Incredible Hulk #118

Aug 1969

Stan Lee, Herb Trimpe

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Story Name:

A Clash of Titans

Synopsis

Incredible Hulk #118 synopsis by Richie Wevill

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After his fight against the Leader, a woman from Atlantis named Lady Dorma finds Bruce Banner floating on the sea, unconscious. She takes pity on Bruce and brings him below the sea to Atlantis in order to heal him. She believes that if Bruce is of any importance on the surface world (land), healing him may put them in her debt, thus making peace between the two worlds.

After returning to her palace underneath the sea, her guards help Bruce into her chamber. Dorma reveals she is in love with the prince of Atlantis, the Sub-Mariner (AKA Namor). However, little does she know that as she helps Banner, she is being watched by Mistress Fara, also in love with the Sub-Mariner. Jealous of Dorma, she falsely states to the Sub-Mariner (who loathes the surface dwellers, humans) that the woman he loves is plotting against him along with a human.

Sub-Mariner believes Fara’s words, and proceeds to Dorma’s chamber where he demands to see the human she is with. Lady Dorma tries to explain, but Namor keeps interrupting her.

Meanwhile, Bruce wakes up confused and, believing he is in danger, turns into the Hulk. After finding the Sub-Mariner, the fight between the two begins.

Hulk starts it off by clapping his powerful hands underwater, creating a shockwave which knocks Dorma’s house down, knocking her out. Namor tries to hit the Hulk with a piece of the fallen down house. But the Hulk simply jumps through it with no damage befalling him. Hulk gets too confident until Namor turns the fight around by trapping the Hulk in a whirlpool. However, the Hulk breaks out of the whirlpool and the two are both grappling with each other.

Meanwhile, Fara watches the battle and gets the idea of killing Dorma while she lies unconscious. Just as Namor notices Fara is about to kill Dorma, the Hulk punches him right into a standing wall amongst the wreckage of Dorma’s house. The wall falls right onto Dorma and Fara! Namor swims down and removes the wreckage from above Dorma. It turns out Fara took the impact, who was standing just above Dorma when the wall fell.

Hulk, in the meantime, has leaped right at the Sub-Mariner from a distance. As Namor has just promised Dorma that the Hulk will pay, Dorma spots the Hulk coming and warns Namor. Namor swims at the Hulk and they collide with the force to create humongous waves. The force hurls Namor through the sea. The sea also throws the Hulk way out and he lands on a nearby land. In case the Hulk returns to Atlantis, the Sub-Mariner recovers and searches for him. However, all the prince of Atlantis finds is an unconscious Bruce Banner. Slowly, Namor turns and walks back into the sea.