MARVEL COMICS LIBRARY The Incredible Hulk 1962-1966 Deluxe Edition

He’s one of the most enduring characters across all popular culture -- and this collection of The Incredible Hulk #1-6 along with his appearances in Tales to Astonish is where it all began. The lavish reproduction of the original comics brings Hulk to rampaging yet sorrowful life alongside original artwork, rare photographs, and ephemera. Stan and Jack took their monster comics theme and mixed it up with a Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde to create a character that was unique to all of comics. These early stories are masterpieces of angst, heroism and sacrifice.... Young Rick Jones was goofing off in a nuclear test area; he's saved by Bruce Banner, but Bruce is pummeled with radiation from the bomb explosion. He becomes the monster Hulk, an unreasoning brute who is just barely controlled by a grateful Rick, trying to stay one step ahead of the army and annihilation. Instead of taking a costume off and on like any normal hero, Bruce has Rick lock him into an under-ocean bunker each time he becomes The Hulk, to save the world from the monster. But he escapes time and again, and somehow a tiny part of his brain mostly works for good, against villains, aliens and more. And that's all before he becomes an off-again, on-again member of The Avengers, when he's still hunted by both the first Avengers and The Fantastic Four, as well as Spider-Man and The X-Men as a monster to be corralled! "Unquestionably one of the strangest, strongest, and most evocative archetypes to come from Marvel Comics, the Hulk defies all explanation. At times at war with other superheroes, villains, the United States military, humanity, and even his alter-ego Bruce Banner himself, he stands as an avatar of unbridled fury, primal instincts, the destructive potential of the atomic bomb and humanity’s hubris all at once. A modern Prometheus, imbued by atomic fire, who will never stop raging, never stop smashing." Great stuff! Huge size, newly restored to the true colors. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge.