Hulk #178 (August, 1974)
As regular readers of this blog may recall, I was never a regular buyer of The Incredible Hulk, back in the day. While I always enjoyed the character when he appeared as a guest star, or in a team setting à la the Defenders, for whatever reason his Jekyll & Hyde-cum-Frankenstein premise never had much appeal to me as the basis for a lead character. Or maybe I simply preferred my superheroes to have a little more going on upstairs. In any case, after dipping my toe in the water one time back in 1969, I had since refrained from picking up Hulk except on those occasions when it crossed over with another series I was currently buying, or when it tied up leftover plotlines from a canceled series I had been buying. Read More