1. 18 Jun


    Incredible Hulk #405 By Peter David, Gary Frank, and Cam Smith Published May 1993 Paris gets Ajax out of the infirmary early to cause trouble, because he knows the first thing Ajax will do is head to Atalanta’s quarters, where she is having sex with Achilles. He punches Achilles and gets upset that Atalanta said she loves him, which she does, but in the way you love a severely retarded man-child who is trapped in an armored suit. When Hulk tries to break up the fight Ajax fights him. Then Ajax tries to crush a mountain and bury himself alive. Hulk gives Ajax a hug and everything is okay. A lawyer representing Marlo’s family serves Rick with some papers.

    Incredible Hulk #405
    By Peter David, Gary Frank, and Cam Smith
    Published May 1993

    Paris gets Ajax out of the infirmary early to cause trouble, because he knows the first thing Ajax will do is head to Atalanta’s quarters, where she is having sex with Achilles. He punches Achilles and gets upset that Atalanta said she loves him, which she does, but in the way you love a severely retarded man-child who is trapped in an armored suit. When Hulk tries to break up the fight Ajax fights him. Then Ajax tries to crush a mountain and bury himself alive. Hulk gives Ajax a hug and everything is okay.

    A lawyer representing Marlo’s family serves Rick with some papers.

     

  2. 17 Jun


    Incredible Hulk #404 By Peter David, Gary Frank, and Cam Smith Published April 1993 Hulk and Juggernaut beat up the C-list Avengers with Mentallo making Hulk think Juggernaut is his father. But Juggernaut keeps telling Hulk what a good job he’s doing and how proud he is, which tips Hulk off that it’s not really his dad. Marlo’s brothers come to get her and Rick tosses them out of the apartment. Red Skull has some evil visitors over to tell them about Project Piecemeal, but it’s escaped.

    Incredible Hulk #404
    By Peter David, Gary Frank, and Cam Smith
    Published April 1993

    Hulk and Juggernaut beat up the C-list Avengers with Mentallo making Hulk think Juggernaut is his father. But Juggernaut keeps telling Hulk what a good job he’s doing and how proud he is, which tips Hulk off that it’s not really his dad.

    Marlo’s brothers come to get her and Rick tosses them out of the apartment.

    Red Skull has some evil visitors over to tell them about Project Piecemeal, but it’s escaped.

     

  3. 16 Jun


    Incredible Hulk #403 By Peter David, Gary Frank, and Cam Smith Published March 1993 Hulk has been taken prisoner by Red Skull. Using some kind of mind control helmet, Mentallo is supposed to wear down Hulk and get him to join Red Skull’s evil efforts. Mentallo tries making Hulk believe he’s being attacked by all his enemies at once, but that only makes Hulk more defiant. Instead, Mentallo taps into Bruce Banner’s past with his father. Hulk relives watching young Bruce lie on the stand during his father’s murder trial. Doc Samson comes to help Rick with Marlo and is surprised when Rick admits to killing Farnoq Dahn. And Juggernaut is walking down a hallway in Red Skull’s secret headquarters when a huge, clawed, muscular, grey arm busts through a door labelled “Project Piecemeal” and tries to grab him. He punches the creature and yells at the scientists inside. Some group of Avengers (possibly the West Coast Avengers?) come to check out the logging situation that Hulk was investigating last issue. When they get there, Juggernaut attacks them, then reveals his partner, an overalls wearing Hulk who calls him sir.

    Incredible Hulk #403
    By Peter David, Gary Frank, and Cam Smith
    Published March 1993

    Hulk has been taken prisoner by Red Skull. Using some kind of mind control helmet, Mentallo is supposed to wear down Hulk and get him to join Red Skull’s evil efforts. Mentallo tries making Hulk believe he’s being attacked by all his enemies at once, but that only makes Hulk more defiant. Instead, Mentallo taps into Bruce Banner’s past with his father. Hulk relives watching young Bruce lie on the stand during his father’s murder trial.

    Doc Samson comes to help Rick with Marlo and is surprised when Rick admits to killing Farnoq Dahn. And Juggernaut is walking down a hallway in Red Skull’s secret headquarters when a huge, clawed, muscular, grey arm busts through a door labelled “Project Piecemeal” and tries to grab him. He punches the creature and yells at the scientists inside.

    Some group of Avengers (possibly the West Coast Avengers?) come to check out the logging situation that Hulk was investigating last issue. When they get there, Juggernaut attacks them, then reveals his partner, an overalls wearing Hulk who calls him sir.

     

  4. 15 Jun


    Incredible Hulk #402 By Peter David, Jan Duursema, and Mark Farmer Published February 1993 Hulk is introduced as the leader of the Pantheon and Achilles gets upset. Hulk takes a mission to stop logging in the rain forest and fights a logger who holds his own. Turns out the logger is Juggernaut and he’s working for Red Skull. Also, Rick is trying to get Marlo to do “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

    Incredible Hulk #402
    By Peter David, Jan Duursema, and Mark Farmer
    Published February 1993

    Hulk is introduced as the leader of the Pantheon and Achilles gets upset. Hulk takes a mission to stop logging in the rain forest and fights a logger who holds his own. Turns out the logger is Juggernaut and he’s working for Red Skull.

    Also, Rick is trying to get Marlo to do “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

     

  5. 14 Jun


    Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect #2 By Peter David and George Perez Published January 1993 Hulk and Maestro fight, but Maestro is stronger because of all the radiation he’s absorbed over the years. He breaks Hulk’s neck and takes him back to his palace. He tries to get Hulk to join him. He offers Hulk a gun to kill himself on the off chance it will destroy Maestro since it would cut off Hulk’s future. Hulk’s been playing up his injury and digging a tunnel for the rebels to invade the palace. Hulk uses the tunnel to get back to Rick’s hideout. Maestro follows and kills Rick, beats Hulk bloody, and follows Hulk’s trail of blood. He winds up stepping onto Dr. Doom’s time machine and is sent back in time to the original gamma bomb test where he’s blown to pieces and dies. Then Hulk and Rick Jones’s great granddaughter spread Rick’s ashes on Captain America’s shield and toss it as far as Hulk can.

    Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect #2
    By Peter David and George Perez
    Published January 1993

    Hulk and Maestro fight, but Maestro is stronger because of all the radiation he’s absorbed over the years. He breaks Hulk’s neck and takes him back to his palace. He tries to get Hulk to join him. He offers Hulk a gun to kill himself on the off chance it will destroy Maestro since it would cut off Hulk’s future.

    Hulk’s been playing up his injury and digging a tunnel for the rebels to invade the palace. Hulk uses the tunnel to get back to Rick’s hideout. Maestro follows and kills Rick, beats Hulk bloody, and follows Hulk’s trail of blood. He winds up stepping onto Dr. Doom’s time machine and is sent back in time to the original gamma bomb test where he’s blown to pieces and dies. Then Hulk and Rick Jones’s great granddaughter spread Rick’s ashes on Captain America’s shield and toss it as far as Hulk can.

     

  6. 14 Jun


    Incredible Hulk #401 By Peter David, Jan Duursema, and Brad Vancata Published January 1993 Omnibus, the gamma irradiated encyclopedia salesman from Middletown, takes over leadership of Freehold and has nefarious plans. Rick and Hulk bring Marlo home and freak out Betty. Paris learns of Atalanta and Achilles’s affair. Hulk gets called to the Mount where Agamemnon announces he’s leaving—as he does every fifty years or so—to reacquaint himself with humanity. He wants Hulk to be the leader of the Pantheon in his absence.

    Incredible Hulk #401
    By Peter David, Jan Duursema, and Brad Vancata
    Published January 1993

    Omnibus, the gamma irradiated encyclopedia salesman from Middletown, takes over leadership of Freehold and has nefarious plans. Rick and Hulk bring Marlo home and freak out Betty. Paris learns of Atalanta and Achilles’s affair. Hulk gets called to the Mount where Agamemnon announces he’s leaving—as he does every fifty years or so—to reacquaint himself with humanity. He wants Hulk to be the leader of the Pantheon in his absence.

     

  7. 13 Jun


    Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect By Peter David and George Perez Published December 1992 In the future, nuclear war has wiped out nearly all of civilization and most of the superheroes. The Hulk survived and rebuilt the world, but he also turned evil and started calling himself Maestro. So the rebels, led by old and decrepit Rick Jones, use Dr. Doom’s time machine to come back to 1992 and bring Hulk back with them. Maestro sends his forces into the rebels’ base, which features a collection of memorabilia from all the fallen heroes. They are cut down by a series of booby traps. Maestro strolls in and the two Dr. Banners face each other at last.

    Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect
    By Peter David and George Perez
    Published December 1992

    In the future, nuclear war has wiped out nearly all of civilization and most of the superheroes. The Hulk survived and rebuilt the world, but he also turned evil and started calling himself Maestro. So the rebels, led by old and decrepit Rick Jones, use Dr. Doom’s time machine to come back to 1992 and bring Hulk back with them.

    Maestro sends his forces into the rebels’ base, which features a collection of memorabilia from all the fallen heroes. They are cut down by a series of booby traps. Maestro strolls in and the two Dr. Banners face each other at last.

     

  8. 13 Jun


    Incredible Hulk #400 By Peter David, Jan Duursema, Chris Bachelo, and Mark Farmer Published December 1992 Agamemnon appears to Betty and asks her to go find Hulk and convince him not to give up on the Pantheon. She does and Hulk comes around to Agamemnon’s plan which was to double cross the Leader all along. Hulk leaps off to Freehold, Leader’s secret commune for victims of radiation that’s buried under a layer of ice somewhere in Canada. Rick Jones is at Freehold where Leader we learn that Redeemer is now the reanimated corpse of Thunderbolt Ross, which Leader stole 69 issues ago. However, Leader has a different plan for Marlo because he needs to revive both her body and her soul. Fortunately, that priest who was irradiated back in Middletown now has an ability to heal souls. As they begin the process to bring Marlo back to life, Hydra attacks. Then Hulk shows up to destroy the place, but winds up fighting Hydra at Rick’s request. After mopping up all the Hydra forces, Hulk gets angry that Leader is manipulating him again—he also believes Leader is lying to Rick about being able to resurrect Marlo—and attacks the machinery that’s bring Marlo back. In the fight, Redeemer accidentally shoots the Leader, Hulk laughs maniacally while covered in Leaders blood to bring Delphi’s vision to reality, and Hulk smashes Redeemer’s hood to see zombie Thuderbolt Ross. Hulk trashes the whole place as the wounded Leader tries to climb into the resurrection chamber. Marlo comes out alive but is catatonic like Ross. As things calm down, Hulk realizes Leader really could bring people back from the dead and Rick realizes he’s condemned his girlfriend to something worse than death. Then there’s a reprint of the Leader’s first appearance, which included this panel, and a few pin ups, including one by Gary Frank, who will take over pencils in #403.

    Incredible Hulk #400
    By Peter David, Jan Duursema, Chris Bachelo, and Mark Farmer
    Published December 1992

    Agamemnon appears to Betty and asks her to go find Hulk and convince him not to give up on the Pantheon. She does and Hulk comes around to Agamemnon’s plan which was to double cross the Leader all along. Hulk leaps off to Freehold, Leader’s secret commune for victims of radiation that’s buried under a layer of ice somewhere in Canada.

    Rick Jones is at Freehold where Leader we learn that Redeemer is now the reanimated corpse of Thunderbolt Ross, which Leader stole 69 issues ago. However, Leader has a different plan for Marlo because he needs to revive both her body and her soul. Fortunately, that priest who was irradiated back in Middletown now has an ability to heal souls.

    As they begin the process to bring Marlo back to life, Hydra attacks. Then Hulk shows up to destroy the place, but winds up fighting Hydra at Rick’s request. After mopping up all the Hydra forces, Hulk gets angry that Leader is manipulating him again—he also believes Leader is lying to Rick about being able to resurrect Marlo—and attacks the machinery that’s bring Marlo back. In the fight, Redeemer accidentally shoots the Leader, Hulk laughs maniacally while covered in Leaders blood to bring Delphi’s vision to reality, and Hulk smashes Redeemer’s hood to see zombie Thuderbolt Ross.

    Hulk trashes the whole place as the wounded Leader tries to climb into the resurrection chamber. Marlo comes out alive but is catatonic like Ross. As things calm down, Hulk realizes Leader really could bring people back from the dead and Rick realizes he’s condemned his girlfriend to something worse than death.

    Then there’s a reprint of the Leader’s first appearance, which included this panel, and a few pin ups, including one by Gary Frank, who will take over pencils in #403.

     

  9. 12 Jun


    Incredible Hulk #399 By Peter David and Jan Duursema Published November 1992 Rick goes to Doctor Strange to see if he can bring Marlo back from the dead, but he can’t—though Rick makes a fairly convincing case that everyone in the room, including Strange’s manservant Wong has come back from the dead so it must not be a big deal. Rick goes to the Fantastic Four and Reed Richards can’t bring her back either. Hank Pym, likewise, has no solution. Hulk is moping around the remains of Gamma Base reflecting on his past there and flashing back to his leaving the Pantheon after Agamemnon agreed to help protect the Leader and his people against Hydra. The Leader transports into Rick’s apartment and has a heart to heart about Rick’s guilt and belief that Marlo’s death is karmic balance for his killing Farnoq Dahn in Trans-Sabal. Leader shares an empathic bond with Rick because of the radiation he sapped from Hulk Rick to turn him back into the Leader several years ago. He tells Rick he can bring Marlo back to life and as proof he has Redeemer remove his domed hood.

    Incredible Hulk #399
    By Peter David and Jan Duursema
    Published November 1992

    Rick goes to Doctor Strange to see if he can bring Marlo back from the dead, but he can’t—though Rick makes a fairly convincing case that everyone in the room, including Strange’s manservant Wong has come back from the dead so it must not be a big deal. Rick goes to the Fantastic Four and Reed Richards can’t bring her back either. Hank Pym, likewise, has no solution.

    Hulk is moping around the remains of Gamma Base reflecting on his past there and flashing back to his leaving the Pantheon after Agamemnon agreed to help protect the Leader and his people against Hydra.

    The Leader transports into Rick’s apartment and has a heart to heart about Rick’s guilt and belief that Marlo’s death is karmic balance for his killing Farnoq Dahn in Trans-Sabal. Leader shares an empathic bond with Rick because of the radiation he sapped from Hulk Rick to turn him back into the Leader several years ago. He tells Rick he can bring Marlo back to life and as proof he has Redeemer remove his domed hood.

     

  10. 11 Jun


    Incredible Hulk #398 By Peter David, Dale Keown, and Mark Farmer Published October 1992 As the fight outside rages on, Leader transmatter beams himself into talk to Agamemnon and they reach an agreement to cease hostilities. This doesn’t sit well with the Hulk. Back in Reno, Marlo and Betty swing in to see Rick’s mom, who has the TV cranked up to drown out Rick’s shouting from the basement. Marlo trips over and unplugs the cord to the TV and thinks she hears Rick, so Jackie stabs and kills her with the knife she was using to prepare lunch. She then fights with Betty, who winds up winning by whacking her with a fireplace poker.

    Incredible Hulk #398
    By Peter David, Dale Keown, and Mark Farmer
    Published October 1992

    As the fight outside rages on, Leader transmatter beams himself into talk to Agamemnon and they reach an agreement to cease hostilities. This doesn’t sit well with the Hulk.

    Back in Reno, Marlo and Betty swing in to see Rick’s mom, who has the TV cranked up to drown out Rick’s shouting from the basement. Marlo trips over and unplugs the cord to the TV and thinks she hears Rick, so Jackie stabs and kills her with the knife she was using to prepare lunch. She then fights with Betty, who winds up winning by whacking her with a fireplace poker.