Dates
- Cover date
- October 7, 1972
- Pages
- 40
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Coming of the Hulk · 10 pages
Scientist Bruce Banner saves a young boy, Rick Jones, from being killed by a nuclear blast but absorbs deadly amounts of gamma radiation which transforms him into a monster dubbed the Hulk. Bruce Banner is scientist by day, but transforms into the Hulk once the sun goes down.
- The Fantastic Four · 13 pages
Mysterious events occur in Central City, as an invisible woman alarms the citizens, a lumpy-skinned monster stalks the streets and a blazing human figure flashes across the sky; these three unearthly people have been summoned to the presence of a fourth, a man with elastic limbs. Once they gather, the tale is told as to how Susan Storm, Ben Grimm, Sue's brother Johnny and Reed Richards gained their strange powers: during an attempt to be the first into space, where their ship's shielding proved ineffective against cosmic rays, and they returned to Earth ... more than human.
- A Special Message fom Stan Lee · 2 pages
- Spider-Man · 10 pages
Orphan Peter Parker, "professional wallflower", brought up by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains the proportionate abilities of an arachnid. Making a costume and devising webshooters, he chooses to use those abilities to achieve fame and make money, as Spider-Man, TV star. When he fails to stop a takings thief who runs past him, despite the ease with which he could have done so, his uncle is later killed as a result. He therefore learns to his cost that with great power there must also come great responsibility.