The Incredible Hulk #102 - “Big Premiere Issue” (April 1968)

Hulk, with deus ex machina
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I haven’t posted one of these in a while, but we still have hundreds of vintage comics yet unseen in the Lizard Collection crypt. Tonight’s item is the “Big Premiere Issue” of The Incredible Hulk, featuring a great Hulk-transformation montage drawn by two Marvel artists, Marie Severin and Frank Giacoia, with lettering by Sam Rosen and Morrie Kuramoto. This copy looks almost new, like many of the books in our collection.

It’s numbered “102” because this series carries over from Tales to Astonish, in which the Hulk was sharing a book with the Sub-Mariner, because let’s face it, sharing anything with the Hulk never works out.

In this storyline, the Hulk has been transported to Asgard by Loki, that trickster. He’s a prankster, Loki. A series of incomprehensible events occurs, followed by a big fight. The Hulk gets killed, then Odin brings him back to life.

We’re talkin’ full-on deus ex machina here, people.

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60 comments
1 RealityBasedSteve  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 4:39:02pm

I was just thinking we were due another Comic Page.

RBS

2 BongCrodny  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:14:10pm

Ah, for the simpler times of The Incredible Hulk.

Now? Now they have The Incredible Hulk, Red Hulk, She-Hulk, Red She-Hulk, and Son of Hulk.

It’s not pretty.

3 RealityBasedSteve  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:16:46pm

Well, it goes a long way in explaining The Hulks attitude toward Loki.


RBS

4 Targetpractice  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:19:37pm

re: #2 BongCrodny

Ah, for the simpler times of The Incredible Hulk.

Now? Now they have The Incredible Hulk, Red Hulk, She-Hulk, Red She-Hulk, and Son of Hulk.

It’s not pretty.

Not to mention the 31 different flavors of X-Men line-ups, splinter groups, individual titles, alternate universe titles, etc, etc.

Meanwhile Deadpool just adds another dialogue box for each new split personality.

5 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:20:41pm

The toy remote control car I bought for my g-grandson is already broken. And I just got batteries for it today (my g-son stole the rechargables I had bought, for his xbox controller). Made in China, of course. It’s going back to the store (I lost the receipt in all the bustle) and they’d better give me a store credit. Bought the other g-grandson one, also.

The car refused to move after about 10 times. Looks like this but w/a smaller r.c. Image: Maisto-Chevrolet-Camaro-SS-RS-Remote-Control-Car-P13867209.jpg

Toys are just a real waste of money and resources. Next year it’s clothes.

6 wrenchwench  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:26:01pm

There’s a great bicycle touring book available on Kindle for only $3.99, and proceeds* go to Adventure Cycling, a bicycle touring and route-mapping organization.

Spokesongs: Bicycle Adventures on Three Continents

Willie Weir really knows how to tell a tale.

*through the end of the year

7 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:27:42pm
8 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:31:34pm

Indeed.

9 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:31:55pm

10 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:34:02pm

I actually caught that photo right at the moment when the setting sun was at a perfect angle to illuminate the flower while leaving the background in semi-darkness. I saw the flower sort of glowing as I was walking by, and pulled out my iPhone just in time.

11 wrenchwench  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:38:06pm

Those pistils seem to be glowing from the inside.

12 wrenchwench  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:38:29pm

Unless of course those are stamen….

13 Stanley Sea  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:40:59pm
14 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:42:02pm

re: #5 Justanotherhuman

The toy remote control car I bought for my g-grandson is already broken. And I just got batteries for it today (my g-son stole the rechargables I had bought, for his xbox controller). Made in China, of course. It’s going back to the store (I lost the receipt in all the bustle) and they’d better give me a store credit. Bought the other g-grandson one, also.

The car refused to move after about 10 times. Looks like this but w/a smaller r.c. Image: Maisto-Chevrolet-Camaro-SS-RS-Remote-Control-Car-P13867209.jpg

Toys are just a real waste of money and resources. Next year it’s clothes.

Depends on the toys. My older daughter still has the 3 foot tall Raggedy Ann doll I got for her second Christmas. She is 36 now, so the doll is 34.

15 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:42:13pm

re: #11 wrenchwench

Those pistils seem to be glowing from the inside.

And I didn’t play with the colors at all - that’s straight out of the camera and very close to the real thing.

16 wrenchwench  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:44:15pm

re: #14 Shiplord Kirel

Depends on the toys. My older daughter still has the 3 foot tall Raggedy Ann doll I got for her second Christmas. She is 36 now, so the doll is 34.

She was probably afraid of it for the first 12 years or so.

17 dog philosopher  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:44:20pm

re: #5 Justanotherhuman

The toy remote control car I bought for my g-grandson is already broken. And I just got batteries for it today (my g-son stole the rechargables I had bought, for his xbox controller). Made in China, of course. It’s going back to the store (I lost the receipt in all the bustle) and they’d better give me a store credit. Bought the other g-grandson one, also.

The car refused to move after about 10 times. Looks like this but w/a smaller r.c. Image: Maisto-Chevrolet-Camaro-SS-RS-Remote-Control-Car-P13867209.jpg

Toys are just a real waste of money and resources. Next year it’s clothes.

i was likely to take my toys apart to try and figure out how they worked

one day i asked for a ‘tiny tears’ doll, since i wanted to disembowel it to figure out how the tears mechanism functioned. of course my parents had a fit since i was a boy and it was the early 60s, but they bought me the doll, which i promptly disassembled

after that they had my game figured out. they bought be a bunch of building blocks and told me “here, buster, this is all you’re gonna get from now on. let’s see you try and take those apart”

18 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:44:51pm

Oh.

19 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:45:38pm

Phil Robertson

A good woman is “hard to find. Mainly because these boys are waiting until they get to be about 20 years old before they marry ‘em. Look, you wait till they get to be about 20 years old, they only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket. You gotta marry these girls when they’re 15 or 16, they’ll pick your ducks. You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course.” — Speaking at Sportsmen’s Ministry in Georgia in 2009.

20 dog philosopher  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:46:41pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

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good bud, d00d…

21 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:46:51pm

In a way, I was like a flying insect, inexorably drawn to the glowing multicolored pollen provider.

Mmm. Pollen. Tasty.

22 wrenchwench  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:48:00pm

Later, lizards.

23 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:48:47pm
“Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant God haters. They are heartless. They are faithless. They are senseless. They are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.” — Speaking at the 2010 Wild Game Supper in Pottstown, Pa.

latimes.com

24 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:49:58pm

Youtube Video

25 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:51:46pm

re: #22 wrenchwench

They’re actually fighting for their lives at that point.

26 Targetpractice  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:51:53pm

re: #19 Gus

Phil Robertson

Nothing quite like that grade A misogyny, is there?

27 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:53:01pm

re: #19 Gus

THEY’LL PICK YOUR DUCKS.

I don’t even want to know what that means.

28 Iwouldprefernotto  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:53:48pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

THEY’LL PICK YOUR DUCKS.

I don’t even want to know what that means.

Yes you do.

29 Targetpractice  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:53:51pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

THEY’LL PICK YOUR DUCKS.

I don’t even want to know what that means.

Sounds pretty kinky to me.

//

30 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:55:07pm

re: #19 Gus

“You gotta marry these girls when they’re 15 or 16…”

That’s what the entire right wing media machine immediately defended.

31 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:55:14pm

Ted Nugent… Phil Robertson… hmm.

32 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:55:54pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

That’s what the entire right wing media machine immediately defended.

“You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course.”

33 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:57:30pm
34 prairiefire  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:57:46pm

For BBC “Sherlock” fans! Digital premiere of PBS show “Unlocking Sherlock” ~video.pbs.org

35 Targetpractice  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:58:15pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

That’s what the entire right wing media machine immediately defended.

Yeah, the same folks who are up in arms about the number of teenage pregnancies and unwed mothers, asserting that both are somehow proof of our breakdown in morals, are defending a guy who says that guys need to start looking for marriage material before they’re even old enough to vote.

36 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 5:59:41pm

WTFITS

37 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:01:03pm

re: #36 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

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Like I said. The GOP is basically a bunch of wingnut blog commentators.

38 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:03:06pm

re: #37 Gus

This kind of stuff is why, even though I still have plenty of issues with the left and the far left and the crazy Greenwald left, I can’t hang with the right. Their shit is all fucked up.

39 Kragar  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:04:20pm
40 Targetpractice  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:04:24pm

Listening to Robertson’s pearls of “wisdom” give me the impression that he’s much like most male wingnuts, namely pining for something that never was and preaching values that went out of style with bell bottoms. Not much of what he’s saying we haven’t heard from the likes of Bryan Fischer or Newt Gingrich.

41 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:06:04pm

42 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:06:10pm

Just in case you weren’t really sure how it’s done:

43 freetoken  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:06:37pm

Speaking of strange, green things:

‘Glow-In-The-Dark’ Piglets Born In China With Fluorescent Protein From Jellyfish DNA

Vimeo

44 Kragar  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:06:37pm

Remember, according to Robertson supporters, he should be supported because he’s just citing scripture, but Muslims support pedophilia and other such nonsense.

45 nines09  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:06:46pm

Phil is a louse. All the blood suckers love him.

46 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:08:14pm

re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth

Just in case you weren’t really sure how it’s done:

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Nothing like breaking some vertebrae as foreplay!

47 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:08:26pm

With the left, there are still plenty of people with their heads on straight, people you can talk to and feel like you’re on the same planet.

The right wing, on the other hand, has almost universally gone batshit.

48 Killgore Trout  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:08:50pm

re: #36 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

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Lovely comments from the outraged masses….

newrules_
Better to shoot yourself in the fucking head with ��

49 dog philosopher  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:10:13pm

re: #41 Gus

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he’s got a distinctive look. unless he changes it, he’s gonna spend the rest of his life getting tagged as “oh, look, there’s that ‘happy darkies’ asshole” or “look, there’s that ‘gays are like criminals’ asshole”

50 Killgore Trout  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:12:28pm

re: #49 dog philosopher

he’s got a distinctive look. unless he changes it, he’s gonna spend the rest of his life getting tagged as “oh, look, there’s that ‘happy darkies’ asshole” or “look, there’s that ‘gays are like criminals’ asshole”

It’s a gimmick for a tv show. In 6 months he’ll shave and we’ll never even remember he existed at all.

51 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:15:08pm

52 Targetpractice  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:17:56pm

re: #51 Gus

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I read lines like this, yet I’m told by his defenders that he’s said nothing offensive and the criticism of him is all because I’m “anti-Christian” or similar BS.

53 GeneJockey  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:23:34pm

re: #43 freetoken

Speaking of strange, green things:

‘Glow-In-The-Dark’ Piglets Born In China With Fluorescent Protein From Jellyfish DNA

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It’s been done with all kinds of animals - mice, rats, bunnies, chickens. A woman who worked for me back in the mid-00’s had worked at a company making transgenic chickens. The Green Fluorescent Protein made their eyes green, which gave then an evil look…

54 Gus  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:25:58pm

55 RealityBasedSteve  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:29:55pm

re: #54 Gus

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Now you’re just scaring us Gus….


RBS

56 Kragar  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:30:04pm

Alabama lawmaker will introduce bill defending ‘Duck Dynasty’s’ Phil Robertson

State Sen. Jerry Fielding’s (R) bill states in part that Robertson, who was benched following homophobic and racially-fueled statements to GQ, “should not be penalized in any way for practicing freedom of speech, but should be celebrated as a hero for courageously revealing his self-truth and Christian ideals in a world that can be unkind towards those with a conservative mind-set.”

Fuck you Jerry.

57 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:32:22pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

That’s what the entire right wing media machine immediately defended.

From what I understand marrying girls off in their teens was somewhat common in the south until after WWII. So there is cultural history in play there.

/Not defending, explaining

58 Eclectic Cyborg  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 6:38:42pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

That’s what the entire right wing media machine immediately defended.

A few things about that:

- Phil Robertson started dating his wife when she was 14 and he was 18. They married two years later

- Biblically, it was very common for much older men to marry younger women. Think men in their mid to late 20s marry girls age 13-17. It is commonly accepted that Mary was around 14 or 15 when she gave birth to Jesus. This was of course, in large part due to the fact that lifespans were much shorter back then so hitting the key fertility window for girls was very important.

- In the South it is WAY more common for women to get married and start having kids young than in the North. I’ve known few girls/women down here who haven’t had a baby by the time they are 25. Several women I went to school with in Canada are still without kids and over 30. I can’t even think off the top of my head of any women I know in my age range (I’m 32) who are still single. I guess Christianity has a lot do with it, but down here for the most part being single past a certain age is simply considered “improper”.

So, to sum up, I think there are a number of historical, religious and regional influences behind what Phil said here.

Also, please don’t take this to mean I agree with him. I don’t. By his logic my wife and I were ancient when we got married (we were 25 and 26, respectively).

59 Eventual Carrion  Thu, Dec 26, 2013 7:07:34pm

re: #29 Targetpractice

Sounds pretty kinky to me.

//

Kinky is using the duck feathers, perverted is using the whole duck.

60 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Dec 27, 2013 3:51:21am

re: #54 Gus

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Needs some eye shadow, and fake lashes.


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