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And Now... The Wolverine collects Hulk #179-200 plus an annual.
I've only read a handful of Hulk comics aside from the recent Immortal Hulk run. Erik Larsen was hyping the Herb Trimpe run of Incredible Hulk so I eventually picked this up.
In the context of 1970s comics, this was excellent. Len Wein is a better writer than I usually give him credit for but I guess I shouldn't be surprised since he's the co-creator of Swamp Thing and had a great Phantom Stranger run. There are certainly a lot of balls in the air throughout this. While Hulk wanders from one misadventure to the next, Glen Talbot is busted out of a Russian prison and winds up a vegetable, Doc Samson leads a task force to catch the Hulk, and Thunderbolt Ross continues his trend of being a huge asshole.
Herb Trimpe, and later Sal Buscema, handle the pencils and Joe Staton does the inks. This is a great looking book. Trimpe and Buscema both draw an iconic hulk. I can see some stuff in Trimpe's art that has echoes in Erik Larsen's style. Big monster fights and disasters are a common feature of Hulk tales and Trimpe and Buscema depict them rather well. I could easily see both of them drawing for EC if EC had survived the Frederick Wertham witchhunt.
It took me about a week to get through this. It was like eating a bag of Halloween candy: great at first but eventually you're done with candy until next Halloween. Four out of five Bronze Age stars.
I've only read a handful of Hulk comics aside from the recent Immortal Hulk run. Erik Larsen was hyping the Herb Trimpe run of Incredible Hulk so I eventually picked this up.
In the context of 1970s comics, this was excellent. Len Wein is a better writer than I usually give him credit for but I guess I shouldn't be surprised since he's the co-creator of Swamp Thing and had a great Phantom Stranger run. There are certainly a lot of balls in the air throughout this. While Hulk wanders from one misadventure to the next, Glen Talbot is busted out of a Russian prison and winds up a vegetable, Doc Samson leads a task force to catch the Hulk, and Thunderbolt Ross continues his trend of being a huge asshole.
Herb Trimpe, and later Sal Buscema, handle the pencils and Joe Staton does the inks. This is a great looking book. Trimpe and Buscema both draw an iconic hulk. I can see some stuff in Trimpe's art that has echoes in Erik Larsen's style. Big monster fights and disasters are a common feature of Hulk tales and Trimpe and Buscema depict them rather well. I could easily see both of them drawing for EC if EC had survived the Frederick Wertham witchhunt.
It took me about a week to get through this. It was like eating a bag of Halloween candy: great at first but eventually you're done with candy until next Halloween. Four out of five Bronze Age stars.
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