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"Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life!"

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Incredible Hulk Vol 1 #285
July, 1983

Editor-in-Chief

James Shooter

Cover Artists

Ron Wilson, Joe Sinnott

Writers

Bill Mantlo

Pencilers

Sal Buscema

Inkers

Chic Stone

Colourists

Bob Sharen

Letterers

Jim Novak

Editors

Al Milgrom

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I remember the horror of Zzax's hunger! When he sits down to supper, there's nothing left of the human beings on which he feeds! So Zzzax must not feed! This time the Living Dynamo goes hungry!

-- The Hulk

Appearing in "Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life!"

Featured Characters:

• Hulk (Bruce Banner)

Supporting Characters:

• Bereet
• Rick Jones
• Scott Lang

Villains:

• Zzzax

Other Characters:

• Stark Industries employees

Locations:

• New York

• New York City
• Northwind Observatory (First appearance)

Items:

• Gamma Scope (First appearance)
• Soulstar Gamma Core

Vehicles:

• None
  
  

Synopsis for "Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life!"

Bruce Banner makes a personal recording of his memoirs reflecting upon the life history of his time as the savage Hulk. Concluding his report, he goes outside to oversee the progress of his latest project, Northwind Observatory. He has hired Stark Industries to construct the observatory and engineer Scott Lang is present as foreman. Lang asks Bruce about what it is like being a hero, but Banner merely wishes to devote his life to science now, not heroism.

The construction crew installs a gamma-powered core into the facility, but Banner realizes too late, that this is the same device that was once used by Soulstar Industries to harness the power of Zzzax. As the couplings are connected, an energy surge sweeps across the cables and Zzzax is reborn.

Bruce transforms into the Hulk and fights him, but his brute strength has little effect against the "living dynamo". Rather, it is the intellect of Bruce Banner that wins the day. Applying his knowledge of science, the Hulk creates a circuit that destabilizes Zzzax's form, sending his atoms back into outer space.

In New York, dozens of people gather about a movie theater to view the premiere of "The Life and Times of the Incredible Hulk". Rick Jones happens to pass the theater and sees the project's director, Bereet, exiting a limousine. Rick chastises Bereet for capitalizing on the Hulk's newfound fame, but Bereet retorts that Rick has been using his guilt over the Hulk for years to define him as a person.

Notes

• Key points of the Hulk's life are recapped in flashback including his origin and his tenure with both the Avengers and the Defenders. Flashbacks contain cameo appearances by the following characters (in order of appearance): Bruce Banner, Igor Starsky, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Betty Ross, Rick Jones, the Avengers (Iron Man (Tony Stark), Thor, Ant-Man (Henry Pym), Janet van Dyne (Earth-616)), the Sub-Mariner, the Leader, the Leader's Humanoids, the U-Foes (Ironclad, Vapor, Vector and X-Ray), the Defenders (Gargoyle (Isaac Christians), Hulk (Bruce Banner), Valkyrie, Beast (Hank McCoy), Son of Satan, Doctor Strange, Hellcat), Doc Samson, Captain America (Steve Rogers), Glenn Talbot, the Abomination (Emil Blonsky), She-Hulk, Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), and Hawkeye (Clint Barton).

• Bereet appeared last in Incredible Hulk #282. She appears next in Incredible Hulk #287.

• Scott Lang appeared last in Avengers (Volume 1) #229. He appears next in Rom #58.

• Zzzax appeared last in Power Man #47. He appears next in West Coast Avengers (Volume 2) #12.

Trivia

• Scott Lang is not only an employee of Stark Industries, but he is also the super-hero known as Ant-Man.
  
  

Related Articles

• Hulk image gallery
• Hulk chronology page
• Hulk quotes page
• Scott Lang chronology page
• Zzzax chronology page

See Also

• Discuss Incredible Hulk Vol 1 285 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Incredible Hulk series

Recommended Reading

• Incredible Hulk (Volume 1)
• Incredible Hulk (Volume 2)
• Defenders (Volume 1)
• Defenders (Volume 2)
• Rampaging Hulk (Volume 1)
• Rampaging Hulk (Volume 2)
• Tales to Astonish (Volume 1)

Links and References

• Incredible Hulk profile at Wikipedia
• Incredible Hulk profile at Marvel Universe
• Incredible Hulk profile at Toonopedia
• Incredible Hulk series index at the Grand Comics Database
• Incredible Hulk series index at CBDB
• Incredible Hulk series index at Comicbookdb.com
• Hulk Library