The Leader orders his Humanoids to bring the Absorbatron and the Hulk to his lair, where he starts a series of tests on the green giant. Unseen, the “patient” turns into Bruce Banner, who sends S.O.S. messages using Morse code.
The Leader finds the chamber empty and fills it with gas. Banner turns into the Hulk and breaks free. Hulk follows his captor up to the Absorbatron room and destroys the device. But the villain escapes.
Meanwhile, Glenn Talbot and his soldiers arrive at the Leader’s lair. One soldier spots the Hulk and shoots him. The bullet hits its target on the head while the Hulk was in mid transformation! The soldiers look for Jade Jaws but find Banner, who is dead!
Also in this issue: Rick Jones, Thunderbolt Ross
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Story #2Oh, Wasp, Where is Thy Sting?
Writer:
Al Hartley.Penciler:
Bob Powell. Inker:
John Giunta. Colorist:
Unknown. Letterer:
Sam Rosen.
Synopsis
So…the Human Top has flown
away with Wasp as his prisoner while Giant-Man hangs helplessly from a window
frame in his penthouse lab. He rights himself and pursues but has no way to
trace where they went….
Human Top brings Wasp to his secret
lair and confesses that he wants her to serve him as faithfully as she has
served Giant-Man. He boasts of his trap: a huge excavation outside covered with
phony buildings for camouflage and a secret weapon at the bottom. She uses her
new ability to communicate with wasps to contact her steed Boopsie and have her
tell Hank where she is. Hanks catches on, reduces to normal size, enlarges
Boopsie, and rides her to the rescue, to the dismay of the neighbors. Reaching
the villain’s lair he shrinks Boopsie to normal and grows himself to his Giant-Man
height of 35 feet. He approaches the lair, the Top shoves him into the fake
town and he falls into the big pit where Wasp pushes in from the Top’s lab so
she will share her beloved’s fate. The Top has them sprayed with water and flash-frozen
into a statue, which is then covered in epoxy to make it permanent. The Top
brings the statue out with a crane—and then normal sized Hank bursts out of the
statue’s hand and fights his foe, knocking the Top into the freezer so that he
is the next one to be iced over. He hands the immobile baddie over to the
police while explaining that, once frozen, he and Wasp shrank down to insect
size and took refuge in a finger where they were kept safe. But Giant-Man vows
that no longer will the woman at his side be in constant peril, which the
Police Inspector understands to mean that Giant-Man will retire….