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Incredible Hulk #4

Nov 1962
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

Incredible Hulk #4 cover

Story Name:

The Monster And The Machine!


Synopsis

Incredible Hulk #4 synopsis by Julio Molina-Muscara
Rating: 3.5 stars
Image from Incredible Hulk #4

Betty Ross is worried about Bruce Banner and asks her father, General Thunderbolt Ross (who is testing the iceberg missile he intends using to capture the Hulk) to look for the scientist or Rick Jones. Betty believes Jones knows the Hulk’s secret. Ross hears his daughter and commands his men to find Jones immediately.

The US Forces find Jones, but the Hulk escapes flying away (?!)

Soon after, Hulk saves a school bus from hitting a train. Then, he visits a movie set where he scares everyone away. Finally, he eats an entire pot of food. Men approach him with nets and rifles, but Hulk uses his thunderclap (for the first time) to knock them out, and again, flies away.

Jones, kept by the Army, mentally summons the Hulk to his rescue. Hulk flies by, grabs Rick, and takes him to the cave lab.

Hulk has not turned into Bruce Banner since he fell from the sky in a rocket (last issue). So Jones successfully uses a gamma ray machine to revert Hulk into Banner.

Banner adjusts the gamma device to trigger his transformations artificially. As a side effect, Banner becomes in control of the Hulk’s form!

With Banner’s intelligence, Hulk saves a group of kids from a burning cabin. But the locals get scared and shoot him. Hulk grabs Jones and leaves.

In the cave lab, Hulk uses radiation to trigger the transformation. Exhausted, Banner lays to rest, realizing how hard it is to control a “raging goliath.”

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Story #2

The Gladiator From Outer Space!

Writer: Stan Lee. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Dick Ayers

Synopsis

A threat from space called Mongu shows up on TV offering to fight against Earth’s best fighter. Bruce Banner uses his gamma ray machine to turn himself into the Hulk and go after the alien.

Note: Banner struggles to fully control the Hulk in this state, with the Hulk’s personality asserting some control.

Hulk arrives at the battle spot and discovers it’s a trap from the Soviet army, commanded by Boris Monguski. The Reds want to study the Hulk and create an army of them to conquer the world.

Hulk defeats the Soviets, who escape. When Hulk leaves, US soldiers arrive and blame the Hulk for the false threat.

Meanwhile, Betty Ross thinks about Bruce Banner, secretly in love with the scientist.

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Review / Commentaries


Incredible Hulk #4 Review by (February 15, 2010)
Comments: First timers: (a) A gamma ray machine is used to cause the Banner/Hulk metamorphosis; (b) Hulk leaps in an impressive fashion; (c) uses his trademark thunderclap while fighting.


Incredible Hulk #4 Review by (March 15, 2010)

Comments:
Hulk can fly in the first story, but he can no longer in the second. Although there is no explanation why this happens, losing his ability to fly was most likely because of the doses of gamma radiation he applied to himself to trigger his transformations.


Comments: Comic / Movie parallelisms. In The Gladiator from Outer Space story, the Army attacks Hulk with sonic waves and he throws metal debris to an upcoming helicopter. Such is very similar to what happened during the fight sequence at the University campus in The Incredible Hulk movie from 2008.


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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
Dick Ayers
Stan Goldberg
Jack Kirby (Cover Penciler)
Dick Ayers (Cover Inker)
Stan Goldberg (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: Jon D'Agostino.
Editor: Stan Lee.

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)
Mongu
Mongu

(Robot)
Thunderbolt Ross
Thunderbolt Ross

(Thaddeus Ross)


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