#1

Synopsis

Scientist Bruce Banner saves a teenage boy from being killed by a nuclear blast but absorbs deadly amounts of gamma radiation which transforms him into a monster dubbed the Hulk. Bruce Banner is scientist by day, but transforms into the Hulk once the sun goes down.

Notes

Reprinted in

• Marvel Tales Annual #1
• Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #14
• Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #15
• Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #16
• Il Mitico Thor #5
• Origins of Marvel Comics #[nn]
• Hulk E I Difensori #1
• L'Incredibile Hulk #11— part 3
• Marvel Masterworks #8
• Essential Hulk #1— black and white
• The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #2
• Fantastic Four Omnibus #1
• The 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time #4— part 1
• Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #1— part 1
• Origins of Marvel Comics Revised Edition #[nn]— part 1
• Koloss #1/1968
• The Incredible Hulk #[1] (81446-X)
• Marvel Masterworks: El Increíble Hulk #1
• Orígenes Marvel #5
• Hulk Vol. 1 No. 1 [Marvel Legends Reprint] #1
• Amazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn]
• The Incredible Hulk: The Secret Story of Marvel's Gamma-Powered Goliath #[nn]
• Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #1
• The Incredible Hulk Omnibus #1
• Hulk Vol. 1, No. 1 (Wal-Mart Edition) #1
• Wizard Ace Edition: The Incredible Hulk #1 #[nn]
• Marvel 75th Anniversary Omnibus #[nn]
• Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #1 [Third Edition]
• Hulk: Beauty and the Behemoth #[nn]
• Hulk #5/1985

Credits

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko

Inks

Paul Reinman, Steve Ditko, Sol Brodsky

Painting

Rock-He Kim

Colours

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Ray Holloway, Artie Simek

Original editor

Stan Lee

See notes

Artie Simek

Characters

• Bruce Banner
• Betty Ross
• Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross
• Hulk
• Igor Drenkov
• Rick Jones
• Gargoyle
• Yuri Topolov

Other printings & variants

• Regular Edition
• British
• Facsimile Edition
• Facsimile Edition