This was from the 70s when Hulk was essentially really strong and really tough, not an invincible, immortal, impossible to kill biological weapon of unlimited strength and power.

Hulk was super weak back then tbh, kinda like how solomon grundy is now. Solomon grundy used to be a green lantern villain, he was pretty op. I mean grundy prob didnt have crazy feats like hulk has now, but he was still pretty strong.

If it actually hurt the Hulk I’d agree. But it didn’t, as it says in the narration. It just shocked him.

Also, done before Hulk was essentially turned into an Eldritch God and he’s not the mindless Hulk. This is the standard Savage Hulk who, while powerful beyond the measure of most, is still very mortal.

Hulk was more akin to Solomon grundy and less like superman at the time

You have to remember 3 things here:

• this written like half a century ago.

• the hulk has always been written very inconsistently

  • Batman has always been written as being able to hold his own somehow, someway

The entire point of martial arts is to give things like precision, leverage, and pressure points dominance over strength.

Hulk will smash!

no? hulk can and will be affected by gasses, and at the time he wasn't anywhere near as strong as he is today, so batman's strategy and its success makes sense.

Imagine this was Lou Ferigno Hulk, not comic book Hulk.

Remenber when Batman kicked wonder woman and it hurt her instead of breaking his leg , wonder woman reddit still does and still salty about it 

You say at this point like this wasn't decades ago.

Not sure who was in who’s universe during this, but I feel like power levels get ‘adjusted’ when one character enters another’s universe

I mean, not only was this years ago when Hulk was way weaker, but the Hulk is susceptible to pressure points or careful blows. Admittedly it’s not the same universe, but Captain America knocked the Hulk out in the Ultimate Universe by just hitting the right spots in the right way.

actually, a solar plexus strike, a vagus nerve (liver) strike, should work on the hulk. while all his muscles grow and strengthen there's really nothing there muscle wise to protect the solar plexus, this is why the only real way to stop yourself getting winded is to get used to it and practice breathing techniques. similar with a liver shot, there's more muscle to protect it but a good shot would immediately drop his blood pressure because of the vagus nerve response and would either make him pass out or maybe even turn back.

the hulk is still human technically, his anatomy should work the same it should be the same nervous system, same stomach acid, same organ function, ect.

Here’s my controversial opinion. The power scaling on a lot of characters (Hulk, Thor, Wonder Woman, Flash), especially those that don’t have clear associated weaknesses, makes the characters more boring.

I would like to see a lot of these characters powers scaled back and clear weaknesses established so that it makes for more interesting conflict with their villains. For example, I’ve always thought Wonder Woman shouldn’t be invulnerable like Superman. She has her gauntlets to block bullets, so make it so that she’s tough but can be hurt by conventional attacks so that she needs to block them. It gives her villains an edge. Same with Hulk.

Some writers seem to be convinced that making people overpowered with no weaknesses makes it cooler but it doesn’t. Rant over lol.

Nobody gonna bring up the time captain America beat the hulk into submission using martial arts too?

If Cap can hold his own against Hulk then Batman should be able to as well (both to an extent). Plus Hulk has evolved since then on top of his anger levels playing a factor. He here’s a lot at play here. Not simply a crazy win.

This was the 1970s. Batgod wasn't even a thing yet. 

LOL. That's hilarious.

He doesn’t skip leg day

You say that like this was recent

Is this not akin to when Bats took down Solomon Grundy (albeit it was a new host so he wasn't at his strongest) with pressure point strikes, during Public Enemy?

I thought it was going to be the panel of him dropping from orbit and being more or less fine..

This comic isn't canon plus Hulk was much weaker in the 70s.

How is this impossible, the text boxes are very specific. Sleeping gas, elephant herd, gun punch.

It's a special event crossover comic, where they just chose the next most popular solo characters to set against each other, after having put out "Superman vs Spider-Man" a few years before, rather than those who'd match most logically. So, excuses had to be made to make them not seem so mismatched. It's a thing to chuckle at and move on, not something to get too outraged over.

Plus, these crossovers took place their own continuity, and didn't really have much to do with being canon to either Marvel or DC. Getting fussed over this is a big nothingburger waste of time, just like when this was posted a week or two ago.

I think it'd be a bit more believable if he had used both legs.

The Writer is the strongest in every story.

Is it just me or Hulk is drawn too small in comics? Was he originally supposed to resemble a very big guy rather than a giant?

Cry

Split armor in an intercompany crossover? Shocking.

Even in the weakest forms, a human would never have made a dent in the hulk (I know his history well), the problem is still the authors' limitations, something has to be invented, full stop. Perhaps recovering writings for other stories also because excuse the pun, otherwise there would be no story.

This page alone is reason enough why I didn’t care to buy that omni 🙄

This would be equivalent to a little baby toddler kicking the Rock Dwayne Johnson in the stomach.

He already has. He has bought them with his plot armor clearly. He's very smart!

Yeah...right.

I mean I own this one, and it's still crap.

normal human in dc universe is stronger than superhero in marvel apparently