{"id":4316,"date":"2022-08-02T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2022-07-10T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:08:31","slug":"782-return-of-the-less-incredible-hulk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/782-return-of-the-less-incredible-hulk\/","title":{"rendered":"782 &#8211; Return of the Less-Incredible Hulk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196012-return-of-the-hulk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196012-return-of-the-hulk.png\" alt=\"Xenmu, the Hulk returns in Journey into Mystery #66, December 1960\" class=\"wp-image-4317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196012-return-of-the-hulk.png 542w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196012-return-of-the-hulk-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Xenmu, the Hulk returns in Journey into Mystery #66, December 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I should have known by the ending of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/758-incredibly-not-the-hulk\/\">the first Xenmu story<\/a> back in July 1960 that he would return. In Journey into Mystery #66 (Dec 1960), he does this very thing &#8211; being the only &#8220;giant Marvel monster&#8221; to appear in the last couple months. Production trouble at Atlas\/Marvel? Or maybe a re-thinking of their strategy? (after all they would soon re-pivot to be a superhero-first comic book company in about a year)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, this time around, the Hulk manages to steer in asteroid into his spaceship-prison and bump him into landing on Earth. Mentally drained, he imprisons a small town to build him a reflector that can super-charge him again to mass-hypnotize the planet. Good ol&#8217; Joe Harper catches wind of the plan and goes to face off against the Hulk again. He brings a mirror and when the Hulk tries to hypnotize him, he ends up hypnotizing himself out of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the midst of all the world-building that DC is doing, it seems that Atlas continues to try to forge its own path. Even an attempt to bring back a recurring character in one of its anthologies is put to a quick end, with Joe Harper not even being named in this story :-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have known by the ending of the first Xenmu story back in July 1960 that he would return. In Journey into Mystery #66 (Dec 1960), he does this very thing &#8211; being the only &#8220;giant Marvel monster&#8221; to appear in the last couple months. Production trouble at Atlas\/Marvel? Or maybe a re-thinking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[654,90,647,616,660],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-654","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-monsters","tag-the-hulk","tag-world-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}