Exhausted after the Hulk's fight with Boomerang, Bruce Banner is discovered by the Stranger, an alien superbeing (last seen in X-Men #18), who is planning to cleanse the Earth of its evil by exterminating humanity. He has chosen the Hulk to be his agent of destruction.
The Stranger uses one of his machines to increase his own power, enabling him to force the Hulk to obey him. His will enslaved by the alien master, Hulk sets out on an insane rampage.
Betty Ross,
Thunderbolt Ross, Glenn Talbot
“The Prince and
the Power!” 3.5/5
Writer: Stan Lee. Pencils: Bill Everett. Inks: Bill Everett. Colors: ? Letters:
Art Simek.
Synopsis:
Attuma directs the captured alien Servo-Robot to destroy Prince Namor, the
Sub-Mariner, aiming it at the city of Atlantis. The monster smashes down the
gates and lays waste the city with its disintegrator eye-beams, heat and
electrical powers. The palace guards fire on it with their greatest weapons but
to no effect. Namor orders Lord Vashti to evacuate the city, taking Lady Dorma
with him, while Namor faces the menace alone. Namor swoops around the
Servo-Robot, dodging the eye-beams but finding the monster’s back white-hot.
Namor calls a shiver of sharks but the robot just swats them away. Lady Dorma
checks in with Namor and he sends her to retrieve a Projecto-Camera from the
palace. Namor orders a huge whale to engulf the robot in its mouth but the
robot fights his way out. Dorma delivers the camera. Namor orders a tangle of
octopuses to enwrap the robot but it repels them with electric shocks. He then
struggles against the monster’s claw until a giant transparent container
descends into the ocean and seals the robot in place, then the robot is hauled
up into an alien spaceship. Namor, having deduced that the creature could not
have originated on Earth, used the Projecto-Camera to send a photo of the
creature into space, figuring the owners would come to retrieve it. And it
worked! Attuma and his men flee back to their world….
Bruce Banner