Incredible Hulk Vol 1 147

A robot duplicate of General Ross under the control of the Leader prepares a Mark 12-Sonic Depressor to use against the Hulk before President Nixon and Spiro Agnew. When an airplane carrying the Hulk arrives at the airport, Ross has the device turned on to a level that will eventually kill the Hulk. Horrified by this outcome, Betty Ross goes to confront her father and catches the impostor talking to its master, the Leader. The Ross robot then strikes Betty, but then the Hulk smashes through the wall and destroys the Ross robot. Confused by everything, the Hulk is rallied by Doc Samson to fight an army of the Leader's Humanoids.

The Humanoids pile on each other and merge into a giant Composite Humanoid that attempts to bombard the Hulk with a lethal blast of gamma rays. Initially weakened, the Hulk is about to be destroyed when Doc Samson gets between the blast and redirects it back at the Composite Humanoid, causing feedback that makes the Leader's control device blow up in his face, knocking him out.

With the Leader defeated, Ross and Talbot manage to escape from their imprisonment just before the Leader's secret base explodes. While this is happening, the Hulk both battles and defeats the Composite Humanoid, causing it to split apart into its various components. With the Leader's plot foiled, everyone notices that Doc Samson has reverted back to his human form, having lost his gamma-spawned super-powers as a result of the gamma rays that he was exposed to. Confused by everything, the Hulk leaps away in frustration.

Appearing in "Heaven Is a Very Small Place!"

Featured Characters:

Hulk (Bruce Banner) ⏵

Other Characters:

Seismologists
- Bob
Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)

Races and Species:

Humans

Realities:

Earth-616

Locations:

Earth
- North America
  - United States of America
    - The desert near Adobe Flats, New Mexico
      - Mirage town

Synopsis for "Heaven Is a Very Small Place!"

The Hulk lands in the desert and witnesses the formation of a small town, the result of an elaborate mirage. To his surprise, the people in the town seem warm and friendly; however, in reality, they cannot see the Hulk and the Hulk confuses their neighborly gestures as being directed at him. The Hulk wanders around the town and realizes that everything passes through him as if he were a ghost.

Confused, the Hulk finds a little girl in a wheelchair, who can apparently see and talk to him. Calling him a friend, she tells him that they will talk forever. But just as suddenly as the Hulk meets this girl, she and the mirage world around him suddenly vanish.

Alarmed at the sudden abandonment, the Hulk screams for the town to come back, but to no avail. After a moment of sorrow, the Hulk angrily strikes the ground, causing an earthquake large enough to register at a seismology center.

Solicit Synopsis

Androids replace our nation's leaders - for the deadliest purpose of all! The Hulk takes on everybody! Extra: an offbeat Greenskin shocker!

Notes

Continuity Notes[]

The President and Vice President of the United States of America are depicted as Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew in this story. This should be considered a topical reference as per the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616.
General Ross mentions how the Leader's mind was broken recently; this happened in Incredible Hulk #139.
Doc Samson loses his gamma-spawned super-powers this issue. He will regain them again in Incredible Hulk #193.

Publication Notes[]

As seen on page 1, Story One is numbered 745-Z.
Story One is 12 pages long. Story Two is nine pages.
This issue contains a letters page, Greenskin's Grab Bag. Letters are published from Richard H. Volbrecht, Sid Harringon and (Name Withheld).

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