Incredible Hulk Vol 1 5

Incredible Hulk Vol 1 #5

January, 1963

Editor-in-Chief

Stan Lee

Cover Artists

Jack Kirby
Dick Ayers

Publisher

Marvel Comics

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Appearing in "Beauty and the Beast!"

Featured Characters:

•  Hulk (Bruce Banner) 

Supporting Characters:

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

Adversaries:

• Tyrannus  (First appearance)
• mechanical gladiator (Destroyed in this issue)

Other Characters:

• Tyrannoids (First appearance)
• The President (Mentioned)
• Merlin (Mentioned) (arguably this Merlin)
• Hercules (Mentioned)
• Chubby Checker (Mentioned)

Locations:

• United States Of America
  • New Mexico
    • Los Diablos Missile Base
• Subterranea

Items:

• Fountain of Youth (First appearance)
  
  

Synopsis for "Beauty and the Beast!"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

  Appearing in "The Hordes of General Fang!"

Featured Characters:

• Hulk (Bruce Banner)

Supporting Characters:

• General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross
• Rick Jones

Adversaries:

• General Fang and his horde (First appearance) (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

• High Lama
• United States Army
• Abominable Snowman (Mentioned)
• Dragon

Locations:

• United States Of America
  • New Mexico
    • Los Diablos Missile Base
    • Hulk's Cave
• China
  • Llhasa (First appearance)
• Taiwan (First appearance)
• Formosa

Items:

• Gamma Ray Projector
• General Fang's 3-D Projector
• Iceberg Rocket

Vehicles:

• Various military vehicles
  
  

Synopsis for "The Hordes of General Fang!"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Notes

• This issue is reprinted in Essential Hulk, Volume 1 and Marvel Masterworks #8.

• Although not named in this issue, Tyrannus' underground lair is likely part of Subterranea.

• First and only appearance of General Fang.

• General Ross' Iceberg Rocket was introduced in issue #4.
  

Trivia

• The Hulk disguises himself as an Abominable Snowman in this issue.
  

Related Articles

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

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See Also

• Discuss Incredible Hulk Vol 1 5 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