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Appearing in "The Incredible Hulk"

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Synopsis for "The Incredible Hulk"

Trapped in the facility of the mad scientist Doctor Scarabeus, Bruce Banner transforms into the Hulk to fend off his Anti-Men. With the Hulk running rampant through the facility, Scarabeus decides to unleash one of his failed "First Ones" he calls Gograth. When Scarabeus' daughter Tisha tries to stop him he slaps her away. This angers the Hulk who goes to defend the girl when suddenly he is attacked by Gograth.

Although Gograth gets the upper hand, the Hulk manages to pulverize the creature when it starts threatening Tisha. The Hulk spirits her away from the facility. Doctor Scarabeus doesn't care that she is in the clutches as she had betrayed him to Bruce Banner.

After getting Trisha to safety, the Hulk tells her that he is going back to stop her father, and getting the aid of his own monsters to help him do it.

Appearing in "The Black Knight"

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Trapped in a ring of mystical stones, King Vortigen is trapped and forced to battle his foe, the evil Walker known as Cormac, who also has his ally Moondog as his prisoner. Weakened without his magic staff, Vortigen is not at his peak and is easily slashed across the chest. Vortigen refuses to surrender, although his boasts feel empty as he believes he is dying. He wonders what became of Merlyn's champion, the Black Knight.

At that very moment, the Knight has been scouring the forest trying to locate Moondog since he went missing. When the search comes up dry, the Black Knight lands near a lake and laments over the situation. He is also furious that he is without his enchanted weapon, the Ebony Blade and tosses the tiny Elvin blade he has been carrying since.

Back at the standing stones, Vortigen manages to learn the battle to his advantage by luring Cormac close to the stone where Moondog is tied up. When his foe lunges with his sword, the mystic dodges out of the way, causing Cormac to inadvertently slips open the ropes holding Moondog. Before Cormac can land a killing blow on Vortigen, Moondog leaps on him. When Cornac tosses the Elf aside, Vortigen manages to strike Cornac sending him into the mystical barrier he put around the circle, seemingly incinerating himself in the process.

Meanwhile, the Black Knight decides to end his ponderings and rejoin Captain Britain in Otherworld. However before he leaves the lake he is surprised when a hand suddenly pops out of the water holding up the ancient sword Excalibur!

Appearing in "Ant-Man"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #43
(originally printed as The Astonishing Ant-Man Verses the Mad Master of Time!)

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  • Unnamed postman
  • Unnamed reporter of "Woman's Gazette"
  • Modern Scientific Research Company's unnamed top manager
  • Tommy Weems (First appearance)
  • NYPD
  • Unnamed judge

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Synopsis for "Ant-Man"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #43
(originally printed as The Astonishing Ant-Man Verses the Mad Master of Time!)
Our story begins with Ant-Man rushing back to his lab. Along the way he crosses paths with a young boy delivering a telegram and is almost flattened by it. After addressing the public, Ant-Man makes his exit. The boy delivers his telegram to Professor Elias Weems. Opening the envelope, Weems finds that the telegram is from his grandson Tommy who is coming to visit him on vacation. Excited that his grandson is coming to visit Weems hopes to show him the many things he is working at at his job at Modern Scientific Research Company. However, as fate would have it, a week later, Weems is let go because company policy does not allow anybody to work for them past age sixty-five.

Angered by the fact of being fired only because of his age, Weems plans revenge against society for being so cruel and constructs a device that speeds up the aging process. Completing the device, he tests it out on a tree, a baby elephant, and a young woman before finding that it is perfect.

Calling himself the "Time Master", Weems sends a letter to the police demanding control of the entire city or else he will prematurely age the entire population. Learning of this through his spy ants, Ant-Man manages to track down and confront Weems at his home. Weems uses his aging gun on Ant-Man and attempts to trap him in a flower pot. Weems then leaves to start aging the entire city, not suspecting that Ant-Man can free himself by growing back to his normal height.

Tracking Weems down, he finds the scientist on a rooftop aging the people in the crowd gathering below him. Ant-Man rushes to stop Weems, but Weems stops himself when he realizes that his grandson Tommy is in the crowd and has been prematurely aged as well. Attempting to reverse the process, Weems fumbles and drops the device off the side of the building, but it is caught by Ant-Man's army of ants. Ant-Man then instructs somebody in the crowd to use the device to change everybody back to normal, and Weems surrenders to the police.

Pleading to the judge, Ant-Man and the owner of Modern Scientific Research Company convince any charges to be waived, and Weems is given his job back. Weems' first order of business is to show his grandson around the lab where he works.

Appearing in "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."

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Synopsis for "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."

At Ching Brother Movie Studio, Nick Fury and Annie Wong have to face against actors who work for the Sept. Seeing that they are drugged and not acting on their own free will they merely incapacitate them. Getting to the building they seek to explore they find a well-trained fighter named Ma Yung-Chen guarding the door. He too is drugged into obedience and attacks them as well. Fury underestimates his opponent but he is easily knocked out by Annie Wong.

Entering the building they are shocked to find a photo of Fury's old foe the Yellow Claw. Although Fury believes that Yellow Claw is dead, the villain speaks up and proves him wrong. The door slides open revealing that Yellow Claw has apparently survived by having his brain hooked into a computer.

After this big revelation, Yellow Claw unleashes robots that are fashioned after the Shaolin Bronze Men.

Appearing in "The Eternals"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Eternals #8
(originally printed as The City of Toads)

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Reprint of the 1st story from
Eternals #8
(originally printed as The City of Toads)
Kro attempts to rekindle his love for Thena and takes her to Lemuria, home of the Deviants. Thena and Kro are the guests of the Deviant leader Tode for the purification ritual: a combat to the death between Karkas and the Reject.

Appearing in "Night Raven"

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  • Chinatown

Synopsis for "Night Raven"

Hunting for the opium dealer named Dragonfire in the sewers, the Night Raven is ambushed by his foe. finding himself no match for his foe in close quarters, Night Raven knocks his opponent aside and climbs up a ladder to the surface above.

Emerging on the surface, Night Raven is attacked by members of the Dragon Tong. As the masked vigilante fights off his attackers, Yi Yang drives onto the scene in her car. Spotting the man she seeks to eliminate, she has Khan, her tiger, unleashed upon the vigilante.

Appearing in "What If the Hulk Had Always Had Bruce Banner's Mind? Part Five: Enter Galactus and the X-Man"

Reprint of the 1st story from
What If? #2
(originally printed as What If the Hulk Had The Brain of Bruce Banner?)

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  • Banner, Richards, and Xavier's Airship

Synopsis for "What If the Hulk Had Always Had Bruce Banner's Mind? Part Five: Enter Galactus and the X-Man"

Reprint of the 1st story from
What If? #2
(originally printed as What If the Hulk Had The Brain of Bruce Banner?)
Bruce Banner, Reed Richards and Charles Xavier constructed an improved version of Cerebro called the Psychotron which merged them physically and mentally into one being, X-Man. They were forced to use it (as it only worked once before blowing up), to defend the world from Galactus. They won the battle, at the expense of all of their super powers, and inadvertently turning Thing into a mindless monster, much like the Hulk.

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Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

  • Nick Fury believed that Yellow Claw was dead, stating that he "saw the last of him" years ago. Some points on this:
    • Yellow Claw was actually last seen in Nova #18 where he seemingly died when his ship exploded during a battle against Nova and Nick Fury. That story was published in 1978, about a year between publications, or -- more accurate -- roughly a few months earlier per the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616.
    • Claims of Yellow Claw's mind being transplanted into a computer are false, as he is shown in a fully functional body in his next appearance in Avengers #204. Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13 confirms that this the claims of his physical death were a ruse used to trick Nick Fury.

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Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

  • The reason why Fury states it's been a "few years" ago might actually be more to do with the fact that this was published in the United Kingdom, which at the time published comic books on a weekly basis. In order to catch readers up with modern Marvel continuity they often published portions of stories across various anthology publications. This led the UK staff operating off shoddy continuity, especially when it came to writing original stories based on Marvel characters. Likely this is an erroneous reference to Strange Tales #162–167 which would have been republished in the UK well before issues of Nova. What makes this even more inaccurate is that the fact that the "Yellow Claw" that battled Fury in Strange Tales Vol 1 162-167 was actually a robot built by Doctor Doom as revealed in Strange Tales Vol 1 167.

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