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Tales to Astonish #79

May 1966
Stan Lee, Bill Everett

Tales to Astonish #79 cover

Story Name:

The Titan And The Torment

Synopsis

Tales to Astonish #79 synopsis by Julio Molina-Muscara
Rating: 3 stars

Hulk withstands Dr. Zaxon’s weapon, causing Dr. Zaxon to shoot himself and die. Hulk leaps away, becoming the murder suspect for Zaxon.

Combat planes follow the Hulk, who throws train rails at them.

A train affected by such had Hercules as a passenger. The demigod descends and faces the Hulk.

Both fight without a clear victor. Suddenly, the military shows up, and the Hulk leaps away to hide in the mountains.

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Quotes

Interesting passages found in this comic book.

"Hulk?? I do not understand the word..."
~ HERCULES

 

Review / Commentaries

Tales to Astonish #79 Review by (April 30, 2024)
First Tales to Astonish cover depicting just the Hulk. First time the Hulk is wrongly accussed of murder. First appearance of Hercules in a Hulk comic.

Reviews by Peter Silvestro: I told you Dr. Zaxon wouldn’t be around long but no one could have guessed he’d be killed five minutes into his first encounter with the Hulk, and by his own poorly-designed weapon at that. You’d think it would have a safety catch or something but no, ricocheting off a wall causes it to discharge at its creator. So anyway, Hulk fights a jet squadron and some railroad tracks and the latter has him go against Hercules for some vigorous sparring. Very entertaining issue, once that idiot Zaxon is out of the way.

The Subby story is quite engaging, beginning with Namor facing a band of Army guys and getting away, and ending with the hero facing a giant monster that is not as mindless as he thinks. Wait…why would Atlantean scientists create a mindless monster to protect the kingdom? Couldn’t they foresee that a mindless giant monster would constitute a dire emergency in itself? And how does this Visi-Viewer of Krang’s work? Can he see everything the comic book reader sees? Looks like it as Krang is aware of the Puppet Master and his control over Subby and is able to conceive a plot knowing how PM works. And so that’s where we leave our hero…facing a mindless monster, and the villain…who makes the monster mindful (mindful and mindless are antonyms, right?). More crazy fun next time.

Additional Comments by Peter Silvestro: Hulk story: Part two of two parts. Story takes place as Hercules is traveling to Hollywood to try for a movie career as seen in THOR #126. The idea that “the madder Hulk gets, the stronger he gets,” first showed up in issue #70. Death of Dr. Konrad Zaxon.

Subby story: Part three of four parts. Penciler Gene Colan credited as Adam Austin.

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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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Jack Kirby (Cover Penciler)
Bill Everett (Cover Inker)
Stan Goldberg (Cover Colorist)
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Layouts: Jack Kirby. Letterer: Art Simek.

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