publication date: January 1964

pencil: Jack Kirby

story: Stan Lee

inks: Paul Reinman

The Avengers seek out Hulk to prevent him from becoming a danger.
Iron Man contacts the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and the X-Men with his invention that projects a hologram, but no one can help them.
Rick Jones initially tries to protect Hulk, but when he loses control he is forced to call them.
Hulk manages to escape from the Avengers and is contacted by Sub-Mariner.
Namor offers him an alliance against the Avengers, to begin with, then against all of humanity.
Hulk accepts and they almost manage to get the better of the group of heroes.
When the exhausted Hulk returns to being Bruce Banner, Namor believes he has been betrayed and flees to the sea.

publication date: January 1964

pencil: Don Heck

story: Stan Lee

Mister Hyde plans the theft of a nuclear submarine, to be used as a pirate ship.
He kidnaps Jane Foster, to be used as a hostage and then made her queen.
Thor manages to foil his plan, but realizes that Jane loves Donald Blake, not Thor.

publication date: July 1964

pencil: Jack Kirby

story: Stan Lee

inks: Vince Colletta

New Asgard's Tale.
Odin accuses Balder of abandoning the battlefield and his companions.
Balder admits that he stopped to save a bird that fell from the nest and Odin decides to punish him.
He orders his warriors to try to kill him, but there is always something that prevents him (a hawk stops an arrow, a plant stops the spear).
Odin admits that he tested the hero, who from now on will be invincible, since he made all things promise never to harm him.

publication date: August 1964

pencil: Jack Kirby

story: Stan Lee

inks: Vince Colletta

New Asgard's Tale.
Loki is jealous of Balder and looks for a way to kill him.
He contacts Queen Norn (Karnilla) and forces her to reveal her weakness to him.
The mistletoe did not swear to Odin not to harm Balder.
Loki tries to hit Balder with a mistletoe dart, but Karmilla stops him, having herself sworn to Odin.