Incredible Hulk #250: Review

Aug 1980

Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema

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Story Name:

Hulk Vs. The Silver Surfer!

Synopsis

Incredible Hulk #250 Synopsis by Julio Molina-Muscara

Hulk appears on a quiet farm and turns into Bruce Banner. Suddenly, a bull runs towards a little girl. Banner saves the kid but receives the impact. The little girl’s mother welcomes him to her home and they become friends. They felt something special about each other.

After fighting with illegal hunters in the Artic, the Silver Surfer shows up looking for Banner. He turns into the Hulk and tries to smash the Surfer. But the former Galactus herald absorbs the gamma energy from the Hulk’s body, turning him back into his human self (!). Deprived of gamma energy, cured from his curse, the grateful scientist hears the alien’s wish: increase his power with gamma rays so he could break Galactus’s barrier which prevents the Surfer from exiting Earth.

Unfortunately, the experiment fails, Bruce receives gamma rays and becomes the Hulk once again. The Surfer takes him to space, absorbs the giant’s gamma energy again and finally breaks free from the barrier.

But Banner falls free to Earth. The cosmic traveler returns to catch Banner, bathes him with gamma energy to save his life and departs, once again a prisoner on the blue planet.

Also in this story: Soviet Super Soldiers, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Collective-Man, Sabra, Arabian Knight, Captain Britain, Fantastic Four.