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Tales to Astonish #100

Feb 1968
Stan Lee, Marie Severin

Tales to Astonish #100 cover

Story Name:

Let There Be Battle


Synopsis

Tales to Astonish #100 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 4 stars
Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, watches the Hulk's battle with the Living Lightning on his computo-viewer and decides that Hulk would make the perfect ally. 

On his way to find the Hulk, Namor unwittingly upsets the plan of the Puppet Master to hijack a Navy Hydrafoil. Vowing revenge, the Puppet Master constructs a Hulk puppet and seizes control of the monster's mind, ordering him to kill the Sub-Mariner. 

Hulk smashes his way out of the mound where he was buried (last issue) and, not recognizing his only friend, knocks down Rick Jones.

Hulk locates Namor near Key West (island of the Florida Keys, the southern east tip of the USA), and attacks him. There follows a grueling slugging match on land (on the island, and then Miami), in the air, and under the sea which ends only when Hulk hesitates to kill his foe since he lacks the killer instinct. 

Sub-Mariner summons a tidal wave to overwhelm his enemy which has an unintended consequence: It also engulfs and destroys the Puppet Masters hidden lair. Freed from the villains control, Hulk reverts to the form of Bruce Banner. Namor comes seeking his adversary but finding only an ordinary man, returns to the sea.

 

Review / Commentaries


Tales to Astonish #100 Review by (November 12, 2024)

Review: What is there to say? This is one of the all-time classics.


Comments: First Tales to Astonish issue to combine the Hulk and Sub-Mariner stories into one. And it is their first fight. Namor’s previous brushes with the Puppet Master were in FANTASTIC FOUR #14 and TALES TO ASTONISH #78-80. Story parodied as “Bet There’ll Be Battle” in NOT BRAND ECHH #9, by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. Roger Brand contributed to the inks. 


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This comic is in the following collection:
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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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Marie Severin (Cover Penciler)


Characters

Listed in alphabetical order. All stories.

Betty Ross
Betty Ross

(Elizabeth Ross)
Bruce Banner
Bruce Banner

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Hulk
Hulk

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Sub-Mariner
Sub-Mariner

(Namor McKenzie)
Thunderbolt Ross
Thunderbolt Ross

(Thaddeus Ross)


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