Issue Description

The Hulk is trapped in the occultist plot of a crazed cult! Will the Undying Ones be unleashed once more? But first, the Night-Crawler emerges. Doctor Strange guest-stars!

Where Stalks the Night-Crawler

After battling The Absorbing Man (issue #125), the unconscious body of Bruce Banner is carried to a mysterious mansion by a youthful cult. The cult are servants of The Undying Ones and have brought Banner to their master Van Nyborg who plans to send The Hulk to the Shadow Realm to defeat The Night-Crawler, allowing The Undying Ones to pass through his realm and enter Earth. Banner is forcefully transported to the Shadow Realm but refuses to change into Hulk as he would rather perish than serve this evil cause. Meantime one of the cultists, Barbara, has an attack of conscience and is banished to the Shadow Realm herself where she is attacked by Night-Crawler. On seeing this Banner changes to Hulk and his attack ends up destroying the entire Shadow realm, forcing Night-Crawler to teleport them all to The Undying Ones realm. Once there, Night-Crawler battles a horde of the Undying Ones demons and their leader, the two-headed Nameless One in order to take over this realm for himself. Meanwhile Barbara sacrifices herself to free a trapped Doctor Strange due to her guilt. The Doctor and then teleports himself and Hulk back to his Santum Santorium on Earth, leaving the demons to finish each other off. Bruce Banner reappears and Doctor Strange announces as the Earth is now safe from The Undying Ones, he will return to his former life as a physician. Banner and Strange part ways as friends.

The Incredible Hulk (1968)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

Continued from Tales to Astonish Vol.1 which was originally one of several anthology comics published by Marvel in the 1960's featuring one-shot monsters in their own tales. Over the years the series began to focus more upon some of the anti-heroes still famous to this day such as the Sub-Mariner and The Incredible Hulk. That is why, after 101 issues, that series changed its name to The Incredible Hulk with issue #102. Under this new name the series lasted thirty more years until it finally concluded with issue #474. The series was then revamped with a new number one and a new title, simply called Hulk (1998).

Although it started out as Tales to Astonish, this is actually the second volume to be entitled "The Incredible Hulk", the first, The Incredible Hulk (1962), having begun publication six years earlier, although it only lasted six issues.

Collected EditionsMarvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude (#271)Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Team-Up (#271)Guardians of the Galaxy Solo Classic Omnibus (#271)The Incredible Hulk: Crossroads (#301-313)Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (#314-319)Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus (#383-385)The Incredible Hulk Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past (#397-406)

Marvel Masterworks: Incredible Hulk

Vol. 3: #102Vol. 4: #103-110, Annual #1Vol. 5: #111-121Vol. 6: #122-134

Hulk by Bill Mantlo

Pardoned (#269-285) Regression (#286-300, Annual #12)

Visionaries John Byrne

Vol. 1 (#314-319)

Visionaries Peter David:

Vol. 1 (#331-339)Vol. 2 (#340-348)Vol. 3 (#349-354)Vol. 4 (#355-363)Vol. 5 (#364-372, Annual #16)Vol. 6 (#373-382)Vol. 7 (#383-389)Vol. 8 (#390-396, Annual #18)

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