Tales to Astonish #60
Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- October 1964
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.12 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/18700
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Issue contents
Cover
No title recorded
(Giant-Man; Hulk)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Giant-Man; Hulk
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Sol Brodsky
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
1"Hank! What's gotten into you!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp
- Genre
- Superhero
- Code
- X-765
- Characters
- Giant-Man [Henry Pym; also as Ant-Man]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; GUEST: Lee Kearns; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Maria Trovaya (Henry's 1st wife)
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
Synopsis
When Henry learns that an old buddy has been captured behind the Iron Curtain, he heads off to East Berlin to mount a rescue. Using both the powers of Giant-Man and Ant-Man Hank rescues Lee and destroys the ray the reds are using to create hyper-intelligent gorillas.
2"In a hidden cave, beneath the burning sands..."
Featuring
- Feature
- The Incredible Hulk
- Genre
- Superhero
- Code
- X-763
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; VILLAIN: Banner Bot
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko
- Inks
- George Roussos [as Geo. Bell]
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
Reprint history
Synopsis
Bruce creates an indestructible robot which is able to withstand the power of a nuclear blast but the stress of completing it on schedule causes him to transform into the Hulk and he leaves this massive weapon of awesome power unattended. A foreign spy who has been hanging around jumps into the robot and takes off. The Hulk tries to stop the robot but can't and once he is worn out from the battle, he transforms back into Banner. Found lying in the desert by Ross and Betty, Bruce vows to build a bigger and better robot to take down the first one.
Notes
Story continues from Incredible Hulk #6 but with significant changes. In the original series ending, Bruce still used his gamma ray machine to transform himself into the Hulk and, although "meaner" than his alter ego, the Hulk still retained Bruce's intellect. Here in Tales to Astonish all of a sudden, Bruce realizes that it is stress that causes him to become the jade giant and he does not turn back until he either calms down or wears himself out physically. Bruce and the Hulk now also have completely different personas and are only vaguely aware of what the other does. Creating a more inexplicable no-prize worthy mystery, without Rick Jones to hold them (there is your previous solution), what happens to Bruce Banner's glasses when he transforms to the Hulk and back again (in this story, they magically appear on the ground next to him in the desert after he makes the change).
Indicia
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