Issue Description

While attending an AIDS rally, Hulk's former sidekick Jim Wilson is attacked. An enraged Hulk sees this and takes Jim back to the Mount for medical treatment. Meanwhile, at her job, Betty receives a call from a young man who just found out that he was infected with HIV and was planning to kill himself. Hulk assigns the top Pantheon doctors to begin treatment on Jim, but they tell him that it is useless and that they cannot prevent his death. Betty receives another call from the same man later in the night and continues to try and talk him out of his suicide attempt. Ultimately, the man parks his car on remote train tracks while Betty listens to the train hit his car. Jim pleads with the Hulk to give him some of his blood to save his life, but Hulk does not want Jim to turn into a Hulk-like creature. When the Hulk lied to Jim to give him hope, Jim saw through the lie and apologized for trying to pressure Hulk into giving him his blood before passing away.

#26 on Wizard Magazine's "100 Best Single Issue Comics Since You Were Born" list.

The Incredible Hulk (1968)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

Continued from Tales to Astonish Vol.1 which was originally one of several anthology comics published by Marvel in the 1960's featuring one-shot monsters in their own tales. Over the years the series began to focus more upon some of the anti-heroes still famous to this day such as the Sub-Mariner and The Incredible Hulk. That is why, after 101 issues, that series changed its name to The Incredible Hulk with issue #102. Under this new name the series lasted thirty more years until it finally concluded with issue #474. The series was then revamped with a new number one and a new title, simply called Hulk (1998).

Although it started out as Tales to Astonish, this is actually the second volume to be entitled "The Incredible Hulk", the first, The Incredible Hulk (1962), having begun publication six years earlier, although it only lasted six issues.

Collected EditionsMarvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude (#271)Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Team-Up (#271)Guardians of the Galaxy Solo Classic Omnibus (#271)The Incredible Hulk: Crossroads (#301-313)Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (#314-319)Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus (#383-385)The Incredible Hulk Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past (#397-406)

Marvel Masterworks: Incredible Hulk

Vol. 3: #102Vol. 4: #103-110, Annual #1Vol. 5: #111-121Vol. 6: #122-134

Hulk by Bill Mantlo

Pardoned (#269-285) Regression (#286-300, Annual #12)

Visionaries John Byrne

Vol. 1 (#314-319)

Visionaries Peter David:

Vol. 1 (#331-339)Vol. 2 (#340-348)Vol. 3 (#349-354)Vol. 4 (#355-363)Vol. 5 (#364-372, Annual #16)Vol. 6 (#373-382)Vol. 7 (#383-389)Vol. 8 (#390-396, Annual #18)

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