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Tales to Astonish #90

Apr 1967
Stan Lee, Gil Kane

Tales to Astonish #90 cover

Story Name:

The Abomination!


Synopsis

Tales to Astonish #90 synopsis by Julio Molina-Muscara
Rating: 4.5 stars

Controlled by the Stranger, Hulk rampages through populations. When he arrives at Thunderbolt Ross base, he transforms into Bruce Banner and breaks free from the alien’s control.

Horrified by the damage he did as the Hulk, Banner kills himself with a gamma rays overdose! But before he can do it, soldiers spot him and take him prisoner.

A spy called Emil Blonsky witnessed it all and uses the gamma equipment onto himself. The radiation turns him into a powerful green monster like the Hulk, the one to be named Abomination.

When Banner sees the new gamma-spawned being, he turns into the Hulk and fights him. But the Abomination proves to be stronger than the Hulk, and defeats him!

Finally, the Abomination kidnaps Betty Ross and leaps away.

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Review / Commentaries


Tales to Astonish #90 Review by (July 30, 2024)
First time the Hulk is KOed by an opponent.

Review and Additinal Comments by Peter Silvestro

Review: And now we meet…the Abomination! One of Hulk’s all-time greatest enemies makes his debut by punching Hulk’s lights out! He’s stronger than Hulk and smarter than Hulk and will contribute to many more years of exciting Gamma-action! And we won’t ask why the Stranger, one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe, never considered that Hulk changing back to Banner would break the hypnotic spell—or that his hypnotic spell could so easily be broken. And when Banner turns back to Hulk, the spell does not return. Stranger must be having a lazy day if he didn’t see any of this coming. Meanwhile, for something that no one could see coming, it’s Bruce’s suicidal mood when he realizes what the Stranger was trying to make him do; I assume he has some reason for believing that an extra large dose of Gamma would kill him instead of making him the Super-Hulk but I’m no scientist. Wait and see….

As for Subby, he is caught up in an unusual method of choosing leaders, which seems to select rulers by heredity (it is called a monarchy, after all), but also holding elections, while candidates seem to be selected by combat. I’m sure they have it all written down somewhere and perhaps even have regularly scheduled elections. Anyway, Byrrah seems like a cool bad guy, a shady politician and schemer, who has a blond handlebar mustache and wears a helmet bearing an Iron Cross. And it seems like over half of the Subby story is word balloons full of chatter so maybe politics is the same all over.

Comments: Hulk story: Part two of three parts. First appearance/origin of the Abomination. Blonsky mentions the Bamboo Curtain, a nickname for Red China, parallelling the Iron Curtain for the Soviet Union and its allies.

Subby story: Part one of two parts. The cover picture of Byrrah was used for his Marvel Value Stamp. Byrrah made his first appearance in SUB-MARINER COMICS #35 in 1954; this is his first appearance in the Silver Age. Letterer Morrie Kuramoto credited as Sherigail.

The letters page includes one by future Marvel writer Bill Mantlo



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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

Gil Kane
Gil Kane
Unknown
Jack Kirby (Cover Penciler)
Vince Colletta (Cover Inker)
Stan Goldberg (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: Sam Rosen.



Characters

All stories. Listed in alphabetical order.

Abomination
Abomination

(Emil Blonsky)
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)
Plus: Byrrah.

Thor

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