As the High Evolutionary is experimenting on Bruce Banner, the rebellious New Men break into the lab and attack their creator. Bruce transforms into the Hulk and battles the animal men.
Mortally wounded, the High Evolutionary turns his miraculous ray upon himself and evolves himself into an advanced energy being. Seeing the error of interfering with Nature's plan, he restores the New Men to their original animal forms and, at the Hulk's request, sends him back to Earth.
The High Evolutionary merges with the Universal Mind.“Somewhere
Stands…Skull Island!” 4/5
Writer: Raymond Marais. Pencils: Bill Everett. Inks: Vince Colletta. Colors: ?
Letters: Art Simek.
Synopsis:
Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, sits on his throne in Atlantis and considers
declaring war on the surface world. Lady Dorma pleads with him and he again
rebukes her. Lord Vashti then suggests they attack and defeat the Plunderer and
see how things go after that. Namor agrees to that….
Namor swims to
Antarctica where he is attacked by polar serpents and defeats them. He checks
out the ruins of the original Atlantis and visits his mother’s grave before
entering the underwater cavern that leads to the Savage Land. He locates Skull
Island, lair of the Plunderer, which the baddie had mentioned last issue. But
Namor is attacked by a giant sea monster and the scuffle brings him to the
attention of the Plunderer. Namor fights the monster and tricks it into
plunging its head into the ocean bottom and becoming stuck. Meanwhile, Dorma
has followed Namor so that when the villain fires his electron blaster at
Namor, Dorma is also hit. Namor surprises Plunderer by leaping unharmed out of
the water and the two adversaries grapple on the beach. When Plunderer reveals
that Dorma is injured, Namor punches his lights out then sees to his lady love.
Finding her (relatively) unharmed, he orders her to go home. Returning to the
island, Plunderer blasts him with the new and improved Vibra-Ray, knocking him
out….
Back in
Atlantis, Dorma and Vashti watch Namor via the Tracio-Scope and are surprised
to find him apparently free and talking to the Plunderer; Dorma wonders if that
means the two are teaming up against the surface world? What she can’t see is
Namor held prisoner by the villain’s energy bands….