Incredible Hulk Vol 1 103

Incredible Hulk Vol 1 #103

May, 1968

Editor-in-Chief

Stan Lee

Cover Artists

Marie Severin
Frank Giacoia
Artie Simek

Publisher

Marvel Comics

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Appearing in "And Now... The Space Parasite!"

Featured Characters:

• Hulk (Bruce Banner)

Supporting Characters:

•  Betty Ross 
•  General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross 
•  Glenn Talbot 
•  Rick Jones 

Adversaries:

• Space Parasite  (First appearance) (Appears in flashback and main story)

Other Characters:

• Xeronians (First appearance)
  • "a dove-like old man"
  • Excellency, the Xeronian monarch
• Thing (Only in flashback)
• Charlie(First appearance)
• George(First appearance)
• Jack Klyne(First appearance)
• New York Police Department
  •  Joe 
• Green, tentacled alien

Locations:

• New York City
  • Bronx
    • Yankee Stadium (First appearance)
  • Manhattan
    • Times Square
  • Hudson River
  • Rick Jones' home
• Xeron (Planet) (First appearance)
  • The Solar Chamber

Items:

• Solar Sceptre

Vehicles:

• Randau's ship
  • Teleportation chamber
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Synopsis for "And Now... The Space Parasite!"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Notes

• This issue is reprinted in Essential Hulk, Volume 2 and Marvel Super-Heroes (Volume 1) #57.
• First appearance of Randau, the Space Parasite. While it appears that Randau dies in space in this issue, he actually survives and spends several years in a state of suspended animation, as revealed in Wolverine (Volume 2) #136.
• Betty Ross, General Ross, Glenn Talbot and Rick Jones appeared last in Tales to Astonish (Volume 1) #100.
• This issue contains a letters page, Green Skin's Grab Bag. Letters are published from Sheldon Wiebe, Dale Simpson, Jeff Hamilton, William De La Torre, Mark Ramos, Paul Sanford, and Neil Lindenbaum.
  

Trivia

• The Thing (Ben Grimm) makes a cameo appearance in flashback in this issue.
• Other members of the Xeronian race can be seen in Nova (Volume 3) #1.
  

Related Articles

• Hulk image gallery
• Hulk chronology page
• Hulk quotes page
• Betty Ross chronology page
• General Ross chronology page
• Glenn Talbot chronology page
• Rick Jones chronology page

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See Also

• Discuss Incredible Hulk Vol 1 103 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Incredible Hulk series

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Recommended Reading

• Incredible Hulk (Volume 1)
• Incredible Hulk (Volume 2)
• Defenders (Volume 1)
• Defenders (Volume 2)
• Rampaging Hulk (Volume 1)
• Rampaging Hulk (Volume 2)
• Tales to Astonish (Volume 1)

Links and References

• Incredible Hulk profile at Wikipedia
• Incredible Hulk profile at Marvel Universe
• Incredible Hulk profile at Toonopedia
• Incredible Hulk series index at the Grand Comics Database
• Incredible Hulk series index at CBDB
• Incredible Hulk series index at Comicbookdb.com
• Hulk Library