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Marvel Legends: Hulk / Wolverine – Six Hours                   Trade Paperback
Features a reprinting of the all-time classic The Incredible Hulk #181… the 1st full Wolverine story!
Cover by: Simon Bisley

Wolverine and Bruce Banner have something in common in this mini-series: they both just want to get away for a while. Wolverine wants to take a hard-earned vacation in the wilds of Canada for a little return to nature; Banner wants to escape from the government spooks tailing him, and hops a charter bound for Canada to do it. Unfortunately, a child suffering from snakebite, a trigger-happy drug dealer, and the always lurking presence of the Hulk beneath the surface of Banner’s psyche conspire to ruin everyone’s plans, setting the Hulk and Wolverine on the collision course that always seems to happen with these two characters.

Now, Marvel Comics presents, the Hulk and Wolverine in “Six Hours”. Lost in the Canadian wilderness, Dr. Bruce Banner, a.k.a. The Incredible Hulk, and Wolverine only have six hours to rescue a woman and a boy from two desperate drug dealers. It’s a race against time as these two Marvel icons attempt to control their tempers long enough to save the hostages!

Plus, take a look back at the very first time these two brawlers met in a classic tale by Len Wein and Herb Trimpe. It’s the all-time classic The Incredible Hulk #181, featuring the First full Wolverine story (First Wolverine cameo appearance in The Incredible Hulk #180).

Marvel Legends: Hulk / Wolverine – Six Hours (2003) Trade Paperback contains:Hulk / Wolverine: Six Hours (2003) Issues #1-4
Writer: Bruce Jones
Artist: Scott Kolins
Colorist: Lee Loughridge
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Editors: John Miesegaes, Axel Alonso & Joe Quesada
All Covers by: Simon Bisley

In part #1, Wolverine has returned to his cabin in Quebec to enjoy some quiet time away from people. Meanwhile, back in the United States, Kyle Hatcher prepares for his chartered flight up north. The whole time he complains to his mother Christine about his stepfather Brad and is upset that the maid was in to clean his room. At that moment, at an airport, Bruce Banner is trying to get out of the country. Standing at the ticket counter he overhears the man in front of him collecting a ticket to Mistassini in Quebec on a private charter. When Banner tries to book a seat on the same flight, he learns that it is sold out. With the authorities on his heels, Banner slips into the bathroom behind the man who was in front of him in line and jumps him, stealing his airline ticket and clothes. Back at the Hatcher home, Kyle is furious that the maid went through his room. While feeding his snakes, he is bitten by one of them. He thinks nothing of it and puts a bandage on his hand. Elsewhere in the area, a drug dealer named Whitie tries to stiff the man buying his drugs by giving him 50 kilos of cocaine when they agreed upon 65. Whitie manages to out-draw the buyer and shoots him dead. He runs outside where his partner Sid is waiting in the car. He tells Sid to gun it, and that once they make their flight out to Mistassini, they’re going to make it rich. Back at the Hatcher home, Kyle can’t find his glasses and his mother finds them in his desk drawer. She tells him that they have to hurry, or he’ll miss his flight to Mistassini. Later, at the airport, Bruce Banner boards the flight with the ticket he had stolen and meets the pilot, Margie White. At the same time, Wolverine is on a hike in the wilderness. Soon Kyle is dropped off and spends the flight on his cell phone reminding his mother to feed his snakes. Also, on the flight are Whitie and Sid who are talking about their big score when they notice Kyle watching them and hush up. They notice that Kyle is sweating profusely and ask if he is sick. The becomes rapidly more ill prompting Bruce Banner to check on the boy. Seeing the bandage on his hand, he removes it and discovers an infected snake bite underneath. He quickly snatches up the boy’s cell phone and redials the last number called. He reaches Kyle’s mother Christine and learns that the boy has a snake collection at home. Through their conversation, they discover that while Kyle thought he was bitten by Sammy, his king snake, thanks to a combination of the maid moving his snake habitats around and Kyle not wearing his glasses, the boy was actually bitten by a coral snake, a similarly marked by venomous snake. With no anti-venom on the plane, and Kyle slipping into a coma, Bruce tells Margie that they need to divert the plane. However, Whitie has other ideas, pulling his gun he tells Margie to stay on her present course. Back on the ground, Brad and Christine learn that Kyle only has six hours to live unless he is given anti-venom and they wait for word on their son. Meanwhile, in the Candian wilderness, Wolverine continues his hike, crossing paths with a cougar. Back on the plane, Banner continues to insist that they divert the flight, but Whitie and Sid will do no such thing. Sending Margie back into the cockpit, Bruce once more insists that they redirect their flight. That’s when Whitie pistol whips Banner. Beginning to lose his temper, Bruce warns them to put their guns away. However, Whitie isn’t scared and tries to shoot Banner. However, this only triggers a transformation into the Hulk, whose massive frame compromises the integrity of the plane. With the cabin’s rapid decompression, the stolen drug money get sucked out as everyone scrambles to avoid getting sucked out as well. Margie tries to keep the plane steady, but they begin to rapidly lose altitude. Back in the States, Kyle’s parents wait for news and fear the worst. As the plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness, Wolverine is not far away. Unaware that a plane has crashed, get gets tired of listening to his radio, having come up to the woods to get away from people. He drops the device on the ground and continues on his way, just missing a news report about the plane crash in his area.

Next in part #2, Mobster Harry Gavino is trying to play golf with his friends when he receives a phone call about how Whitie and Sid stiffed him on a drug deal, killing the buy and taking the drugs and the money. However, the buyer managed to write the name of their destination in his own blood before dying. Learning that they are heading to Mistassini in Canada, Gavino has his men hire a local mercenary known as the Shredder to deal with them. At that moment in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, Bruce Banner wakes up to find the plane that he was flying to Mistassini had crashed thanks to a transformation into the Hulk during a confrontation with Whitie and Sid over diverting their flight because another passenger, young Kyle Hatcher, had been bitten by one of his pet coral snakes and needs immediate medical attention. He searches the wreckage and finds nobody around, dead or alive. Gathering his broken watch and his duffle bag, he narrowly manages to get clear of the wreckage before the fuel ignites. No far away, the two drug dealers, pilot Margie White, and Kyle have survived the crash. The two men are debating about killing the pilot and the boy but have no idea where they are or how to get to Mistassini. Sid calls the man they intend to sell their drugs, and even he can’t figure out where they are. Since Margie knows how to tell directions and is their best chance to get out of the wilderness alive, she refuses to help unless they take Kyle with them. However, instead of going to Mistassini, Sid asks her to direct them to a place called Lake Vague. Meanwhile, at a church somewhere in Canada, the Shredder is busy torturing his latest victim. This is interrupted by a phone call, it’s Gavino’s men hiring him to track down Whitie and Sid. Shredder accepts the job and then finishes his current victim quickly. Back in the wilderness, Banner is getting dressed when suddenly a cougar happens upon him. The big cat lunges at him, but before Banner can turn into the Hulk, Wolverine speeds in on his motorcycle, hitting the cougar. The feline recovers, but when Wolverine shows off his claws, the cat flees off into the forest. Logan explains that he was tracking the plane crash and asks Banner what he is doing there. Surprisingly, Banner is able to hit Logan with enough force to send him sprawling. Bruce manages to gain control of the Hulk and prevent his transformation and explains Kyle Hatcher’s situation to the dumbfounded mutant. At that moment, Sid, Whitie, Margie, and Kyle continue their trek. Getting the boy stabilized with some medicine, she insists that they need to get to Mistassini, as it has a larger hospital. However, the crooks insist that they go on to Lake Vague. Back in the United States, the Hatcher family waits for word about their son. His mother, Christine, blames herself for what happened and is consoled by her husband Brad. Back in Canada, Wolverine and Banner have returned to Logan’s cabin so he can repair his motorcycle, which was damaged when rammed into the cougar. While Logan is working on it, Banner has been working on converting a viper antivenom into something that might combat the coral snake toxin running through Kyle’s system. Logan picked up their scent from the cocaine they are carrying and correctly deduces that they would be heading to Lake Vague because there are fewer police in that area. While at Lake Vague, the man who is buying the drugs off Whitie and Sid is confronted by the Shredder. When the masked man learns the general location of his targets, he uses his massive misshapen hand to claw the man to death. At that moment, at a nearby lake, an elderly couple are robbed of their RV by the two crooks in question. They then load Kyle in the back and order Margie to drive them the rest of the way. Meanwhile, the Shredder begins tracking his quarry, and when he spots Logan and Banner heading their way, he called Harry Gavino and tells him that his price has just increased. In the RV, Whitie has taken over driving so that Marige can administer another shot to Kyle. When she appeals to them to drop her and Kyle off at a closer hospital, the two-drug pusher still refuse. Filling a syringe with a sedative, Margie then manages to inject Whitie with it. Unaware of what happened, the drug dealer thinks he was bitten by a mosquito. At that moment, the Shredder encounters the elderly couple and after learning what they know, kills them as well. It’s then that the sedative kicks in and Whitie ends up driving their RV off the road. Back at the lake, Logan and Banner comes across the bodies of the elderly couple. Logan recognizes the work as he’s seen it once before and that they need to keep moving. The time is 4:36, and young Kyle has less than an hour and a half to live.

Next in part #3, With their son lost in the Canadian wilderness suffering from a potentially lethal snake bite, Christine, and Brad Hatcher watch the news for any information concerning their son. To their horror, they learn that Bruce Banner — aka the Hulk — was also on the flight and now fear the worst. While her son is in serious danger, it’s not in the way his parents fear. He and pilot, Margie White, are prisoners of Whitie and Sid, two drug dealers trying to smuggle a load of stolen cocaine to a buyer in the town of Lake Vague. With their stolen RV crashed, Whitie has sustained serious spinal injuries, and his partner Sid decides to leave him to die, taking the cocaine and his prisoners with him. Kyle is still alive, but in a bad way, with less than an hour and a half before the poison in his system kills him. However, Sid insists that they keep on walking, forcing the issue by threatening Margie with his gun. Meanwhile, Wolverine and Bruce Banner are racing to find Kyle. Not only is time running out for the boy, a hired killer named the Shredder is on their trail. Logan has met him once before and tells Banner that he barely survived the encounter and that nobody has beaten the Shredder in the past. While back at the Hatcher residence, Christine gets a call from Canadian Air Rescue, who tells her that they still haven’t been able to find the crashed plane her son was onboard. By this time, the Shredder has found Whitie in the wrecked RV. Although he doesn’t know which direction they went, he tells the killer that Margie made a litter to drag the boy. Seeing the trail they have left behind, the Shredder then kills Whitie, putting him out of his misery. Not far away, Margie checks on Kyle and discovers that while his fever has broken, he is still in a coma. Sid suggests shooting the boy to put him out of his misery, but she tells him that he will have to shoot her first, leaving him with no clue how to find Lake Vague. With the sun starting to set, Sid tells her to get a move on. At that moment, Logan and Bruce find the crashed RV which, thanks to Wolverine’s tracking abilities, puts them on the trail of Margie and Shredder. Some distance away, Sid and Margie arrive just outside of Lake Vague. Seeing the town ahead, Sid decides to renege on his deal and is about to shoot Margie when he is killed by the Shredder. The Shredder threatens to kill Margie and Kyle, but she tells him where to find the buyer’s money, saying that she knows where the hidden safe is and the combination, as told her her by Sid. The Shredder buys her story and agrees to spare her and the boy if she shows him where the safe is. Not far away, Wolverine has lost their sent which upsets Banner. Logan tells Bruce to keep it under control because although he lost their scent, he can still follow their trail. They catch up to the Shredder, just after he killed an old man to steal his motorboat to take himself, Margie and Kyle across the lake. Surprised to see his one-time enemy, the Shredder dumps Kyle overboard and continues on his way. Racing his motorcycle down the dock, Logan tells Bruce to save the boy. When Bruce dives into the water, Logan jumps his motorcycle off the dock, so that Wolverine can launch himself toward his foe.

Finally in part #4, Wolverine and Bruce Banner have traveled across the Canadian wilderness to save the life of Kyle Hatcher, a young boy who was bitten by a venomous snake before a summer trip. Along the way, the boy and his pilot Margie White were taken hostage by drug dealers who were subsequently killed by an assassin called the Shredder. The pair finally located the killer on Lake Vague where he tosses the boy overboard. While Banner dives into the lake to save the boy, Wolverine has leaped off his motorcycle and clash with the Shredder, his one-time foe. As the two fight it out, the boat shoots across the lake and crashes on the opposite side of the shore, spilling the occupants onto the beach. Meanwhile, Bruce has pulled the kid ashore and with minutes to spare he reaches into his pocket for the anti-venom he concocted but discovers that it had fallen out of his pocket while diving after the boy. Thinking it might be in the lake, Bruce dives in to search for it. As Wolverine and Shredder continue to battle each other, Bruce cannot find the antidote anywhere. Returning to the surface, he spots a nearby cabin and carries the boy there in the hopes of finding a phone to call an ambulance. At this point, Wolverine has got an edge up on the battle after slicing off the Shredder’s claw-like hand. With his primary weapon gone, the Shredder demands that Wolverine end his life. Logan agrees, but instead of killing his foe himself, he leaves the Shredder to be mauled by a nearby cougar. Inside the cabin, they discover that while Bruce found a first aid kit, there is no phone. With the anti-venom lost and time running out, Logan believes he could hunt up a coral snake so they can make their own anti-venom. Since it needs to be diluted in blood, one of them will have to be bitten. Because of Logan’s mutant healing factor, and the fact that Margie lost a lot of blood in the RV crash, it is up to Bruce. Hoping that Banner can keep the Hulk in check, Logan leaps into the forest to look for a snake. Logan finds a snake, and after being bitten, they begin transfusing Banner’s blood into the boy. However, nothing is working, and Kyle is fading fast. With no other choice, Bruce believes that the Hulk’s blood will be able to save Kyle and allows himself to transform into the Hulk. Although Kyle is suddenly infused with the Hulk’s blood, the gamma-spawned monster begins to rage, trashing the cabin. Logan tells Margie to grab Kyle and run for cover while he brawls with the Hulk. The two fight it out, until Kyle — having woken from his coma — interrupts them. Soon, after Bruce changes back to human form, Kyle is able to call his mother and let her know that he is safe. With the worst over, Logan dumps the cocaine into the lake and after a brief back-and-forth with Banner about who saved the day and won the girl, the two heroes part company.
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The Incredible Hulk Issue #181
Writer: Len Wein
Artist: Herb Trimpe
Inker: Jack Abel
Colorist: Glynis Wein
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Roy Thomas
Cover by: Herb Trimpe

In “And Now…The Wolverine!”, Canadian super-agent Wolverine teams up with the Hulk to battle Wendigo; Once the monster is felled, however, Wolverine turns on the Hulk and the two battle; Marie goes ahead with her plans of trying to transfer the power of the Wendigo into the Hulk but when the guilt becomes too much for best friend Georges who feels responsible for Paul’s monstrous condition, he works the change on himself; Paul Cartier is returned to human form and Georges becomes the Wendigo.

The clawed hero Wolverine leaps out from the top of a rocky hill landing between the Hulk and The Wendigo. Scurrying onto the Hulk’s back, he begins swiping at him with his diamond-hard Adamantium claws, but even they cannot pierce the Hulk’s skin. Realizing that the Wendigo may prove to be an easier target, Wolverine springs over the Hulk’s head and launches himself at the Wendigo. His suspicions prove correct, and his claws rake into the woodland creature’s hide.

The Hulk, confused by this sudden turn of events, concludes that the “enemy of my enemy is also my friend”, so he assists Wolverine in stopping the Wendigo. The Hulk picks the monster up and smashes him through a grove of trees. Wolverine finishes the job by sinking his claws into the Wendigo’s throat. The Wendigo is an immortal creature however, and even this seemingly fatal blow is not enough to kill him. For the time being though, the Wendigo is unconscious.

Now Wolverine turns his attention onto the Hulk. The fight is furious, but brief, until two bystanders, Marie Cartier and Georges Baptiste, use chemicals to knock them both out.

Marie Cartier prepares once again to conduct an occult ritual that will remove the spirit of the Wendigo from her brother’s body, and transpose it onto the Hulk. With the Hulk unconscious, he slowly changes back into Robert Banner. Georges refuses to take part in Marie’s plan any longer. Arguing that it was bad enough when she intended on placing the curse on a mindless monster, but now she plans to subject an innocent human being to the curse of the Wendigo. Georges angrily storms off.

Marie tries to drag Banner’s body back into the cave with the unconscious Wendigo, but Banner awakens and just as quickly turns back into the Hulk. Wolverine revives as well and the two begin fighting once again. Marie flees from the battle and races back into the cave. The Hulk swings a mighty punch, but Wolverine manages to roll just in time so that it is only a glancing blow. The punch is still strong enough to knocks him out however.

Inside the cave, Marie discovers that Georges has completed her occult ritual. He has transferred the power of the Wendigo out of Paul Cartier’s body, and placed it inside his own. As the new Wendigo, the last vestiges of Georges’ intellect quickly fade away, but not before he manages to profess his love for Marie Cartier. The Wendigo turns and smashes through a section of cavern wall and runs off into the forest. Paul Cartier is now forever free of the curse of the Wendigo.

Featuring the First full Wolverine story (First Wolverine cameo appearance was in The Incredible Hulk #180).
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Trade Paperback reprints/collects: Hulk / Wolverine: Six Hours (2003) Issues #1-4 & The Incredible Hulk (1974) Issue #181.  Marvel Comics

Trade Paperback is bagged & boarded 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: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: 2003
Format: FC, 128 pages, TPB, 10.25″ x 6.75″
ISBN-10: 0785111573
ISBN-13: 9780785111573

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is Very Good to Fine – condition.  (spine has significant damage especially towards top of spine & creases on front cover)  Otherwise… Very Nice Reading Copy!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Hulk and/or Wolverine collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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