Sensational She-Hulk #31 Sep 1991
Interrupted Melody
She-Hulk wakes up from a bad dream (issues 9-30) and
realizing how late it is by reading the legal text at the bottom of the first page,
rushes to get ready, with a convenient white box provided by Byrne to keep the book approved by the Comics Code.
She also asks him to give her the “fake McFarlane layouts” he’s using in
Namor and
flies off to pick up Louise Mason in her flying green car for a trip to sunny Florida.
Meanwhile a jet transporting a disgraced rock star is caught in a bad storm and tries to avoid crashing into a mountain,
but fails when it seems that the mountain moves to intercept them. She-Hulk and Louise hear the report
and detour to investigate the mysterious moving mountain, which has vanished from the crash site.
A scientist on the scene named Bob Robertson claims that it was the work of Spragg, the Living Hill.
He relates how he came across Spragg many years ago in Transylvania, after he had enslaved a small village in order to
build a machine to increase his mental powers. Spragg was an evil member of a race of alien spores that had become trapped
in the forming Earth and developed Mental powers that they used to create earthquakes. Bob Robertson was immune to Spragg’s
powers because of the mining helmet he was wearing, and turned the machine into a rocket which sent Spragg into space.
He discovered that Spragg had vaporized upon re-entry into the atmosphere
and became a force responsible for unexplained natural disasters.
Using a small device, Bob Robertson triggers the Spragg effect, inadvertantly causing a ridge of rock to endanger a nearby town.
She-Hulk drops from her flying car onto the front of the ridge and places a device to stop the ridge in its tracks.
However, the sudden stop sends her falling into a huge hole in the Earth that has opened up where the front of the ridge had been.
Script and pencils by John Byrne,
inks by Keith Williams