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Issue: Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #1
Publication Date: January 2003
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Issues: #1 of 20 Issues (38 Printings)
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Variant: Regular Edition
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 05/23/2003
Volume: 1
Pages: 168
ISBN: 0785111859
UPC/EAN: 978078511185653999
Price: $64.00 CAD
$44.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 24 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
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Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was Is He Man or Monster or... Is He Both? [Illustration on Cover, Front]Marvel Masterworks border trade dress
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Marvel Masterworks

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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From Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #8 published September 1989
was Introduction [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

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Frontispiece

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Character(s): The Hulk
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was The Coming of the Hulk, Part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Contents

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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Is He Man or Monster or... Is He Both!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Hulk; Bruce Banner; General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was Is He Man or Monster or... Is He Both? [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Hulk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner] (introduction, origin); Rick Jones (introduction); General Thunderbolt Ross (introduction); Betty Ross (introduction); Igor (introduction, death); the Gargoyle (introduction)
Synopsis: Scientist Bruce Banner saves a young boy from being killed by a nuclear blast but absorbs deadly amounts of gamma radiation which transforms him into a monster dubbed the Hulk. Bruce Banner is scientist by day, but transforms into the Hulk once the sun goes down.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was The Coming of the Hulk, Part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was [The Coming of the Hulk] Part 2: The Hulk Strikes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was [The Coming of the Hulk] Part 3: The Search for the Hulk [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 3
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was [The Coming of the Hulk] Part 4: Enter...the Gargoyle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 4
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was [The Coming of the Hulk] Part 5: The Hulk Triumphant! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 5
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Pages: 24
Job Number: V-709
Disclose Notes: Story is told in 5 chapters:
Part 1: The Coming of the Hulk (pgs. 1-6),
Part 2: The Hulk Strikes! (pgs. 7-11),
Part 3: The Search For the Hulk (pgs. 12-14),
Part 4: Enter...The Gargoyle! (pgs. 15-19),
Part 5: The Hulk Triumphant! (pgs. 20-24).
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The Terror of the Toad Men!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; the Toad Men; General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1962
was The Terror of the Toad Men! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Terror of the Toad Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner] (origin recap); General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Rick Jones; the Toad Men (introduction)
Synopsis: The Toad Men are above Earth, in search of its brightest scientist. Meanwhile, Rick and Bruce explore an underground cave where they hope to imprison Hulk each night. The Toad men capture Bruce Banner and bring him to their spaceship. Bruce Banner is found in a Toad Men crashed spaceship while their fleet arrives on Earth. Hulk escapes from his cell while General Ross forget about the Toad Men. Bruce Banner repels the Toad Men invasion.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1962
was The Terror of the Toad Men, Part 1: Enter...the Toad Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1962
was [The Terror of the Toad Men] Part 2: Prisoners of the Toad Men! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1962
was [The Terror of the Toad Men] Part 3: Bruce Banner, Wanted for Treason! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1962
was [The Terror of the Toad Men] Part 4: Hulk Runs Amok! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1962
was [The Terror of the Toad Men] Part 5: The End of the Hulk? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 25
Job Number: V-781
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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones
First Line: I can't control him anymore! The Hulk has gone berserk!
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #3 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1962
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Banished to Outer Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; General Thunderbolt Ross; Rick Jones
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #3 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1962
was Banished to Outer Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11
Job Number: V-869
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The Origin of the Hulk!

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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner] (origin); Rick Jones
Synopsis: With the Hulk safely in the underground bunker, Rick dozes and thinks about his origins.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #3 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1962
was The Origin of the Hulk! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Job Number: V-870
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The Ringmaster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; The Ringmaster (introduction); the Circus of Crime (introduction); Polly Jones [Rick's Aunt] (introduction, cameo); General Thunderbolt Ross; Hercules (circus strongman)
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #3 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1962
was The Ringmaster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Job Number: V-871
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The Monster and the Machine! / Mongu!! Gladiator from Space!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Mongu
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was The Monster and the Machine! / Mongu!! Gladiator from Space! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Monster and the Machine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner] (origin recap); General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Rick Jones
Synopsis: Rick uses some of Banner's machinery to transform the Hulk, who was stuck in his monster persona, back into Bruce. Bruce is incredibly weakened by the transformation and takes a chance in using the machinery on himself again which transforms him back into the Hulk's body but with Bruce Banner's mind. Now Bruce and the Hulk can switch at will using the gamma ray machine.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was The Monster and the Machine! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 14
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The Gladiator from Outer Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Mongu [Boris Monguski] (introduction, villain)
Synopsis: An alien invades earth and claims his people will conquer the planet unless he is met in battle by the strongest opponent the world has to offer. Hulk meets the challenge but finds out it is all a ploy by the Russians to capture him and create an army of hulks of their own.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #4 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
was The Gladiator from Outer Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Beauty and the Beast!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Tyrannus; Rick Jones; Betty Ross
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #5 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1963
was Beauty and the Beast! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Beauty and the Beast!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Rick Jones; Tyrannus (introduction)
Synopsis: Underground overlord Tyrannus kidnaps Betty and lures the Hulk into his subterranean kingdom, forcing the Hulk to do his bidding to keep Betty safe. The jade giant is powerless until Rick frees Betty, thus leaving the Hulk free to bring the house down on Tyrannus.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #5 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1963
was Beauty and the Beast! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11
Job Number: X-48
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The Hordes of General Fang!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; General Thunderbolt Ross; Rick Jones; General Fang (introduction)
Synopsis: The Hulk thwarts a would be Genghis Kahn conquerer named General Fang from taking over the Asian province of Llhasa, and he only has to dress up as the Abominable Snowman once to do it.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #5 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1963
was The Hordes of General Fang! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
Job Number: X-47
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The Metal Master!

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Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; the Metal Master
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #6 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1963
was The Metal Master! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Incredible Hulk vs The Metal Master!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Rick Jones; the Teen Brigade (introduction); the Metal Master (introduction, villain)
Synopsis: Finding his transformations more and more difficult using his gamma ray machine, the Hulk with Banner's brain also finds that he has Banner's features when he zaps himself to face the invading alien Metal Master and his head does not transform. The power of the Metal Master is too much for the Hulk, and he is captured by Ross. Rick forms the Teen Brigade. Hulk breaks free of Ross's bunker and then pulls off one of the boldest victories against one of the most powerful aliens ever seen.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #6 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1963
was The Incredible Hulk vs The Metal Master! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 24
Job Number: X-116
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Also Available from Marvel Masterworks

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Disclose Notes: Inside flap
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): various
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Disclose Notes: A reprint of the six covers on the back of the dust jacket.

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