For five years the Hulk had no book of his own. His first series ended with its sixth issue in 1963, and he spent the years after that sharing Tales to Astonish, first with Giant-Man and then with the Sub-Mariner. In the spring of 1968 he took the whole magazine. Marvel kept the numbering, so the Hulk's "Big Premiere Issue" arrived as #102, a quirk that has made it one of the more overlooked first issues of the Silver Age.
The story keeps him far from home. Bruce Banner, tumbling through Asgard at the end of the last Astonish, is caught by the Enchantress and the Executioner, who are raising a troll army against the Golden Realm. The Warriors Three hear the monster's origin from an oracle, a retelling of the 1962 story for readers who had missed it, and by the end Odin has had enough of his guest and sends him home.
Marie Severin drew it, and drew the cover. She was one of the very few women penciling superhero comics at the time and the Hulk's regular artist through this run. Her cover is all fists and faces, four Hulks crowding toward the reader over the promise "origin and all!" On the back of the slab, Norman Rockwell recruits "people who like to draw" for the Famous Artists School.
This copy is graded CGC 8.5 (Very Fine+) with off-white to white pages, housed in an older-generation CGC holder.
CGC certification #0985186008. Ships fully insured in a Gemini graded-comic mailer within one business day.
For five years the Hulk had no book of his own. His first series ended with its sixth issue in 1963, and he spent the years after that sharing Tales to Astonish, first with Giant-Man and then with the Sub-Mariner. In the spring of 1968 he took the whole magazine. Marvel kept the numbering, so the Hulk's "Big Premiere Issue" arrived as #102, a quirk that has made it one of the more overlooked first issues of the Silver Age.
The story keeps him far from home. Bruce Banner, tumbling through Asgard at the end of the last Astonish, is caught by the Enchantress and the Executioner, who are raising a troll army against the Golden Realm. The Warriors Three hear the monster's origin from an oracle, a retelling of the 1962 story for readers who had missed it, and by the end Odin has had enough of his guest and sends him home.
Marie Severin drew it, and drew the cover. She was one of the very few women penciling superhero comics at the time and the Hulk's regular artist through this run. Her cover is all fists and faces, four Hulks crowding toward the reader over the promise "origin and all!" On the back of the slab, Norman Rockwell recruits "people who like to draw" for the Famous Artists School.
This copy is graded CGC 8.5 (Very Fine+) with off-white to white pages, housed in an older-generation CGC holder.
CGC certification #0985186008. Ships fully insured in a Gemini graded-comic mailer within one business day.
