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Appearing in "Incredible Hulk"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Incredible Hulk Annual #5
(originally printed as And Six Shall Crush the Hulk!)

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  • Artificial replicas of:
    • Blip Duplicate (First appearance; dies)
    • Diablo Duplicate (First appearance; dies)
    • Goom Duplicate (First appearance; dies)
    • Groot Duplicate (First appearance; dies)
    • Taboo Duplicate (First appearance; dies)
  • Xemnu (Apparent death)

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Synopsis for "Incredible Hulk"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Incredible Hulk Annual #5
(originally printed as And Six Shall Crush the Hulk!)

The living titan known as Xemnu operates from within a secret laboratory beneath a lake in Colorado. Sensing the presence of the incredible Hulk nearby, he creates simulacrums of five powerful beings that once threatened the Earth and sends them to defeat the Hulk.

The Hulk, meanwhile, while wandering through the forests accidentally trespasses onto a U.S. Army proving ground. He fights through a squadron of soldiers before coming face to face with the first of Xemnu's minions - Diablo! Hulk struggles with Diablo, but manages to disperse his smoke-like form with one of his signature power-claps. The battle however, leaves the Hulk physically drained.

The next creature the Hulk fights is the muck-monster, Taboo. The two fight in a deep riverbed. The Hulk anchors himself to the silt, then creates a massive whirlpool that pulls Taboo down until his body discorporates. Once again, the Hulk is uncharacteristically fatigued from the fight.

Immediately following this debacle, the Hulk encounters Groot - the Monster of Planet X. Groot tries to kill the Hulk by firing wooden needles from his fingertips, but the Hulk pulverizes him with two broken chunks of rock.

Following this, he then battle Goom. Goom uses his molecular condensor beams to shrink the Hulk in size, but the Hulk still manages to defeat him. He batters him into a mountainside causing a rock slide that buries his opponent. When the battle concludes, the Hulk returns to his normal size.

After this the Hulk comes face to face with the electrical being known as Blip (whom the Hulk confuses with Zzzax). Blip electrocutes the Hulk with over a million megavolts of electricity, but the Hulk shorts Blip out by heaving him into a set of power lines.

Having witnessed the failure of all of his agents, Xemnu finally decides to confront the Hulk personally. He abducts him and brings him to his underwater base. He reveals to him that his artificial monsters were designed to rob the Hulk of his strength. The Hulk breaks free and charges at Xemnu. Xemnu gets inside an escape bubble and leaves the base. The Hulk grabs a hold of the strange vessel and rides it to the surface of the lake. The two titans continue fighting one another atop a dam. Their blows cause the dam to collapse and they are both swept away in a flooding rush of water. When the Hulk gathers his senses, he discovers that Xemnu is gone. Irritated beyond measure, the Hulk leaps away, hoping to find some peace.

Appearing in "Black Knight"

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  • Mandrac 
  • Children of Mandrac  (First appearance)
    • Nightshade  (First appearance)
    • Wolfsbane  (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "Black Knight"

The Black Knight and his Elven allies have ventured into Otherworld to try and prevent the Neithergod Mandrac from stealing away the body of Captain Britain. Sensing the heroes approach, Mandrac dispatches his children, who taken on the form of ravens to attack his pursuers. When Moondog strikes one of the ravens with an arrow, he changes into a human form. The second one also reverts to human form and challenges the Black Knight to a duel.

As the two clash, Mandrac challenges Merlyn to a duel. The wizard makes his presence seen and accepts the challenge. Merlyn's appearance also boosts the Black Knight's strength, assisting him in his battle.

Appearing in "Ant-Man"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #45
(originally printed as The Terrible Traps of Egghead!)

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  • U.S. Government Atomic Energy Board (Only in recap)
  • NYPD (Only in recap)
  • Unnamed gangsters (Only in recap)
  • Achilles (Mentioned)
  • Vernon Van Dyne (Referenced) (Deceased)
  • Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
  • Croesus (Mentioned)
  • Anton Myers (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "Ant-Man"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #45
(originally printed as The Terrible Traps of Egghead!)

Recapping Egghead's first battle with Ant-Man (In Tales to Astonish Vol 1 38), we find that Egghead is still living in the Bowery flophouse where he ended up after his first defeat. There he is stirred out of his rantings when he overhears some crooks talking about Ant-Man and the Wasp. He approaches them asking them who the Wasp is, and after being informed on his old foe's activities, Egghead talks the two thugs into helping him devise a plot to defeat Ant-Man, using his partner the Wasp as bait.

Egghead builds a device that scrambles the messages that Ant-Man's ants transmit and then develops the disguise of Professor Carl Striker, a Zoologist that specializes in insects and begins giving lectures to rouse the interest of Ant-Man and the Wasp. Later, after hearing about a local diamond cutter being given the Middleton diamond to turn into a pendant for Princess Elisabeth, Egghead formulates his plan. Planning a wasp exhibit at the local zoo for the next day, Egghead has the thieves steal the pendant (using his device to scramble the ant's impulses so that Ant-Man doesn't learn of the theft until later).

The next day, Egghead stashes the pendant in the wasp nest he has on display in the hopes that the Wasp -- intrigued by the exhibit -- will visit the zoo and hopefully discover the pendant and attempt to get it back. Doing so by herself (because she wants to show Hank that she is a woman, "A woman in love!"), the Wasp is easily kidnapped. As per Egghead's plans she sends out a distress to Ant-Man who comes to her rescue.

Lured into Egghead's trap, Ant-Man battles a lizard, an anteater and Egghead's hired thugs, and manages to free the Wasp and the two of them defeat the crooks. However, during the battle Egghead manages to escape to plot his revenge anew.

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

Reprint of the 1st story from
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #7
(originally printed as Hours of Madness, Day of Death)

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  • Unidentified Enemy Agents
    • Unnamed S.H.I.E.L.D. Traitor (First appearance; dies)
    • Numerous unnamed agents

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

Reprint of the 1st story from
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #7
(originally printed as Hours of Madness, Day of Death)

While investigating an unnamed foreign embassy somewhere in New York, Fury is ambushed and injected with a drug that will cause madness, hallucinations and eventually death. Fury tries to get to S.H.I.E.L.D. but due to his heightened paranoia and occasional visions of past enemies no one on the street will help or even listen to him, believing him to be just another drug user. Finally a young woman who calls herself Sister Angela takes him in and, as the one person in the city who believes his story, drives him to the S.H.I.E.L.D. rendezvous point where S.H.I.E.L.D. medics have already whipped up an antidote.

Appearing in "The Eternals"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Eternals #10
(originally printed as Mother!)

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Synopsis for "The Eternals"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Eternals #10
(originally printed as Mother!)

Eson ravages Lemuria and leaves as mysteriously as he appeared. Zuras probes the Celestials' mother ship and learns of their 50-year judgment plan. Thena abandons Kro and leaves Lemuria with Karkas and Reject.

Appearing in "What If Rick Jones Became the Hulk? Part Four"

Reprint of the 1st story from
What If? #12
(originally printed as What If Rick Jones Had Become the Hulk?)

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  • Rick's car
  • Army Jeeps

Synopsis for "What If Rick Jones Became the Hulk? Part Four"

Reprint of the 1st story from
What If? #12
(originally printed as What If Rick Jones Had Become the Hulk?)

Rick pushes Bruce Banner into the ditch first, causing his transformation into the Hulk. While Banner dedicates his life to curing the boy, Rick goes on to join the Avengers, become Cap's second Bucky, and swap atoms with Captain Marvel. Eventually, Banner manages to separate Rick from the Hulk while they're in the middle of a battle with Annihilus in the Negative Zone. Rick is rescued, and Hulk beats Annihilus into submission, becoming the new respected ruler of the Zone, admired and loved by the residents there.

Rick and Captain Marvel are also separated, causing Mar-Vell to live freely without having to return to the Negative Zone.

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Black Knight

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