Hulk Comic
| Hulk Comic | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel UK |
| Schedule | Weekly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | March 1979 – May 1980 |
| No. of issues | 63 |
| Main character(s) | ISBN 1-85400-227-9 |
Hulk Comic (later The Incredible Hulk Weekly[1]) was a black-and-white Marvel UK comics anthology published under the editorship of Dez Skinn starting in 1979.
Publication history
After starring for many years in the Marvel UK flagship title, The Mighty World of Marvel, the Hulk was given his own weekly publication. Explaining the thinking behind the comic Dez Skinn said: "I was wanting an adventure anthology title more than a super-hero one. Super-heroes had never been big sellers in the UK, we had plenty of legends of the past to spin fantasies about. So I went that route, picking existing Marvel characters who weren't really cut from the super-hero cloth."[2]
Like many titles published by the company under Dez Skinn, Hulk Comic featured new material produced by British creators such as
The title included new Hulk material drawn by Dave Gibbons and Steve Dillon. This material portrayed the inarticulate, wandering Hulk of the 1970s television series. Once the title began featuring American reprints, it featured the Marvel Universe Hulk as depicted by Sal Buscema.
Other original work included
The title lasted 63 issues before merging with Marvel UK's Spider-Man weekly title.
Original material
The following is a list of all the UK-originated strips in the title together with their respective issue numbers.
- The Incredible Hulk, #1-6, 9-20, 26-28
- The Black Knight, #1, 3-30, 42-55, 57-63
- Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., #1-19
- Night-Raven, #1-20
- Ant-Man, #48-49
Collected editions
Some of the original material has been collected into trade paperbacks:
- Night Raven: The Collected Stories (64 pages, Marvel Comics, October 1990, ISBN 1-85400-227-9)
- Captain Britain (Panini Comics):
- Volume 3: The Lion and the Spider (includes Hulk Comic Weekly #1, 3-30, 204 pages, November 2008, ISBN 1-84653-401-1)
- Volume 4: The Siege of Camelot (includes Hulk Comic Weekly #42-55, 57-63, 258 pages, November 2009, ISBN 1-84653-433-X)
- Volume 3: The Lion and the Spider (includes Hulk Comic Weekly #1, 3-30, 204 pages, November 2008,
Notes
- ^ from issue #47, with the "Weekly" being dropped in issue #59
- ^ "Dez Skinn Dot Com". Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
- ^ Lowrey, Nigel (August 2008). "The Saga of Captain Britain". Back Issue! (29). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 37, 39.
References
- Hulk Comic at the Grand Comics Database
- Hulk Comic at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
External links
- Night Raven at the International Catalogue of Superheroes
