- ISBN13: 9780785123743
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Product Description
Caught in the heart of a nuclear explosion, victim of gamma radiation gone wild Dr. Robert Bruce Banner now finds himself transformed during the times of stress into the dark personification of his repressed rage and fury: the Incredible Hulk, the most powerful man-like creature ever to walk the face of the earth! Relive his earliest adventures here! Collects HULK #1-6 and TALES TO ASTONISH #60-91…. More >>
Essential Incredible Hulk, Vol. 1
after reading some of the other Hulk books like boling point, Abominal,Ground zero, and Dogs of war I saw this at a book store
and thought the hulk in his early dayes are proboly no diffrent from the books I read so I bought it. Big mistake. The green hulk does talk and like a complete idiot too. Was that freak the Leader? I don’t think so. Bruce Banners now dead wife Betty acted
like a idiot. One star becouse The Hulk and Abomination have a cool fight in this but it’s not even that good. If you are looking for somethin were the hulk and Abomination fight get Abominal, In that Bruce meet’s the Abomination’s aboused wife. Better yet, get the Tv series. Rating: 1 / 5
this has Hulks first apperance in Tales to asonish with the original stories. It also tells ofth first 6 of Hulks own series. It suffers little to the newspaper like paper Rating: 4 / 5
A good collection that includes the first Incredible Hulk series (issues 1-6 from 1962) and the Hulk stories from Tales To Astonish 60-91, but should have included more. There was a lot that happened between the original Hulk series and TTA, and the character evolved in those stories. They should have included Fantastic Four #12, 25, 26; Avengers 1-3,5; Amazing Spider-Man #14, Journey Into Mystery (Thor) #112, and even Astonish #59 (guest appearance with Giant-Man). Possibly others? Rating: 4 / 5
if you are a fan of the hulk, you can’t pass this one up. there isn’t a dvd-rom collection of the hulk yet, so unless you want to pay big bucks for the masterworks collections (which are a lot shorter) this is the way to go. i don’t mind it anyway, it’s kind of nice just to see the king kirby’s pencilwork without color. lee and kirby= the greatest team ever in comics.
Rating: 5 / 5
Don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry…. never spoken in this volume, just for the hard of understanding. I read Marvel’s superhero comics when I was a kid and they were wonderful. The Hulk was never a favourite of mine and so when I bought this to reminisce I found I did not know literally any of the stories although I had long known the origins of this character.
I discover now that the Hulk was discontinued after six issues, and then re-born in Tales to Astonish, before once more (and after this collection) meriting his own dedicated book. These early tales do fall a little short of the later standards this series achieved but they are genuinely essential for all the fabulous ingredients in the Hulk’s basic family melodrama. To wit: the hurrumphing Thunderbolt Ross (a loud noise in trousers, a general of very little brain); the rather unrealised love interest, his daughter Betty; the kid who caused it all and would not go away Rick Jones; and the eventual introduction of Bruce Banner’s love rival the tortured soul of Major Glen Talbot.
The scripts are fascinating. Stan Lee didn’t bother to consult his previous editions and wrote from memory so he managed to mis-remember details such as what triggered the Hulk to change (this was intially night and day but evolves throughout so that ultimately he can more or less do it when he sneezes too hard) and the art work was handed around like a piping hot jacket potato so the variability in it is sometimes hilarious – the Hulk would have a hard time matching up to his passport photo if it were not for the fact he is big and green. Lee even spells Talbot’s name differently at times.
But it’s such good fun and its where it all began – the setting works well intially, on the isolated military testing base, but ultimately comes to suffocate the plot lines and restrict the development of the character who is hardly a menace to mankind if all he ever does is prowl the desert. The best way to deal with the Hulk militarily would have been to ignore him completely. Ah well, it’s only fiction. Thin on super villains to give him a fight (with the exception at close of the Abomination) but not on kitchen sink drama, this volume is truly essential even if it’s one of the less coherent starts in life for a giant Marvel character. Read it and enjoy!
Rating: 3 / 5