Thanks for the efforts. However, I'm 100% sure there was mention of the Leader's death in another Marvel book post TTA 74. I bought the whole run of TTA issues from the 60's to the 80's when I was in elementary school. I have all of them now too, plus the FF Annual #3 wedding issue. That saga from TTA #69-74 was one of the best story lines I've ever read. The military shot Bruce Banner in the head and he supposedly died on the scene. But Rick Jones quickly stole the body, took it to the lab and exposed it to intense gamma radiation. Sure enough Banner revived as the Hulk. The Hulk's strength prevented the bullet wound from killing him. But he could never turn back into Bruce Banner or he would die immediately from the bullet in the brain. The other effect was that the Hulk now mysteriously possessed Banner's intellect. Every couple days he would bath himself in gamma radiation to prevent the change back to human form. When the military destroyed his lab and equipment, the Leader intervened and transported Hulk to his orbiting laboratory. Gamma emanations from the Leader's own body kept Hulk from changing back to Banner. With the Hulk sedated, the Leader performed a full examination of his body and noticed the bullet in his skull. The Hulk was saved because the Leader had created an advanced laser device that disintegrated the slug without damaging any other brain tissue. He said the wound would otherwise have been fatal as no surgeon on earth could successfully remove it. So the aura of death surrounding Hulk from TTA 69-73 was finally removed. I actually own the original art page by Jack Kirby and Bob Powell from TTA 73 where the Leader informs the now awake and alert Hulk that he'll never have worry about the bullet in his head again. Of course the Leader wants immediate payback from the Hulk for his life saving efforts which manifests itself in TTA 74. That's the 1965 issue where the Leader supposedly died and was not heard from again till Incredible Hulk 115 some four years later in 1969. That whole six issue TTA saga was absolutely magnificent in writing and artwork!