Some covers are remembered better than the comics inside them, and this is one of the purest cases. For the Hulk's first King-Size Special, Jim Steranko, then in the middle of his celebrated run on Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., carved the title into slabs of stone and sent the Hulk crashing through it. The character is literally breaking his own name apart while the page burns behind him. The design has been quoted on homage covers ever since, from Spawn to Immortal Hulk.
Behind the cover is a solid Inhumans story. Gary Friedrich and Marie Severin drop the Hulk into the Inhumans' hidden city in the middle of a coup: Maximus the Mad and a band of rebel Inhumans want Black Bolt's throne and see the Hulk as their battering ram. It ends with Black Bolt offering the outcast a home, and the Hulk refusing it.
High grade matters more here than on most Silver Age books, because the cover's white stone field shows every bit of handling. This copy is graded CGC 9.2 (Near Mint-) with off-white to white pages, in an older-generation CGC holder. On the back, a 1968 Wallace Brown ad promises extra Christmas money to anyone who knows just ten people.
CGC certification #1212904002. Ships fully insured in a Gemini graded-comic mailer within one business day.
Some covers are remembered better than the comics inside them, and this is one of the purest cases. For the Hulk's first King-Size Special, Jim Steranko, then in the middle of his celebrated run on Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., carved the title into slabs of stone and sent the Hulk crashing through it. The character is literally breaking his own name apart while the page burns behind him. The design has been quoted on homage covers ever since, from Spawn to Immortal Hulk.
Behind the cover is a solid Inhumans story. Gary Friedrich and Marie Severin drop the Hulk into the Inhumans' hidden city in the middle of a coup: Maximus the Mad and a band of rebel Inhumans want Black Bolt's throne and see the Hulk as their battering ram. It ends with Black Bolt offering the outcast a home, and the Hulk refusing it.
High grade matters more here than on most Silver Age books, because the cover's white stone field shows every bit of handling. This copy is graded CGC 9.2 (Near Mint-) with off-white to white pages, in an older-generation CGC holder. On the back, a 1968 Wallace Brown ad promises extra Christmas money to anyone who knows just ten people.
CGC certification #1212904002. Ships fully insured in a Gemini graded-comic mailer within one business day.
