Tales to Astonish 1959 #68 - 4.5 - $30.00
Realizing that the strain of growing and shrinking so much is doing damage to his body, Hank adjusts his helmet so he can only grow to one size--the 35 foot height of Giant-Man. With the Ant-Man side of his abilities out of his bag of tricks, he adjusts Jan's helmet so she can cybernetically communicate with wasps. Oh, and the Human Top attacks too.
Saving Talbot and himself from plunging to their deaths, the Hulk decides he is tired of world travel and leaps home. Waking up in gamma base, Bruce is once again jailed as a traitor and the president once again sets him free (Rick told the commander in chief the secret of the Hulk a few issues ago). Banner and Talbot are once again sent to Astra Island to continue a test of the absorbatron but the leader sends an army of Humanoids who finally succeed in capturing the Hulk.
On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- Peril from the Past! / Back from the Dead! - Giant-Man figure taken from page 3; panel 1 of interior story, with figure of man added by Kirby/Colletta. Bottom tier featuring the Hulk is also Kirby/Colletta art. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2014.
- - House ad for the M.M.M.S. plus membership form.
- Back from the Dead! - Continued next issue. At this point, all the stories are multi-part in cliff-hanger style and are continued in following issues.
- - Letters from: John Meysenburg Jr, Doug Handler, Jeff Charlet, Buddy Coyle, and Michael Venia; includes The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
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