Bruce Banner has created an indestructible robot that will allow its passenger to study atomic bomb blasts from a short distance. Thunderbolt Ross is impatiently waiting for Banner. His daughter Betty Ross tries calming him down. Banner arrives late at the Air Force base because he was trapped in his cave as the Hulk.
While double checking his robot plans, Banner realizes that he changes into Hulk (and back) during extreme moments of stress. Banner theorizes that if he avoids any strain, he won't change into the Hulk.
Thunderbolt Ross tells Banner that the robot test is scheduled for the next morning. Banner works all night to finish his creation. He hears someone in the premises and when he chases him, strain turns him into the Hulk, who leaps away into the hills.
The unknown man, a spy, knocks out a soldier watching over the lab and enters the robot to walk into the testing area.
Ross and his men learn about the attacked soldier, believe Banner did it (!), and dispatch a remote controlled tank to stop the robot. But the robot withstands the shells, and breaks the tank with a blow. The spy now dreams of selling the robot to foreign countries to make a fortune, or conquer the world with it.
Hulk sees the robot, believes Banner has created it to defeat him and attacks. But his fists prove useless against the indestructible machine.
The strain of fighting something stronger than himself (for the very first time) makes Hulk turn into Banner (!).
When soldiers find Banner, he explains Ross and Betty that someone else is inside the robot. Ross is furious. Betty tries comforting his loved one. But Banner feels horrible because he has endangered humankind a second time by creating another terrible menace which is like or worse than the Hulk.
“The Beasts of Berlin!”
4/5 Synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Writer:
Stan Lee. Pencils: Dick Ayers. Inks: Paul Reinman. Colors: ? Letters: Art Simek.
Synopsis: In an angry mood, Giant-Man
chases the members of his fan club out of his lab. Wasp runs after them to
apologize for Hank and returns to ask him what is going on. Hank tells her that
his friend ex-FBI Agent Lee Kearns has been caught spying in East Berlin and is
about to be executed and Giant-Man is determined to rescue him. Jan wants to
come along but Hank refuses, revealing to her the history of his wife Maria who
was captured and killed behind the Iron Curtain and he doesn’t want the same to
happen to Jan. So he goes to West Berlin (in costume) and, against the American
diplomats’ advice, he crosses the Berlin Wall as Ant-Man then recruits the
local ants to take him to the prison where Kearns is being held. Once there, he
has the ants sting the guard into departing then reveals himself to Kearns. Kearns
tells him that the issue was a new weapon created by the Reds that will
increase the intelligence of beasts and they are planning to create an army of
smart gorillas to use in combat. Hank and Kearns encounter one of the
intelligent apes guarding the passage. Hank defeats him by turning into
Giant-Man. They head to the lab where the scientists are busy creating more
intelligent apes. The ape guards surround Giant-Man so he becomes Ant-Man,
ducks under the apes, and turns the intelligence ray machine on the scientists
and military guys—and it turns them into roaring beasts. Ant-Man then uses his
climbing cord to tie up all of the ape guards and discovers they have lost
their intelligence, proving that the machine’s effects are only temporary. Then
as Giant-Man he wrecks the machine, which cannot be duplicated, and he and
Kearns barrel through the Wall and into the protecting hands of the US Army.
Hank goes home and tells Janet it was no big deal—but she’s seen the news
report on television….