365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 100: Bruce Banner's T-Gun

What is...the T-Gun?!?


Panel from "Not All My Power Can Save Me!" in Tales to Astonish #75 (January 1966), script by Stan Lee, layouts by Jack Kirby, finishes by Mike Esposito, letters by Sam Rosen
Wow! Whatever it is, it's big. Oh, that's it! The "T" must stand for...titanic!

Anyway, in a twist (hey, the T must stand for...twist!), Bruce Banner's mysterious T-Gun is used to target (hey, the T must stand for...target!)...the Incredible Hulk! Hey, the T must stand for...THE!


Here comes the countdown! Five! Four! Three! Hey, the T must stand for...three! Two! Hey, the T (gets strangled off camera)


YES, GENERAL ROSS, SHOOT AN UNKNOWN GUN DIRECTLY AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

And that (hey!...), ladies and gentlemen, is the last anyone ever saw of the Incredible Hulk. The End! (Hey!...)


And so, along with the Hulk, Washington DC was destroyed, and no one ever saw it again.


Well, seeing as the Hulk has been sent through time to the future and displaced in in time, we'll never be able to know what the "T" stands for in this time-shooting gun that moved Hulk forward in time. Just as a guess, I think that the "T" must stand for...TALES TO ASTONISH!

Or, possibly, television cartoon!


Marvel Super Heroes: The Incredible Hulk in "Terror of the T Gun" (November 23, 1966)

Ta-Ta!