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Tales to Astonish #72

Oct 1965
Stan Lee, Mike Esposito

Tales to Astonish #72 cover

Story Name:

Within The Monster Dwells A Man!


Synopsis

Tales to Astonish #72 synopsis by Julio Molina-Muscara
Rating: 3 stars

Soldiers attack the cave lab, destroying Banner’s machines. Cornered, Hulk (still with Banner’s intellect) accepts the Leader‘s offer to help him escape.

Secretly, Hulk expects to find gamma machines in the Leader’s lab he could use to prevent his transformation, and avoid death (since the bullet is still in his head).

Somehow, the Leader tele transports the Hulk to a secret lair in Rome and knocks him out with a powerful sleeping gas. When Hulk awakes, he battles a group of Humanoids.

Meanwhile, Thunderbolt Ross discovers the Hulk cave had machines built by Banner, and locks Rick Jones for questioning.

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Review / Commentaries


Tales to Astonish #72 Review by (February 6, 2024)

Review: And then Hulk visits Italy! Paisano! And the Leader has his own special form of teleportation he calls Matterportation! He could learn a thing or two about branding! And Banner-brained Hulk sound increasingly like a big dumb tough guy. The Big Revelation is that Humanoids hatch from eggs! And Glenn Talbot continues his monomania that everyone he can’t understand must be a traitor! Don’t they give psychological screening to anyone who wants to join the Army? Meanwhile, having practiced beating up pink humanoids for several issues, Hulk now gets to fight dark green humanoids!

Namor battles the Seaweed Man and that clause right there tells you how wonderful the 1960s Marvel Comics were. We also have a fish with a diamond in its mouth which the young Gene Colan cannot make look anything but silly. Dorma and Krang have a larger role in this installment than earlier and she gets to endure indignities like Namor, here being packed in a plastic bag and dropped through a hole in a floor. And for those who diss Aquaman for talking to fish, herein Namor picks up the local news from some odd fish so even with his prickly attitude he still can’t always show himself superior to his orange-shirted DC counterpart.

Comments: Hulk story: Artist Mike Esposito credited as Mickey DeMeo.

Subby story: Part three of seven parts. Seaweed Man’s next and final appearance is in ROM #34-35. First appearance of Zantor, whose only subsequent appearance is in INCREDIBLE HULK AND SUB-MARINER ANNUAL #1 in 1998. First appearance of the Faceless Ones. Penciler Gene Colan credited as Adam Austin.  




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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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Mike Esposito
Mike Esposito
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Gene Colan (Cover Penciler)
Vince Colletta (Cover Inker)
Stan Goldberg (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Layouts: Jack Kirby. Letterer: Sam Rosen.

Characters

Listed in alphabetical order. All stories.

Hulk
Hulk

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Sub-Mariner
Sub-Mariner

(Namor McKenzie)
Thunderbolt Ross
Thunderbolt Ross

(Thaddeus Ross)


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