"Here Comes the Hulk!" Xemnu, the living Hulk, first showed up in 1960, a few years before the green (and more famous) Hulk appeared. He was later renamed The Living Titan. It is a convict from an intergalactic prison world. It turns up on Earth, with its energy severely depleted. Good ol' Joe Harper (who looks a lot like Dr. Robert Bruce Banner), your friendly neighborhood electrician, is hypnotized by the Hulk. He helps it revive, and then it wants to take over the Earth. It actually does, and makes the enthralled people build it a new spaceship. Joe is not hypnotized, so Xemnu can gloat, but hubris is its downfall. Joe crosses the wires and sends the Hulk on an endless jaunt around our sun. The people of Earth are freed! No one but Joe knows what happened.Ol' Xemnu didn't get his title changed until Marvel began doing monster story reprints in the early 70s. I read a fair number of these, though I rarely bought the comic books. They are still very enjoyable in their naive way. I wish that Marvel would put out nicely priced reprints of these stories now.
Happy Halloween!
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