Issue(s): Hulk #187, Hulk #188
Published Date: May-Jun 75
Title: "There's a Gremlin in the works!" / "Mind over mayhem!"
Credits:
Len Wein - Writer
Herb Trimpe - Penciler
Joe Staton - Inker

Review/plot:
A group of SHIELD and army agents fly into Soviet territory to rescue Glenn Talbot. Bruce Banner, recently cured of being the Hulk, stows away on their plane. Banner of course Hulks out as their plane is attacked, and the Hulk finds himself in the middle of Siberia for no good reason. Talbot is being held by the Gremlin, the son of the Gargoyle that appeared in the very first issue of the Hulk.

As the Hulk rampages around the Russian base (the Gremlin actually captures the Hulk for a while and tries to brainwash him, but the Hulk is so dumb he is resistant to mind control), the SHIELD team rescue Glenn - or at least Glenn's body. It turns out that his mind has been switched with a Soviet operative named Gregory Kronski.

Clay Quartermain leads the SHIELD team, and they are maintaining his permanent grin expression from his earlier appearances.

The team eventually gets out with Talbot's mindless body, but Hulk is stuck behind fighting a rhyming triceratops/dog creature...

...and is seemingly killed when SHIELD blows up the base.

Silly story.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: Hulk #184-193 take place between Giant-Size Defenders #3-4. Banner has been at Hulkbuster Base since the end of the last arc. Fourteen hours as said to have passed.

References:

• SHIELD agent Clay Quartermain first appeared in Strange Tales #163.
  
• The Hulk faced the Gremlin previously in Hulk #163.
  
• The Gremlin's father the Gargoyle appeared in Hulk #1.

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: N/A

"Droog" is the name given to the violent young punks in the novel/film "A Clockwork Orange".

It derives from the Russian word for friend, "drug" (pronounced droog).

It's a little like Gremlin naming his pet triceratops "Buddy."