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Issue: Marvel Masterworks #8
Publication Date: September 1989
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Issues: #8 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 8
Pages: 168
ISBN: 0871355949
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $31.25 CAD
$24.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 28 (18 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Art restoration by Phil Lord. Recolored by Andy Yanchus.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In2
Disclose Reprinted From25
reprinted 25 times from Content Items in other Issues.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt 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]cover
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Pages: 1
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2003
as Marvel Masterworks [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published January 2008
as Misunderstood Monster [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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The Incredible Hulk #1

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: The strangest man of all time!!
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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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Pages: 1
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The Coming of the Hulk, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner] (introduction, origin); Rick Jones (introduction); Thunderbolt Ross (introduction); Betty Ross (introduction); Igor (introduction)
First Line: Half-man, half-monster, the mighty Hulk thunders out of the night to take his place among the most amazing characters of all time!
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)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-709
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[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 2: The Hulk Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Igor
First Line: Like a silent dreadnaught, the hulking thing that was once Bruce Banner crouches in the shadows, as the pursuing troops rush by..
Synopsis: The Hulk and Rick Jones go to Banner's cabin to retrieve the gamma ray formula.
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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 2: The Hulk Strikes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-709
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[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 3: The Search for the Hulk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Igor
First Line: Where is he?
Synopsis: The military continues its search for 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 3: The Search for the Hulk [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 4: Enter...the Gargoyle!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Igor; Gargoyle [Yuri Topolov] (introduction)
First Line: Let us leave Bruce Banner and his young friend Rick for a moment, and turn our attention to the red spy known as Igor as he broods darkly in his cell...
Synopsis: Igor sends a message via short wave to his communist allies. The message is relayed to the Gargoyle who decides to capture 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 4: Enter...the Gargoyle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 5: The Hulk Triumphant!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Igor; Gargoyle [Yuri Topolov] (death)
First Line: Holy Hannah!
Synopsis: The Gargoyle captures the Hulk and Rick Jones and transports them behind the Iron Curtain. The Hulk transforms back into Banner who offers to help cure the Gargoyle of his affliction. The Gargoyle, who wants nothing more than to be a normal man, agrees to be cured; once cured, the Gargoyle helps Banner and Jones escape back to America.
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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 5: The Hulk Triumphant! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-709
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The Incredible Hulk #2

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: General! It's them
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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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Pages: 1
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The Terror of the Toad Men, Part 1: Enter...the Toad Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner](origin recap); Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: Like a savage, marauding monster from some mad nether world, the frightening figure of the Hulk suddenly appears from out of the murky swamp...
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.
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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)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-781
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[The Terror of the Toad Men] Part 2: Prisoners of the Toad Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross; Torrak
First Line: Do not struggle and you will not be injured -- yet!
Synopsis: The Toad men capture Bruce Banner and bring him to their spaceship.
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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 2: Prisoners of the Toad Men! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-781
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[The Terror of the Toad Men] Part 3: Bruce Banner, Wanted for Treason!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: But as the smoke clears, one lone figure emerges from the smoldering wreckage...
Synopsis: Bruce Banner is found in a Toad Men crashed spaceship while their fleet arrives on Earth.
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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 3: Bruce Banner, Wanted for Treason! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
Job Number: V-781
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[The Terror of the Toad Men] Part 4: Hulk Runs Amok!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: And suddenly, a powerful magnetic impulse jams every earth TV and radio receiver, as the face of the Toad King appears on screens from Brooklyn to Bangkok!
Synopsis: Hulk escapes from his cell while General Ross forgets about the Toad Men.
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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 4: Hulk Runs Amok! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: v-781
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[The Terror of the Toad Men] Part 5: The End of the Hulk?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: Hold your fire! You might hit my daughter!
Synopsis: 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 5: The End of the Hulk? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: v-781
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The Incredible Hulk #3

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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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Pages: 1
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Banished to Outer Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner] (Brief Origin); Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: In a cement-walled chamber beneath the sea, the most incredible creature on earth pounds vainly against the walls of his prison...
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!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner] (origin); Rick Jones
First Line: .... as Rick Jones sits against the cold, dank wall, fighting desperately to keep from falling asleep, his thoughts go racing back...
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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Pages: 3
Job Number: V-870
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The Ringmaster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross; Polly Jones; Circus of Crime [Ringmaster [Maynard Tiboldt] (introduction); Tenna [Mary Stenson] (introduction); Human Cannonball [Jack Pulvar] (introduction)] (introduction)
First Line: Nothing that lives can defy me!
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 Incredible Hulk #4

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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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Pages: 1
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The Monster and the Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross
First Line: In a silent, secret laboratory, a tense teen-ager adjusts a complex ray-machine over the head of the most incredible living creature on the face of the Earth!
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!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Mongu [Boris Monguski] (introduction)
First Line: It landed suddenly, unexpectedly, swooping down from the skies without warning!
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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Pages: 10
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The Incredible Hulk #5

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Tyrannus
First Line: More powerful! More dangerous!
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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
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Tyrannus [Romulus Augustulus] (introduction)
First Line: Our tale begins with the showing of top-secret army films in the home of General "Thunderbolt" Ross...
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 Hoards of General Fang!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross; General Fang (introduction)
First Line: Half-man, half-monster, the incredible Hulk noiselessly springs over unsuspecting towns as his unbelievably powerful legs propel his awesome form vast distances thru a series of powerful leaps!
Synopsis: The Hulk thwarts a would-be Genghis Khan conqueror 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 Incredible Hulk #6

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Metal Master
First Line: Even your limitless strength cannot save you from me, Hulk!
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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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Pages: 1
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The Incredible Hulk vs The Metal Master!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Metal Master [Molyb] (introduction)
First Line: What happens when a living being whose incredible might is almost beyond measure meets a menace from another world -- a menace whose power cannot be halted by mere brute strength??
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 alien invading 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.
Reprinting
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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