Tales to Astonish 1959 #96 - back issue - $15.00

Before conducting war against the surface-dwellers, Namor visits the Savage Land beneath the continent of Antarctica. Dorma, against orders, follows behind him. Meanwhile the Plunderer, unknown to the Atlanteans, has constructed a base on Skull Island and as Namor and Dorma approach, fires on them. Namor is captured while Dorma flees back to Atlantis.

With Banner trapped and about to be evolved by the High Evolutionary, the New Men attack and stop the experiment. Banner becomes the Hulk and fights the New Men. The Evolutionary decides that the only way to stop his former creations is to do to himself what he planned on doing to Banner--evolving himself a thousand years into humanity's future. He does so and becomes a transcendent being who devolves his New Men back into animals before melting into cosmic consciousness. The Hulk is left alone on Wundagore II, the only sentient being on a lonely planet.

On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• Somewhere Stands... Skull Island! - According to Nick Caputo, Roth drew all of page 10 and "may have also done some touch ups on the faces of the Plunderer and his accomplice on page 6, panel 3; page 9, panels 3 and 4; possibly the last panel on page 11 and the first panel on page 12." (R. Schenk, May 2009, via the Error Tracker)
• A Sagacious Smattering of Scuttlebutt, Scoops, and Space-Wasting Small-Talk! - Items, Stan's Soapbox, The Mighty Marvel Checklist, Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
• What Have I Created? - See notes for next issue which picks up a new adventure on Earth with no explanation as to how Hulk got there.
• - Letters from Charles Meyerson, Scott Campbell, and Alan Siegel. Includes an image from an earlier issue in advertisement for The Merry Marvel Marching Society membership kit.