues pounding on Green Thing. The fight goes down to the street, then through the street into the path of an oncoming subway train….

A few minutes earlier, Human Torch landed and got an earful of anger from the landlord who had been trying to evict the FF so that he could profit from some changes. Johnny brushes him off then tries to pick up the combative duo again. Which Thundra has done, seeing tremors running through the Earth from beneath. She crashes to the subway just as the two giant heroes are in the path of the train. Thinking the train is about to hit Thing, she comes to his aid and she and Orange Hulk stop the train. Then Hulk clobbers her and takes off….

Hulk and Thing surface in the boxing ring in Madison Square Garden during a match, sending the crowd into flight. As they smash and clobber one another, Reed and Medusa arrive with Johnny. Orange Hulk is winning the fight because he is propelled by anger whereas Ben can’t seem to gain control of the unfamiliar body. Torch enters the ring but “Thing” punches him out, shocking Reed and Medusa. Then Reed catches on to the situation and, filling a syringe with tranquilizer, he injects Green Thing, who is shocked, thinking Reed made a mistake. But once the tranquilizer kicks in, Hulk turns back to Bruce Banner, forcing Ben’s mind back to his own body. Reed explains how he figured it all out and Thundra comes in and clobbers Ben as she thinks it was Thing who hit her earlier. Ben is confused and the only advice Reed can offer is that Ben apologize to her.

In the Beginning…

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By Peter Silvestro
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Editor Roy presents the new extra-large monthly comic with rotating features—which was almost instantly abandoned for Giant-Size issues dedicated to individual characters. Too bad. It was a nice idea while it lasted.

Giant-Size Super-Stacks

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By Peter Silvestro
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Rogues Gallery

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By Peter Silvestro
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