- —Silas Bleede
Appearing in "I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk! Chapter One The Coming of the Hulk / Chapter 2 Slaves of the Hulk!"
Journey Into Mystery #62
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Mrs. Harper (Joe's Wife)
Antagonists:
- Xemnu The Living Hulk (Main story and flashback) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- United States Air Force
- Fred (Behind the scenes)
- FBI (Referenced)
- Several unidentified aliens (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed Earthlings
- United States Army
Races and Species:
- Xem (Main story and as }} {{1st in flashback)
- Cyborgs (Main story and flashback)
- Humans
- Unidentified alien species (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America
- United States of America
- North Carolina
- Cary (First appearance)
- Unnamed Rader Station
- Joe's House
- Fred's House (Mentioned)
- Blacktree Swamp (First appearance)
- Cary (First appearance)
- North Carolina
- United States of America
- North America
- Sun (Mentioned)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Unnamed Exile World (Only in flashback) (First appearance)
- Xemnu's Home Planet (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Xemnu's Original Spaceship (Main story and flashback) (Destroyed)
- Xemnu's New Spaceship
Synopsis for "I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk! Chapter One The Coming of the Hulk / Chapter 2 Slaves of the Hulk!"
Journey Into Mystery #62
Xemnu was one of several inmates on an "exile world" until he snuck past several guards and onto a supply ship. The hijacked craft was only capable of bearing him half of the way home, however, and he was forced to crash land on Earth. There his unconscious, non-operational body was found in Blacktree Swamp by electrician Joe Harper. Hopeful that he could revive Xemnu by repairing his cybernetic parts, Harper brought Xemnu's body to his workshop. There he revived Xemnu through an electrolysis process. While recharging, Xemnu revealed that he was a convict and then used his hypnosis rays to take control of Harper. After confirming that his hypnosis did in fact work on humans, Xemnu brought Harper out of his trance and revealed his plan to enthrall all of humanity in order to construct a new ship, capable of bearing him home. The force needed to launch the ship would cause a chain of geological events which would tear the Earth apart. As Harper was the one who revived Xemnu, he was to be taken along and spared the fate of the rest of his planet (though Harper suspected that he just liked having someone to gloat over and boast to). Xemnu enthralled the entire human race with his hypnosis rays, and order them to design and construct his new spacecraft. Joe Harper was able to save the Earth by sabotaging the craft: when Xemnu prepared to depart, two crossed wires caused a short circuit which locked him in a state of shock. Harper then launched the craft with only a fraction of the power Xemnu intended, sending him into orbit around the sun. When Xemnu travelled past the Earth's atmosphere, the effects of his hypnosis rays ended, and only Joe remembered Xemnu had ever appeared.
Appearing in "I Made the Hulk Live"
Strange Tales #75
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
- Joe
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Mighty Hulk (First appearance)
Synopsis for "I Made the Hulk Live"
Strange Tales #75
A short and bitter scientist is obsessed with building a powerful giant robot body. He traps himself inside without the means to activate the robot, living out his life on the food which he'd stored inside.
Solicit Synopsis
Reprinting material from Journey Into Mystery (1950) #62,
Strange Tales (1951) #75