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Issue Details

Issue #119
Published September 1969
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Possible Romita cover credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo.

Cover Details - "At the Mercy of...Maximus the Mad!"

Characters Hulk; Maximus the Mad
Genre superhero
Pencils Herb Trimpe (signed)
Inks Herb Trimpe (signed); John Romita? (cover alterations)
Notes Possible Romita cover credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo.
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #72; in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #3

20 page Hulk story "At the Mercy of Maximus the Mad"

Characters FEATURE: Hulk; GUESTS: Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Glen Talbot; VILLAINS: Maximus the Mad; Inhumans--Falcona; Leonus; Timberius; Aireo; Nebulo; Stallior; CAMEO: Richard Nixon
Synopsis Bruce Banner is in the country of Costa Salvador when he runs across a town in the shadow if a giant robot whose inhabitants seem to be mind controlled; As he finds his own mind being assaulted, Bruce turns into the Hulk and then attacks a hilltop fortress that seems to be the source of the mental manipulation; Breaking into the fortress, Hulk finds that his foes are Maximus the Mad and his evil band of Inhumans and a battle ensues; The army also attacks the fortress and Maximus talks the Hulk into helping him repel the jade giant's oldest enemies.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Herb Trimpe
Inks Herb Trimpe
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #72; in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #3