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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:17 pm |
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From Marvel.com
PLANET HULK WORLD WAR HULK HULK: THE END TEMPEST FUGIT HULK VISIONARIES: JOHN BYRNE vol. 1 HULK VISIONARIES: PETER DAVID vol. 1 HULK VS. THE MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE HULK VS. IRON MAN: ULTIMATE HUMAN MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK vol. 1 DIGEST INCREDIBLE HULK OMNIBUS
Thoughts?
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:18 pm |
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The two most glaring omissions seem to be the STARTLING STORIES: BANNER and all of the Bruce Jones run (considering the list is aimed at fans of the movie).
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:32 pm |
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It's not in print, but I treasure my Hulk Fireside book from the 1970's. Think about the historic significance of these books -- one of the creators (Stan), only 16 years after the Hulk's creation, compiled selections of the stories he felt were the best representative stories, and wrote short essays to introduce them. Classic.
For those who wonder what's in it -- an origin retelling from the original Hulk #3, the Avengers vs. Hulk story (was that Avengers 3, I think?), the FF battle against the Hulk (FF 12? maybe), then a good long run of the inaugural Tales to Astonish arc (about 12 issues, half issues, drawn by Ditko and Kirby -- has there ever been another tight story arc with Ditko followed by Kirby?), and then one Gil Kane Hulk story.
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Ocean Doot
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:39 pm |
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I'm content to see Jones' work left off. His Hulk run was really weak. Never understood what people saw in it.
Apart from Peter David's work, most of the Hulk stuff I like isn't collected. Bill Mantlo's run deserves the Visionaries treatment, as does Roger Stern's.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:41 pm |
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Monk wrote: From Marvel.com
PLANET HULK WORLD WAR HULK HULK: THE END TEMPEST FUGIT HULK VISIONARIES: JOHN BYRNE vol. 1 HULK VISIONARIES: PETER DAVID vol. 1 HULK VS. THE MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE HULK VS. IRON MAN: ULTIMATE HUMAN MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK vol. 1 DIGEST INCREDIBLE HULK OMNIBUS
Thoughts? My first thought is how funny it is they're calling it the "essential" list but Essential Hulk volumes are not on the list. 
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:42 pm |
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True, but the Omnibus is the same as Essential Hulk 1, plus a couple more stories.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:44 pm |
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Yes, but the message is "these aren't really all that essential, despite our calling them Essential".
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:47 pm |
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The Essentials don't look so nice.IMO.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:47 pm |
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TEMPEST FUGIT ** that should be replaced. It's not that good.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:48 pm |
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Tempest Fugit is pure awful. Ugh.
The PAD trade where they merge the Hulks should be on the list, just for sheer significance (and the Keown art).
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:46 pm |
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If the Sal Buscema run of Hulk is not on that list, then the list is a sham.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:47 pm |
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I don't think they've collected that into a trade.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:48 pm |
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Well, these are collections, and most of the above (such as the Stern and Buscema runs) hasn't really been collected.
That said, Future Imperfect needs to be on this list. It's out of print, though.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:30 pm |
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Besides, notice how many of these are really, really new? Planet Hulk as a paperback is fairly new, WWHulk and Ult. IM vs Hulk are only a few weeks old, as are the Hulk Omnibus, Visionaries: Byrne and Visionaries: PAD.
This isn't supposed to be a deifntive list-- it's the stuff they're selling right now.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:32 pm |
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Steve wrote: That said, Future Imperfect needs to be on this list. It's out of print, though. It's in the Hulk: The End book.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:41 pm |
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Li'l Jay wrote: It's not in print, but I treasure my Hulk Fireside book from the 1970's. Think about the historic significance of these books -- one of the creators (Stan), only 16 years after the Hulk's creation, compiled selections of the stories he felt were the best representative stories, and wrote short essays to introduce them. Classic.
For those who wonder what's in it -- an origin retelling from the original Hulk #3, the Avengers vs. Hulk story (was that Avengers 3, I think?), the FF battle against the Hulk (FF 12? maybe), then a good long run of the inaugural Tales to Astonish arc (about 12 issues, half issues, drawn by Ditko and Kirby -- has there ever been another tight story arc with Ditko followed by Kirby?), and then one Gil Kane Hulk story. I have that book, Jay! Love it!
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:43 pm |
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Ocean Doot wrote: I'm content to see Jones' work left off. His Hulk run was really weak. Never understood what people saw in it.
Apart from Peter David's work, most of the Hulk stuff I like isn't collected. Bill Mantlo's run deserves the Visionaries treatment, as does Roger Stern's. My kids are reading the Stern/Mantlo/Sal Hulks. Really they should be collected in color somewhere. Thses are the Hulks that laid the foundation for Byrne and PAD. Fun stuff!
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:54 pm |
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Marcus wrote: I have that book, Jay! Love it! I was a young boy when I got it -- my copy has a mustache drawn on Bruce and the Hulk on the cover, in pen.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:56 pm |
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Marcus wrote: Ocean Doot wrote: I'm content to see Jones' work left off. His Hulk run was really weak. Never understood what people saw in it.
Apart from Peter David's work, most of the Hulk stuff I like isn't collected. Bill Mantlo's run deserves the Visionaries treatment, as does Roger Stern's. My kids are reading the Stern/Mantlo/Sal Hulks. Really they should be collected in color somewhere. Thses are the Hulks that laid the foundation for Byrne and PAD. Fun stuff! Yeah, isn't it? Mantlo's material is underrated -- I imagine at the time it was overshadowed by its contemporaries, since that was the "New Silver Age" period with Byrne on FF, Stern on Avengers, Simonson on Thor, Miller on Daredevil, etc. But Mantlo wrote the best "Hulk Will Smash" Hulk of anyone, I think.
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:21 pm |
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Monk wrote: The two most glaring omissions seem to be the STARTLING STORIES: BANNER and all of the Bruce Jones run (considering the list is aimed at fans of the movie). You're kidding, right?
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:48 pm |
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Post subject: 10 Essential Hulk Collections Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:57 pm |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: Steve wrote: That said, Future Imperfect needs to be on this list. It's out of print, though. It's in the Hulk: The End book. Oh, cool.
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