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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published July 1962
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Hulk; Toad Men; Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #8 [partially obscured]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #8; in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #1; in Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books, 1978 Series) #81446-X [1] (April 1978)

24 page Hulk story "The Terror of the Toad Men"

Characters FEATURE: Hulk (Brief Origin); GUESTS: Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Rick Jones; VILLAINS: Toad Men (1st)
Synopsis The Toad Men arrive on earth and capture its brightest scientist to find out what they would be up against if they tried to conquer the planet; Unfortunately, they pick Bruce Banner who tears into them aboard their spacecraft when the sun is blocked and he transforms into the Hulk; Shooting the ship down, Ross thinks that Bruce is a traitor as he is the only person they find aboard; The Hulk fights the Toad Men once again but it is the brain of Bruce Banner that repels the alien invasion and clears his name with the military.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Art Simek
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group; Story introduces the underground bunker that is used to hold the Hulk during his transformation.
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #8 [6 pp.]; in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #9 [8 pp.]; in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #10 [10 pp.]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #8; in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #1; in Incredibile Hulk, L' (Editoriale Corno, 1980 series) #11; in Incredible Hulk, The (Pocket Books, 1978 Series) #81446-X [1] (April 1978)