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The Incredible Hulk                          Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket
Marvel Fireside Hardcover Edition
Writer: Stan Lee
Artists: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Bob Powell & Gil Kane
Inkers: Dick Ayers, Paul Reinman, George Bell, Vince Colletta, Frank Ray & Mickey Demeo
Letterers: Artie Simek & Sam Rosen
Editor: Stan Lee
Dust Jacket Cover by: Bob Larkin

The most powerful mortal ever to walk the earth lashes out! The mighty Marvel Origins series continues with stirring sagas of a frail physicist, Dr. Bruce Banner, caught in the heart of a nuclear explosion, a victim of gamma radiation gone wild, who in times of stress now finds himself transformed into seven feet, one thousand pounds of unfettered fury! Allow yourself to stand in awe of the man-brute’s matchless might – but beware The Incredible Hulk!

From the wizards at Marvel Comics come the mightiest adventures zof the Incredible Hulk, the best-loved monster of all comicdom, who is fast making his way into new hearts as a TV superstar. The further fantastic feats of the fearsome one take up where Origins of Marvel Comics leaves off – right up front, with only one tremulous teenager able to control the raging behemoth who has terrified a nation!

And from the Grand Wiz and Creator himself – Stan Lee – come the words that take the cautious, gentle – but courageous – Dr. Bruce Banner through all of his incarnations and the Incredibe Hulk through his most horrifying hazards and towering triumphs.

Here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about this peerless powerhouse – but were too panicked to ask! From early mental muddlement to his greatest challenges to the artists who’ve made him what he is today – Marvel’s supreme sorcerers of fabulous fantasy bring you the very best of The Incredible Hulk.

How do you get the whole world to fall in love with a gargantuan, green-skinned, mammoth monster-man? Who knows what madness lurks in the mind of a man who’s one creature under ordinary circumstances – and another under stress? Stan Lee knows – and tells all.

The Incredible Hulk Marvel Fireside Hardcover contains:“Banished to Outer Space”   11 pages
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Letterer: Artie Simek

The military captures Rick and Ross convinces him that they need the Hulk to test a new experimental rocket for national security. Rick tricks the jade giant into the capsule but once it is shot into space, he realizes that Ross deceived him to get rid of his foe. Rick overrides the programming and returns the rocket to earth but not before Banner (he transformed back to his human form when the rocket came into view of the sun) is doused with further radiation. The Hulk is now unable to revert to his human form and is under Rick’s control but only while Rick remains awake.

Reprints The Incredible Hulk (September 1962) Issue #3.  Marvel Comics
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“The Origin of The Hulk”   3 pages
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Letterer: Sam Rosen

The origin story of how Dr. Bruce Banner became the Incredible Hulk.

Reprints The Incredible Hulk (September 1962) Issue #3.  Marvel Comics

“The Ringmaster”  10 pages
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Letterer: Artie Simek

Rick takes a break from his Hulk-sitting duties and goes to the circus. Unfortunately, he picks one run by a hypnotic criminal who mesmerizes his audience and then robs them. When the Hulk arrives to bail out his buddy, he is captured and made part of the act thanks to the fact that Rick is in thrall and cannot give him any commands. Rick returns with the FBI and the Hulk finds himself free to kick some circus tail.

Reprints The Incredible Hulk (September 1962) Issue #3.  Marvel Comics
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“The Incredible Hulk”   23 pages
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Letterer: Artie Simek

Part 1

General Ross asks the Fantastic Four “to find and destroy the Hulk”. His base was victim of a saboteur and Hulk is the only suspect.

Part 2 Mission: Stop the Hulk!

The Fantastic Four goes to a briefing at the base in New-Mexico; There, they meet Bruce Banner and his assistant, Karl Kort, to discuss how to stop the Hulk.

Part 3 Who Is the Wrecker?

Rick Jones identifies Karl Kort as the saboteur.

Part 4 The Hulk at Last!

Karl Kort brings Rick in caves where Hulk and the Fantastic Four are searching for him.

Reprints Fantastic Four (March 1963) Issue #12.  Marvel Comics
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“The Avengers Meet… Sub-Mariner!”   25 pages
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Paul Reinman
Letterer: Sam Rosen

After he left them, the Avengers feel responsible for the damages that the Hulk may cause; They start a search for him and find him. When they start to battle, the Sub-Mariner joins the Hulk. Roster includes Thor, Giant-Man, Wasp, and Iron Man. Guest appearances by the Hulk, Rick Jones, the Sub-Mariner, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the original X-Men, Odin, and miscellaneous Asgardians.

Reprints The Avengers (January 1964) Issue #3.  Marvel Comics
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“The Incredible Hulk”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: George Roussos
Letterer: Sam Rosen

Bruce creates an indestructible robot which is able to withstand the power of a nuclear blast but the stress of completing it on schedule causes him to transform into the Hulk and he leaves this massive weapon of awesome power unattended. A foreign spy who has been hanging around jumps into the robot and takes off. The Hulk tries to stop the robot but can’t and once he is worn out from the battle, he transforms back into Banner. Found lying in the desert by Ross and Betty, Bruce vows to build a bigger and better robot to take down the first one.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (October 1964) Issue #60.  Marvel Comics
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“Captured at Last!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: George Roussos
Letterer: Sam Rosen

The Hulk takes on the indestructible Banner created robot and, in one of the more dubious plot devices in comics, succeeds in kicking him down a bottomless hole when he realizes that he cannot beat the machine. Glenn Talbot arrives on gamma base sent by the Pentagon to keep an eye on the suspicious activity of Bruce Banner. Glenn decides that keeping an eye on Betty seems like a good idea as well. The Hulk is felled while saving Gamma Base from a missile and Ross captures him in a special restraint built by Bruce Banner based on a design by Tony Stark.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (November 1964) Issue #61.  Marvel Comics
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“Enter…the Chameleon!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: George Roussos
Letterer: Sam Rosen

The Hulk is captured in unbreakable restraints but slips through them when he turns back into Banner. Hearing that his buddy has been captured, Rick leaves Cap’s side to go help his original super pal. The mysterious Leader sends the Chameleon to gamma base to find out what happened to an agent who didn’t report back in (probably because he ended up falling down a hole in a robot suit last ish). Talbot and Banner begin their less than friendly rivalry. The Chameleon impersonates Banner and tries to steal a gamma grenade using Betty as a hostage, but the Hulk thwarts his plans.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (December 1964) Issue #62.  Marvel Comics
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A Titan Rides the Train!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: George Roussos
Letterer: Sam Rosen

The Leader ponders his origins as he prepares to send his powerful Humanoid to confront the Hulk. Although he is under suspicion for being in collusin with the Hulk, Banner is sent by train to escort one of his nuclear devices with Talbot keeping a close eye on him. The Humanoid attacks the train and Hulk fights the creature off. The nuclear device falls off the train in the skirmish and when Talbot goes to retrieve it, he finds Banner next to it in nothing but a pair of ripped pants. Bruce is jailed as a traitor.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (January 1965) Issue #63.  Marvel Comics
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“The Horde of Humanoids!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: George Roussos
Letterer: Artie Simek

Banner has been jailed as a traitor and is popping tranquilizers to keep himself from turning into the Hulk. Rick goes right to the commander in chief to tell the prez Banner’s secret and to ask for his release. Much to Talbot’s chagrin, the president orders Bruce’s release and the two are sent to Astra Island to oversee testing of Banner’s absorbatron which has the power to soak up a nuclear blast. Figuring that one Humanoid was not enough, the Leader sends a horde of them to Astra where they battle with the Hulk.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (February 1965) Issue #64.  Marvel Comics
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“On the Rampage Against the Reds!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: Dick Ayers
Letterer: Sam Rosen

In a pitched battle with the Humanoids, the Hulk and his foes fall into the ocean where the jade giant transforms back into Banner and is promptly captured by a Russian sub. Bruce is told he will be forced to work for the commies but instead he turns back into the Hulk and escapes. The Russians chase him down with a proton gun.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (March 1965) Issue #65.  Marvel Comics
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“The Power of Doctor Banner!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: Vince Colletta
Letterer: Artie Simek

The Hulk escapes from his Russian captors with a fellow fugitive who gives his life to save the jade giant from a blast from the powerful proton gun. Angry at the death of his friend, Hulk decides to take his fight to the commies.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (April 1965) Issue #66.  Marvel Comics
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“Where Strides the Behemoth!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: Frank Giacoia (credited as Frank Ray)
Letterer: Artie Simek

The Hulk beats on the Russians bad enough that when he decides to leap away, they don’t try to stop him. Jumping all the way to the Himalayas, the Hulk is finally tired out and transforms to Banner just in time to be menaced by a local bandit chieftain. Talbot catches up with Bruce in this hairy predicament and when their captors are attacked by a rival band of raiders, Bruce and Glenn fall off a cliff to their death?

Reprints Tales to Astonish (May 1965) Issue #67.  Marvel Comics
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“Back from the Dead!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: Mike Esposito (credited as Mickey Demeo)
Letterer: Artie Simek

Saving Talbot and himself from plunging to their deaths, the Hulk decides he is tired of world travel and leaps home. Waking up in gamma base, Bruce is once again jailed as a traitor and the president once again sets him free (Rick told the commander in chief the secret of the Hulk a few issues ago). Banner and Talbot are once again sent to Astra Island to continue a test of the absorbatron but the Leader sends an army of Humanoids who finally succeed in capturing the Hulk.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (June 1965) Issue #68.  Marvel Comics
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“Trapped in the Lair of the Leader!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Artist: Steve Ditko
Inker: Mike Esposito (credited as Mickey Demeo)
Letterer: Artie Simek

The Leader makes off with the Hulk and the absorbatron but the jade giant ends up destroying the machine to keep it out of the Leader’s hands. Convinced that Banner is still a traitor and despite his orders, Talbot authorizes his men to use deadly force and Bruce is killed by a bullet through the head.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (July 1965) Issue #69.  Marvel Comics
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“To Live Again!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Mike Esposito (credited as Mickey Demeo)
Letterer: Artie Simek

Dragging his dead buddy to their old underground complex, Rick uses the gamma machine on Bruce, thus turning him into the Hulk and saving his life. The Hulk once again has the intellect of Banner, but he has to continue to use the ray machine every 48 hours to keep himself from turning into his alter ego as he still has a bullet lodged in his head. Talbot makes a bid for Betty now that his archrival has been killed in disgrace. The Leader sends a giant Humanoid to attack gamma base and the Hulk gets involved in the fight.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (August 1965) Issue #70.  Marvel Comics
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“Like a Beast at Bay!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Mike Esposito (credited as Mickey Demeo)
Letterer: Artie Simek

The Hulk and Rick barely make it out of the blast radius as Ross fires the giant “Sunday Punch” missile at the Leader’s giant Humanoid bringing the massive robot down. The pair decide to hide in their underground cave but are spotted by military planes as they enter. Ross and Talbot attack, threatening the underground complex and Bruce’s gamma machine. The Hulk pushes Rick out to safety just as the Leader appears and tells the Jade Giant, he will save him from his sticky predicament if only he agrees to serve the big brained bad guy.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #71 (September 1965)
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“Within the Monster Dwells a Man!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Mike Esposito (credited as Mickey Demeo)
Letterer: Sam Rosen

The Hulk finally agrees to follow the Leader and the big brained one teleports him out just as Ross destroys Banner’s old underground complex. The Leader and the Hulk get to know each other a little better but the jade giant struggles with trying not to change back to Banner as he is still plagued with a bullet in his head that would kill his alter ego.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (October 1965) Issue #72.  Marvel Comics
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“Another World, Another Foe!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Artists: Jack Kirby & Bob Powell
Inker: Mike Esposito
Letterer: Artie Simek

Discovering the bullet that is lodged in the Hulk’s brain, the Leader dissolves it with a laser and bathes our hero with gamma rays to give him strength. The Hulk still has Banner’s mind but can no longer transform into human form thanks to the extra blast of radiation. Indebted to the Leader for saving his life, the Hulk agrees to be teleported to the Watcher’s planet where he has been commanded to steal the “ultimate machine” but finds that said machine is also sought by the most powerful creature in the galaxy.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (November 1965) Issue #73.  Marvel Comics
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“The Wisdom of the Watcher!”   10 pages
Writers: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Mike Esposito (credited as Mickey Demeo)
Letterer: Sam Rosen

The Hulk fights the baddest alien in the galaxy over the Watcher’s ultimate machine. After the battle, the Watcher allows Hulk to take it and he is teleported back to the Leader’s lair. The Leader tries to use the machine which dispenses all of the Watcher’s collected knowledge but even his big brain can’t handle it and the strain kills him.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (December 1965) Issue #74.  Marvel Comics
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“Boomerang and the Brute!”   10 pages
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Gil Kane
Inker: Gil Kane
Letterer: Sam Rosen

Since they have discovered that the Hulk is not the total villain he has been painted to be, the president tells Ross to pardon him if he thinks the threat is over. Of course, Boomerang picks that exact moment to secretly enrage the jade giant, causing him to go on another rampage and causing Ross to still see him as a menace. Hulk fights the new and improved (but still fashion-impaired) Boomerang.

Reprints Tales to Astonish (February 1967) Issue #88.  Marvel Comics
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“Epilogue”   1 page
Writer: Stan Lee
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Hardcover reprints/collects:
The Incredible Hulk (September 1962) Issue #3. Marvel Comics
Fantastic Four (March 1963) Issue #12. Marvel Comics
The Avengers (January 1964) Issue #3. Marvel Comics
Tales to Astonish (October 1964 – December 1965) Issues #60-74. Marvel Comics
Tales to Astonish (February 1967) Issue #88. Marvel Comics

Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket is bagged and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: 1978
Format: FC, 253 pages, HC/DJ, 11″ x 8.5″
ISBN-10: 0671242695
ISBN-13: 9780671242695

Collectible Entertainment note: Hardcover is in Fine condition. (damage/tear to bottom of spine >> see 11th scan). Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition. (wear/tear >> see scans #1-8) stored in a crinkled Brodart book cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Overall… Very Nice Rare Hardcover!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Incredible Hulk and/or Stan Lee collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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