Comic Review – Archie Goodwin – The Incredible Hulk – Cry Hulk! Cry Havok!

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Spoiler alerts. Marvel comics 1973. Hulk is pursued relentlessly through the Nevada Desert by the US army who take him on with a quite exciting helicopter attack, which is suddenly inexplicably aborted on government orders for reasons not explained in this issue. The story now takes a different route as Hulk interrupts a man and woman who seem to be fighting in the desert, but the girl is actually trying to talk the young man into re-joining The X-Men. He is Havok, a superhero able to wield cosmic rays but afraid of his own powers. He ends up using them to put Hulk to sleep rather too easily and Hulk turns into Bruce Banner just as the army catch him. Very much a story in two halves though oddly it is the super-powers battle that is boring rather than the Hulk V the military part. Arthur Chappell