Dr. Robert Bruce Banner may look like a mild-mannered scientist, but after being caught in a gamma bomb explosion, he became the unstoppable engine of destruction known as the Hulk! Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's atomic update on the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde paradigm mixed the might of giant monsters with Cold War intrigue and added a heavy dose of psychological drama. Decades later, it's a formula that still has readers clamoring for more! Collects INCREDIBLE HULK (1962) 1-6; FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #12, #25-26; AVENGERS (1963) #1-3, #5; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #14; TALES TO ASTONISH (1959) #59; JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) #112.
