The Incredible Hulk #62

The Incredible Hulk #62, Jan. '72

Written by Stan Lee and Illustrated by Herby Trimple

If you're familiar with Hulk 'Ish. #61 then you already know The Mandarin is at it again. By that I mean Stan Lee is at being racially insensitive toward our Asian friends to the east. This was 1978, Stan. 

Experts on last issue would also know that The mandarin has imprisoned the Hulk (Yeah, I know that's ridiculous) in a mass of quicksand Let's join our hero now. 

As the Mandarin will learn, trapping the Hulk never works out. You can only hope to contain him for a short while. But it's not for lack of trying. The Mandarin has contingency plans, however.

The mandarin seems to have the answer to containing the Hulk. Putting him in a glass cylinder. Clever. But wait there's more. We learn something new everyday.

And so The mandarin seems to have won for now. While Hulk dreams of smashing shit, Mandarin puts a mind control device on him. Let's hope he didn't draw sharpie penises on his face as well, for Mandarin's sake.

The Hulk wakes up groggy and teaches Mandarin's chains an important lesson. Don't be chained to the Hulk. Mandarin doesn't seem to be shitting his pants though.

Mandarin turns the Hulk into his personal fuck shit up monster and sets him loose. 

And so the Hulk goes off being his Hulk self. Is there no one who can stop the Mandarin and his Hulk slave?

Looks like it's up to S.H.I.E.L.D's own Nick Furry and his Comrade to save the day. Let the madness begin!

Never send a guy in red spandex to do a man's job. Furry does his best John Wayne impression and let's the mandarin have it. Only to be hit with the same gas the Hulk inhaled. 

The Hulk finally comes to his senses and the Mandarin will probably need a new pair of shorts in a few minutes.

I guess Tony was thinking ahead, but why was he shoving things into Furry's holster and why was Furry letting him? Also, why was he laughing. WHY!?

But then, before you forget this is a Hulk comic, the Hulk comes to send retribution Mandarin's way. 

This looks like the end for Nick Furry until the Hulk does his best Bodyguard impersonation.

The Hulk is unleashed while Nick and his comrade escape.

The Hulk finishes by being his bad-ass self.

The day is saved. Mandarin's whereabouts is unknown and the Hulk ponders his existence. A Somber ending.