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The Incredible Hulk #3

Sep 1962
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

The Incredible Hulk #3 cover

Story Name:

The Hulk, Part 1, Banished To Outer Space


Synopsis

The Incredible Hulk #3 synopsis by John Hoffman
Rating: 4 stars
Image from The Incredible Hulk #3

Thunderbolt Ross tricks Rick Jones into thinking that the USA needs the Hulk to test a new rocket. Rick returns to the underground chamber as the Hulk breaks through the door!

The Hulk chases Rick; he’s angry but fortunately for Rick, slow. Rick reaches the rocket, Hulk follows him into the ship’s capsule. Jones exits, and Ross orders the rocket to launch, shooting the Hulk to space!

When in orbit, sunlight transforms the Hulk into Bruce Banner, and the rocket experiences a sudden rain of cosmic rays. At that moment, Rick uses a control panel to change the rocket’s course and bring it back to Earth. The rocket releases a strange discharge from it, which hits Rick through the control panel. The rocket crashes into a deserted area.

Since it’s daylight, Rick realizes Hulk had turned into Banner, and believes to have killed his friend. Rick goes to the crashing point, but it is the Hulk coming out of the rocket, in plain daytime, the first time this occurs!

Rick now fears for his life, but the cosmic rays and the discharge he received created some kind of bond between the Hulk and him. The monster is now under the complete control of Rick. However, only when Rick is awake.

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Story #2

The Origin of the Hulk!

Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Dick Ayers. Colorist: Stan Goldberg. Letterer: Art Simek.

Synopsis

Three-page story retelling the origin of the Hulk.

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Story #3

Will the Mighty Hulk be a Match for the Ringmaster

Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Dick Ayers. Colorist: Stan Goldberg. Letterer: Art Simek.

Synopsis

People visit the new circus in town. His owner, a magician with hypnotic abilities called the Ringmaster, uses his talents to put the audience in a trance while his team, the Circus of Crime, robs them.

Rick Jones is among the crowd. Despite being paralyzed, Rick Jones mentally summons the Hulk for help. The green goliath arrives quickly and fights the bandits. Jones purposely allows the villains to capture the Hulk.

Jones follows the circus to the next city. They have the Hulk chained in a cage with large animals. Jones mentally orders the Hulk to break free and attack the Ringmaster and his team. “Jade Jaws” defeats them easily.

General Thunderbolt Ross and his soldiers show up to lock the Hulk up, but he grabs Jones and flies away (?!).

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Review / Commentaries


The Incredible Hulk #3 Review by (February 15, 2010)
Comments:
After suffering a bathe of cosmic rays, the Hulk got the ability to fly (though temporarily), and could maintain his form during daytime, instead of reverting to Banner after the night was over.

When the Human Cannonball, a member of the Circus of Crime, attacks the Hulk, he wields a large mallet that is identical to Mjolnir, Thor's magic hammer. This is very interesting because Thor debuts a year later.

This is the first time Thunderbolt Ross acts like an enemy of the Hulk.


The Incredible Hulk #3 Review by (March 13, 2010)
This early Hulk moved very slowly (as Rick Jones testifies when he tricks the Hulk to follow him to the missile)

The idea for casting the Hulk into space (Planet Hulk saga), and then if he returned, humans won't be able to stop him (World War Hulk saga), might very well have come from this early issue from 1962 entitled "Banished to Outer Space". In the last panel of page 6, Ross cheers after sending the Hulk to space in a rocket saying "Well, we've done it! That's the end of the Hulk!". An officer replies "Let's hope so, sir! For if he ever returns, he'll be so filled with fury that we'll never be able to stop him!". Ross responds "Don't worry about the Hulk returning! That missile is on a flight to infinity... And it's a one-way journey!"


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



Characters

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Bruce Banner
Bruce Banner

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Hulk
Hulk

(Robert Bruce Banner)
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Thunderbolt Ross

(Thaddeus Ross)


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