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Title: Essential Hulk Volume 2 by Stan Lee, Herb Trimpe, Marie Severin ISBN: 0-7851-0795-9 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Graphic novels really should be listed as regular novels
Comment: I love graphic novels as much as the next collector and have just about everything listed by Amazon. Not exactly everything, but a great percentage. This graphic novels should actually be rated and listed the same as regular novels, because the dynamics of their stories, not just the fantastic artwork, takes you away to places that novels, such as STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, CHILDHOOD'S END, FOUNDATION, RINGWORLD, STAR TREK novels, DARKEYE: CYBER HUNTER and so forth, take you. All are extremely imaginative and have visually-gratifying narrative/dialogue not too far removed from graphic novels such as this or any other. Broaden your minds, but hang on to the graphic novels as well!
Rating: 4
Summary: Ol' Greenskin kicks out Namor and gets his own comic book
Comment: When I think of "The Incredible Hulk" it starts from the period covered in "The Essential Hulk, Volume 2," when Herb Trimpe was doing the pencils and John Severin was doing the inks. This is not to be confused with the period right before that when Herb Trimpe was doing the inks over Marie Severin's pencils. This only sounds confusing because we are talking about the Trimpe-Severin period and not the Severin-Trimpe period, and while this is the same Trimpe it is different Severins, although they are brother and sister. Collected in this volume are "Tales to Astonish" #92-101, at which point the Hulk and the rest of the Marvel superheroes doing time shares in comics like the Sub-Mariner, Captain America and Doctor Strange, got their own titles. Namor's title started with issue #1 while "The Incredible Hulk" picked up at #102 and we continue through #117.
The Hulk benefited from getting a full twenty pages each month instead of the ten page more so that the other characters. That was because with Captain America, Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Dr. Strange the Marvel writers and artists came up with pretty good multi-part stories. However, a key part of the Hulk is the whole transformation bit back forth from the Hulk to Bruce Banner, and that is hard to do every issue when you only have ten pages. Stan Lee does the writing for most of the issues and if you compare these stories to those in Volume 1 of "The Essential Hulk" you will find that the main thing is upping the ante on the Hulk's opponents. This time around Ol' Greenskin gets the Silver Surfer, the Rhino, the Missing Link, the Mandarin, Ka-Zar, the Sand-Man, and the return of the Leader. There is a lot of borrowing from other comic books, but when you are coming up with lame original villains like the Space Parasite, this is not a bad thing. The best story lines of the bunch are the multi-part story with the High Evolutionary and the one in the land of the Inhumans in the first "Hulk" annual, although his best fight is with the Sub-Mariner, which is what took place in the second to last issue of "Tales to Astonish" that they shared together, #100 (nice touch).
The issues collected her are a definite improvement over Volume 1, but the glory days are still to come. Hopefully we can get to Volume 3 in this series so you can see for yourself, but only Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four have gotten that far so far. I do not mind that these collections are just in black & white because I appreciate the economics involved and if you want your favorite title in color the Marvel Masterworks series is getting around to those as well. You just have to be patient, because it might be a long haul. Final Note: Great choice of using the Hulk from #105 for the cover of this collection.
Rating: 4
Summary: An intriguing Essential collection from Marvel
Comment: The Marvel Essential series is perfect for both novice comics fans and the hardcore faithful, providing 500+ pages of comics for less than .... Some of the collections vary in quality; the first Hulk collection is a bit spotty, with weak writing and inconsistent reproduction. But Hulk vol. 2 is a much better package. The reproduction is uniformly crisp, and the quality of the stories improve greatly. Granted, the stories aren't as deep or rewarding as Peter David's long run (or even Bill Mantlo's 80's run), but it's a fun romp nonetheless. If you're looking for more good fun, I highly recommend Marvel's Essential Fantastic Four vol. 3 and the Essential Spider-man collections (all are wonderful!). You can't go wrong here!
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Title: The Essential Fantastic Four (Volume 3) by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby ISBN: 0785107827 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: ESSENTIAL THOR by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby ISBN: 0785107614 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Essential Incredible Hulk by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko ISBN: 0785109935 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Essential Captain America by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, George Tuska, Dick Ayers, John Romita, Jack Sparling ISBN: 0785107401 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Essential Spider-Man Volume 4 by Stan Lee, John, Sr. Romita, Gil Kane ISBN: 0785107606 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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