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The Incredible Hulk #2

Jul 1962
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

The Incredible Hulk #2 cover

Story Name:

The Terror Of The Toad Men! Part 1, Enter... The Toad Men


Synopsis

The Incredible Hulk #2 synopsis by Julio Molina-Muscara
Rating: 3 stars
Image from The Incredible Hulk #2

Out of control, Hulk rampages through a city at night, until Rick Jones can calm him down and take him away. At dawn, Hulk turns into Bruce Banner, who builds a resistant underground compartment to hold the Hulk at night, and prevent the monster from running free. That is a temporary measure until Banner can find a cure for himself.

Meanwhile, an alien race, the Toad Men, approaches our planet, planning an invasion. Needing to know humankind’s technological and weaponry advances, they scan the population for the “brightest scientist” and find Banner. The Toad Men kidnap Banner and Jones.

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Story #2

Part 2, Prisoners of the Toad Men!

Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Steve Ditko. Colorist: Stan Goldberg. Letterer: Art Simek.

Synopsis

Finding Rick Jones useless, the Toad Men return him to Earth. Trapped in space, Bruce Banner receives moonlight and turns into the Hulk. The monster (who now has green skin instead of gray) defeats his captors easily.

Hulk finds powerful weapons on the alien ship and uses them against humankind because they hound them. Thunderbolt Ross launches missiles destroying the starship which falls into the ground.

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Story #3

Part 3, Bruce Banner, Wanted for Treason!

Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Steve Ditko. Colorist: Stan Goldberg. Letterer: Art Simek.

Synopsis

The Toad Men survive the crash and escape unseen through an underground tunnel they dig. Bruce Banner emerges from the destroyed ship, and Thunderbolt Ross, assuming he is a traitor, locks him up.

Suddenly, thousands of Toad Men starships fill the skies.

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Story #4

Part 4: Hulk Runs Amok!

Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Steve Ditko. Colorist: Stan Goldberg. Letterer: Art Simek.

Synopsis

The leader of the Toad Men lets the world know about their intentions. Humans should surrender! They move the moon closer to the Earth, causing floods and earthquakes.

At night, Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk, who breaks free from his prison and goes to Betty Ross’ house. Rick Jones and Thunderbolt Ross with soldiers arrive and find them.

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Story #5

Part 5: The End of the Hulk?

Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Paul Reinman. Colorist: Stan Goldberg. Letterer: Art Simek.

Synopsis

Hulk easily dispatches the soldiers, grabs Betty Ross and leaves. Rick Jones thinks he brought Betty to Banner’s secret cave lab and, effectively, he finds them there.

Hulk tries hitting Jones, but an earthquake makes them fall, knocking them out. Hulk turns into Bruce Banner at sunrise.

The brilliant scientist realizes how to get rid of the Toad Men. Using his Gammatron super cannon, Banner shoots the starships to a faraway point in space.

Banner then receives a pardon for his heroic actions. Yet Thunderbolt Ross distrusts Banner’s relation with the Hulk.

Right before sunset, Jones and Banner go to the secret cave and Rick locks Banner in a chamber to prevent the Hulk from escaping and rampaging at night.

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Quotes

Interesting passages found in this comic book.

"The Hulk has no friends!"
~ HULK
"I'll never understand what you see in a weakling like Bruce Banner, Betty!"
~ THUNDERBOLT ROSS
"Our grapplers have focused on the most brilliant scientific brain on Earth, according to our command! Bruce Banner."
~ TOAD MEN

 

Review / Commentaries


The Incredible Hulk #2 Review by (February 15, 2010)
Comments:
The color of the Hulk’s skin changes from gray to green because the gray color did not print correctly in the printers of those days. But the comics do not explain the change in color. Not until much later, when Hulk incarnations were used to explain why the color of his skin changes.

This is the first Hulk issue with a “Letters to the Editor” page. The address to mail letters was “Editors,” The Hulk, Third Floor, 655 Madison Ave., New York 21, N.Y."



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Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK (1962) #1-6, TALES TO ASTONISH (1959) #100, INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #102, and material from TALES TO ASTONISH (1959) #59-99 and #101.

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Main/1st Story Full Credits

Jack Kirby
Steve Ditko
Stan Goldberg
Jack Kirby (Cover Penciler)
Steve Ditko (Cover Inker)
Stan Goldberg (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: Art Simek.
Editor: Stan Lee.

Characters

All stories. Listed in alphabetical order.

Betty Ross
Betty Ross

(Elizabeth Ross)
Bruce Banner
Bruce Banner

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Hulk
Hulk

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Thunderbolt Ross
Thunderbolt Ross

(Thaddeus Ross)


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