Tales to Astonish 91

"Hulk must be free! Hulk must go--! And where the Hulk walks -- he walks alone!"

- The Hulk

"Whosoever Hams the Hulk..!" is the title to the first story featured in issue #91 of the Tales to Astonish ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story features the character of the Hulk and was written by Stan Lee with artwork and inks by Gil Kane. It was lettered by Artie Simek. The second story is called "Outside the Gates Waits.. Death!" and features the Sub-Mariner. It was written by Stan Lee, drawn by Bill Everett, inked by Dan Adkins, and lettered by Sam Rosen. Both stories were edited by Stan Lee. This issue shipped with a May, 1967 cover date and carries a cover price of .12 cents per copy.

"Whosoever Hams the Hulk..!"

 * Hulk, Bruce Banner


 * Betty Ross
 * Thaddeus Ross


 * Abomination, Emil Blonsky


 * The Stranger


 * United States Air Force


 * Humans
 * Altered humans
 * Cosmic beings


 * New Mexico
 * Gamma Base


 * Machine gun
 * Infinite Weapon Ray


 * None


 * Superhuman strength
 * Super-leaping
 * Teleportation
 * Transformation


 * Gamma radiation
 * General
 * Military police
 * Military units
 * Sergeant
 * Surgeon

"Outside the Gates Waits.. Death!"

 * Sub-Mariner, Namor


 * Dorma
 * Vashti


 * Attuma
 * Byrrah
 * Krang
 * Volcano monster


 * Unnamed Atlantean guards


 * None


 * Atlanteans
 * Mutants
 * Fish
 * Octopi
 * Whales


 * Atlantis
 * Inferno Isle
 * Missile site


 * Ionic force field
 * Missile
 * Hypno-Beam
 * Projector Ray


 * None


 * Flight
 * Winged flight


 * Superhuman strength


 * Hypnosis
 * Volcano

Hulk Notes

 * This is the second appearance of the Abomination. He appeared last in Tales to Astonish #90.


 * Rick Jones makes reference to when Bruce Banner saved him from the effects of the Gamma Bomb. This happened back in Incredible Hulk #1.


 * The military uses gamma electrodes to revive the Hulk. Who the Hell keeps gamma electrodes lying around the place?


 * This issue reinforces the notion that the Abomination is stronger than the Hulk when the Hulk is at optimal rage levels. 'Course there's always that old credo of "The angrier Hulk gets, the stronger he gets".


 * This is the first appearance of the Infinite Weapon Ray. What a dumbass name.

Sub-Mariner Notes

 * This is the second Silver Age appearance of Prince Byrrah. He appeared last in He appeared last in Tales to Astonish #90. He appears next in Tales to Astonish #96.

Bloopers

 * General Ross refers to Betty's kidnapper as the "Abomination". At this point, only the Abomination referred to himself by this name, and it was out of earshot of anyone else. Quite a stroke of coincidence that Ross just happened to coin the exact same name for him.