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Appearing in "The Black Knight"

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Synopsis for "The Black Knight"

King Arthur and the Black Knight defeat Necromon at last, and the Nethergod is believed dead...but his final act is to destroy Camelot. As Vortigen announces they must rebuild Camelot anew, the Knight prepares to depart for new adventures back on Earth.

Appearing in "Incredible Hulk"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Incredible Hulk #246
(originally printed as The Hero and the Hulk!)

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Synopsis for "Incredible Hulk"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Incredible Hulk #246
(originally printed as The Hero and the Hulk!)

The Hulk has come to Gamma Base to recover the body of Jarella leading to a battle with Glenn Talbot in a suit of Mandroid armor. With Talbot at his mercy, the Hulk was willing to slay his frequent antagonist when he was stopped by Captain Marvel. Marvel offered to help the Hulk recover Jarella and bring her body back to her world. When the Hulk refuses to stop harming Talbot, the Captain is forced to attack the Hulk. Furious, thE hulk tosses the incapacitated Glenn Talbot at Mar-Vell, the collision causes part of the roof to collapse on them. With the immediate threats out of sight, the Hulk begins his search of Gamma Base to find Jarella's body.

When Captain Marvel recovers, he digs himself and Talbot out of the rubble and frees the Colonel from the damaged Mandroid armor. With soldiers arriving on the scene, Captain Marvel tells Talbot that he should leave the Hulk to recover Jarella and prevent further destruction. Glenn pretends to agree, but Captain Marvel's Cosmic Consciousness allows him to tell that Talbot is lying. Mar-Vell decides to create a deception of his own, by pretending to leave. No sooner is the Kree warrior seemingly gone does Talbot order his men to gear up as they are going to hunt down the Hulk and destroy him. Elsewhere in the facility, the Hulk eventually finds the cryogenic storage and forces his way inside. There he finds the suspension chamber where Jarella has been kept since she died. When Captain Marvel eventually catches up with the Hulk he is shocked to see the moment where sorrowful Hulk cradling the body of his lost lover.

Meanwhile, Doc Samson has brought General Ross to a secluded cabin in the Colorado Rockies to try and cure him after his mental breakdown. He tries to get Ross to play chess, but when a radio report about the Hulk's recent attack plays, Thaddeus gets upset and pictures a chess piece as looking like the Hulk. Panicking he tosses it across the room. Doc Samson fears that all the work on Ross could have been undone by a single radio report.

Back at Gamma Base, the Hulk begins to cry at the sight of Jarella. He recalls his first trip to her microworld of K'ai, the time that Jarella came to Earth, his last trip to K'ai where he battled Psyklop, and lastly her death at the hands of the Crypto-Man. Seeing the brute in sorrow and grief comes as a shock to the Hulk. He reaches out to offer his aid, but the Hulk lashes out knocking Mar-Vell aside with a powerful blow. When the Hulk tries to battle Captain Marvel, the Kree warrior uses his Cosmic Consciousness to convince the sorrowful monster that he does indeed plan on helping the Hulk.

As Captain Marvel leads the Hulk to the sub-molecular shrinking device, Glenn Talbot is gearing up his soldiers including a Beta-Borer device, a space exploration device that Talbot had adapted into a weapon. Using his Cosmic Consciousness, Captain Marvel is able to determine how to operate the machine as well as how to locate K'ai. As the Hulk and the body of Jarella are shrunk down in size, Talbot and his men come bursting into the room. A blast from the Beta-Borer destroys the device, seemingly trapping the Hulk somewhere in the Microverse.

Appearing in "The Defenders"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Defenders #53
(originally printed as The Power Principle Part One: The Prince and the Presence!)

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Synopsis for "The Defenders"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Defenders #53
(originally printed as The Power Principle Part One: The Prince and the Presence!)

Traveling to Atlantis, the Defenders are briefed by Lord Vashti as to the specifics of the device which is polluting Atlantis with radiation. As the Defenders travel to the location, inside the nuclear installment, The Presence and Red Guardian are exposing themselves to controlled radiation to turn themselves into pure nuclear beings.

While in New York, Valkyrie searches for the mysterious Lunatik, and has a brief battle with the vigilante, however Lunatik manages to escape. Back on the Russian coast, the Presence manages to set off a strong enough nuclear explosion to change him into a purely nuclear being.

Appearing in "Silver Surfer"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Silver Surfer #7
(originally printed as The Heir of Frankenstein!)

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  • Borgo (First appearance) (Apparent death)

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Synopsis for "Silver Surfer"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Silver Surfer #7
(originally printed as The Heir of Frankenstein!)

Brief Summary:
The Silver Surfer rescues Ludwig von Frankenstein from an angry village mob. Frankenstein tricks the Surfer into entering his experimental machine so that he can clone him and his powers. He creates a Frankenstein Surfer that attacks the Silver Surfer and the nearby villagers. The Surfer confronts his dangerous double. He leads him to space and reabsorbs his powers back into himself, causing the clone to vanish.

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Ludwig von Frankenstein, the modern descendant of Victor von Frankenstein, and his hunchbacked assistant Borgo attempt to create life using modern scientific technology. But the local villagers have had their fill of the Frankenstein legacy and storm the castle. Frankenstein decides to activate his latest project, Experiment X. But in order to do so, he needs a powerful living host – one that is strong enough to survive the process.

The Silver Surfer, flying through the Alps, sees the villagers storming the castle and believing them to be aggressors, repels them with his cosmic blasts. Count Frankenstein invites him into his castle and pretends to befriend him. The Silver Surfer is reluctant to trust him at first, but agrees to help him. Frankenstein tricks him into becoming the host for Experiment X. Trapping the Surfer and strapping him to a table, he begins to siphon the power cosmic from him and redirect it into a lifeless clay model. Imbued with the power of the Silver Surfer, the creation comes to life, assumes the Surfer's form, and attacks him. Frankenstein sends the false Surfer into the village to avenge himself against them.

Frankenstein notices that the Silver Surfer is still alive and decides to finish him off with another of his weapons. To his surprise, the Surfer stands unharmed and demands to know what are his plans for the clone. Borgo reveals to him that Frankenstein plans to use the duplicate to bring fear to the world. The Silver Surfer departs to stop his evil doppelganger.

The two Surfers confront each other. Their fight rages throughout the village and eventually the Silver Surfer carries the battle out into Earth’s atmosphere to avoid harming others. Both combatants are evenly matched, but the Surfer's experience gives him an advantage.

Back in the Alps, the diminutive Borgo decides that he has taken Count Frankenstein's abuse long enough. He tackles Frankenstein, as he is firing down on the villagers, and both of them topple out of the castle window where they fall to their deaths.

Back in the sky, the duplicate decides to bring the battle back to the city. The Silver Surfer, looking to end the violence once and for all, grabs a hold of the false Surfer and begins to drain him of his cosmic energy. Before long, there is nothing left of clone and he disappears into thin air. The Silver Surfer is once again whole.

Appearing in "Hulk's Greatest Battles"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Team-Up #18
(originally printed as Where Bursts the Bomb!)

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Synopsis for "Hulk's Greatest Battles"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Team-Up #18
(originally printed as Where Bursts the Bomb!)

Following the dissolution of the Fantastic Four, the Human Torch is spending some time visiting his old college friend Wyatt Wingfoot. While they travel along the Catskills, they spot a fuel truck that has crashed. While Wyatt sweeps the drivers to safety, the Torch uses his powers to envelope the burning tanker in a flame barrier to lessen the force of the resulting explosion. Afterward, Johnny admits how things don't feel right without Ben or Reed around. Suddenly, a device on Wyatt's sky-cycle starts going off alerting Johnny that one of the Fantastic Four's most powerful foes is active once again.

Meanwhile, at an old cottage home, Doctor Paxton Pentecost is laboring to resurrect a powerful being that has been in his possession for some time. After blasting a massive cylinder with energy, the being inside suddenly breaks free. It is Blastaar, a warlord from the Negative Zone. When Blastaar threatens to destroy Pentecost, he discovers that the scientist has implanted an obedience device in his brain that causes him pain until Blastaar surrenders. Paxton explains that he learned about Blastaar from his first battle with the Fantastic Four and recovered his seeming demise at the hands of the X-Men. Blastaar demands to know why he was revived. Paxton explains that he invented an autonomous factory called FAUST that was stolen from him by his financial backer Ferguson Blaine. He now wants Blastaar to destroy his creation before Blaine can profit from it. Blastaar accepts the challenge, using his blasts to destroy a scale model of the factory. Elsewhere, the Hulk lands on a nearby construction site. Panicked by his arrival, one of the construction workers attempts to strike him with a wrecking ball. This barely phases the Hulk and he begins going on a rampage, trashing the construction equipment along the way. Suddenly, the Hulk feels a stabbing pain in his head. Furious, he leaps off trying to find the source, intending to smash it once he has the chance.

At that moment, Blastaar is attacking the FAUST facility, when he is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of the Human Torch and Wyatt Wingfoot. The Torch ingulfs Blastaar with a flame blast, but the creature shrugs it off and strikes the Torch with a blast that sends him flying. As fate would have it, Johnny lands into the open hands of the Hulk. He tries to convince the gamma-spawned monster to help, but the Hulk is uninterested until the painful buzzing in his head begins again. Meanwhile, Ferguson Blaine arrives on the scene with the authorities. He tries to talk sense into Paxton, but this falls on deaf ears. Instead, Pentecost has Blastaar attack the officers who have arrived on the scene. However, before he can cause any serious harm, the Hulk and the Human Torch arrive. While the Hulk battles Blastaar, Paxton is prevented from shooting his former colleague by the Human Torch. Unable to stop Blastaar, they stand by and watch in awe as the Hulk crumples the Adamantium walls of FAUST around Blastaar, encasing him in a shell of the nearly indestructible metal and then tosses him out to sea.

With the battle over, the Hulk finds the pain in his mind is gone and leaps away. When Blaine thanks the Human Torch for his help. The Torch points out that his greed cost a good scientist his mind.

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