Tales to Astonish #61

Dates

Cover date

November 1964

On sale

August 4, 1964

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #61 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition12¢ cover

  Source ↗
• UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

  British

  Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• Now Walks the Android · 14 pages

  Egghead uses a simple clothing store dummy to create a giant and powerful android which he plans on controlling mentally as it battles and defeats Giant-Man. He entices his arch-foe into his trap with the promise of a television series based on his heroic exploits (actually, it is Jan who is pretty keen on getting Hank into show biz).

• Captured at Last! · 10 pages

  The Hulk takes on the indestructible Banner-created robot and, in one of the more dubious plot devices in comics, succeeds in kicking him down a bottomless hole when he realizes that he cannot beat the machine. Glenn Talbot arrives on gamma base sent by the Pentagon to keep an eye on the suspicious activity of Bruce Banner. Glenn decides that keeping an eye on Betty seems like a good idea as well. The Hulk is felled while saving Gamma Base from a missile and Ross captures him in a special restraint built by Bruce Banner based on a design by Tony Stark.

Characters

Reprinted in

Smash! (1966), The Incredible Hulk (1966), The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), The Incredible Hulk (1974), The Incredible Hulk (1978), Essential Hulk (1999), Essential Ant-Man (2002), Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (2003), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2006), The Incredible Hulk Omnibus (2008), Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (2009), Incredible Hulk Epic Collection (2015), Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (2015), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (2021)