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Issue: Hulk: Heart of the Atom #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2008
 
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Variant: premiere edition
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Premiere ClassicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780785130871
UPC/EAN: 978078513087152999
Price: $29.99 USD
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Content Items: 32 (12 stories, 2 covers)
Editor(s): Mark Beazley (collection editor)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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12 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #140 [U.S. Cover Price] published June 1971 was The Brute... That Shouted Love... at the Heart of the Atom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #148 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1972 was But Tomorrow -- the Sun Shall Die! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #156 published October 1972 was Holocaust at the Heart of the Atom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #202 [25ยข Cover Price] published August 1976 was Havoc at the Heart of the Atom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #203 published September 1976 was Assault of Psyklop! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #205 published November 1976 was Do Not Forsake Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #206 published December 1976 was A Man-Brute Berserk! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #207 published January 1977 was Alone Against the Defenders! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #246 [Direct] published April 1980 was The Hero and the Hulk! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #247 [Direct] published May 1980 was Jarella's World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Incredible Hulk #248 [Direct] published June 1980 was How Green My Garden Grows! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWhat If? #23 [Direct] published October 1980 was What If...Hulk's Girlfriend Jarella Had Not Died? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Dave Cockrum
Inker(s): Dave Cockrum
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]
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From Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #206 published December 1976
was A Man-Brute Berserk! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema ?
Inker(s): Sal Buscema ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella
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Pages: 3
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Incredible Hulk #140

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe
Inker(s): Herb Trimpe
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella
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Pages: 1
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The Brute That Shouted Love at the Heart of the Atom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harlan Ellison (Plot); Roy Thomas (Script)
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe
Inker(s): Sam Grainger
Colorist(s): Mimi Gold ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; GUESTS: Jarella; Torla; Holi; Moli; The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rgoers]; Thor; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Goliath [Clint Barton]]; Falcon; VILLAINS: Psyklop; Warthos; Visis
Synopsis: Hulk is shrunk down to infinitesimal size and enters Jarella's world where he regains Bruce Banner's mind, becomes a hero and is betrothed to the queen; that is, until Psyklop shows up to ruin things.
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Pages: 19
Disclose Notes: Continued from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #88. Billy Batson and "Shazam" mentioned. Story inspired by a 1922 Ray Cummings story.
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The Girl in the Emerald Atom!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe (signed)
Inker(s): John Severin (signed)
Colorist(s): Steve Englehart
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella; Fialan
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Pages: 1
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But Tomorrow the Sun Shall Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Chris Claremont (Plot Assist); Archie Goodwin
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe
Inker(s): John Severin
Colorist(s): Mimi Gold
Letterer(s): Art Simek
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella; Dr. Peter Corbeau (Introduction); Lord Visis (Villain); Fialan (Villain; Introduction); Betty Ross; General Thunderbolt Ross; Major Glenn Talbot; Hulkbusters (Introduction); Torla; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Nick Fury; "Dum-Dum" Dugan (Cameo)
Synopsis: Bruce Banner is cured of the radiation that makes him the Hulk, but the process has caused the sun to become unstable. Jarella is sent to Earth.
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Pages: 22
Job Number: 777 Z
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Reprise  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe
Inker(s): John Severin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella; the Shaper of Worlds
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: recapping the events from The Incredible Hulk #155 (Marvel, 1968 Series) when the Shaper gave Hulk a dream of Jarella illustrated with panels from issue.
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It's Hulk Vs. Hulk--At the Heart of the Atom!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe
Inker(s): Herb Trimpe
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]
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Pages: 1
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Holocaust At the Heart of the Atom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Archie Goodwin
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe
Inker(s): Sal Trapani
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella; Torla; Betty Ross; Glenn Talbot; Lord Visis (villain; introduction; death); Krylar (villain; death)
Synopsis: Hulk arrives on Jarella's world with the mental acuity of Bruce Banner. He finds the city of K'ai in ruins and discovers that Jarella has been captured by the treacherous Lord Visis. Hulk rescues his lady love and leads her people in revolt. That is, until Visis teams up with master assassin Krylar who has a weapon that makes one battle one's darkest fears. The weapon is turned on the Hulk and Hulk with Banner's mind finds himself facing his old brutish self. Jarella's magicians counter by ending the spell that makes Hulk smart. Pym's serum wears off and Hulk grows back to normal size.
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Pages: 20
Job Number: 996 Z
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Havoc at the Heart of the Atom!!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Buscema
Inker(s): John Romita
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dan Crespi; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella
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Pages: 1
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Havoc at the Heart of the Atom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema (layouts); Joe Staton (finished art)
Inker(s): Joe Staton
Colorist(s): Glynis Wein
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Irving Watanabe
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella; Doc Samson; Villain: God of the Mountain (Introduction, Death); Betty Talbot [Betty Ross]; Major Glenn Talbot; Psyklop
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Pages: 17
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Assault on Psyklop!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): John Romita
Inker(s): John Romita
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dan Crespi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Psyklop
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Pages: 1
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Assault of Psyklop!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Joe Staton (finished art)
Inker(s): Joe Staton
Colorist(s): Glynis Wein
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino (page one); Irving Watanabe
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella; Doc Samson; General Thunderbolt Ross; Major Glenn Talbot; Holi; Moli; Psyklop (Death); The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Giant-Man; Falcon] (cameo, flashback)
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Pages: 17
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In Savage Combat With the Crypto-Man!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe
Inker(s): Dan Adkins
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dan Crespi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella; Crypto-Man
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Pages: 1
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Do Not Forsake Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Joe Staton (finished art)
Inker(s): Joe Staton
Colorist(s): Glynis Wein
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella (dies); Betty Ross; Major Glenn Talbot; General "Thunderbolt" Ross; Doc Samson; Crypto-Man (Villain, robot); Crypto-Man's controller
Synopsis: Bruce and Jarella are out for a lovely afternoon jaunt when they run across the Crypto-Man robbing a bank. Jarella is killed during the fight with Crypto-Man as she tries to save a little boy's life.
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A Man-Brute Berserk!

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Credits
Penciller(s): Dave Cockrum (signed)
Inker(s): Dave Cockrum (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dan Crespi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]
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Pages: 1
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A Man-Brute Berserk!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Joe Staton (finished art)
Inker(s): Joe Staton
Colorist(s): Glynis Wein
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Editor(s): Len Wein
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; General Thunderbolt Ross; Doc Samson; Major Glenn Talbot; Betty Ross Talbot; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Agent Clay Quartermain; Defenders [Dr. Strange; Nighthawk; Valkyrie; Red Guardian] (cameo)
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Pages: 17
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Alone Against the Defenders!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dave Cockrum (signed); John Romita (alterations)
Inker(s): Dave Cockrum (signed); John Romita (alterations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dan Crespi
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Defenders [Dr. Strange; Nighthawk; Valkyrie; Red Guardian]
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Pages: 1
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Alone Against the Defenders!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Joe Staton (finished art)
Inker(s): Joe Staton
Colorist(s): Glynis Wein
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino (page one); Irving Watanabe
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Defenders [Dr. Strange; Red Guardian; Valkyrie; Nighthawk]; Betty Ross Talbot; General Thunderbolt Ross; Doc Samson; S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Quartermain; Major Glenn Talbot (cameo); Wong
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Pages: 17
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[untitled]

Reprise  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott
Colorist(s): Glynis Wein
Letterer(s): Typeset; John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Des; Jarella
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Recap of the events from The Incredible Hulk #240 (Marvel, 1968 Series) with reproduction of panels from the book.
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The Hero and the Hulk!

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Credits
Penciller(s): Rich Buckler
Inker(s): Jack Abel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Irving Watanabe
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Captain Marvel; Glenn Talbot [Mandroid]
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The Hero and the Hulk!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Mantlo
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema
Inker(s): Sal Buscema
Colorist(s): Ben Sean
Letterer(s): Diana Albers
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Doc Samson [Leonard Samson]; Thunderbolt Ross [Thaddeus Ross]; Jarella (corpse); Hulkbusters [Glen Talbot; Captain]; Fialan (flashback); Psyklop (flashback); Crypto-Man (flashback)
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Pages: 17
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Incredible Hulk #247

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Rich Buckler
Inker(s): Al Milgrom
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]
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Pages: 1
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Jarella's World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Mantlo
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema
Inker(s): Sal Buscema
Colorist(s): Ben Sean
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): The Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Jarella (deceased); Doc Samson; General Thunderbolt Ross; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Colonel Glenn Talbot; Holi; Moli; Torla; The Gardener; Psyklop (cameo, flashback); Fred Sloan
Synopsis: Hulk returns to K'ai to bury Jarella but finds a rocky wasteland rather than the fertile planet he left behind.
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Pages: 17
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How Green Grows...The Gardener!

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Credits
Penciller(s): Michael Golden
Inker(s): Michael Golden
Colorist(s): Michael Golden ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Gardener
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Pages: 1
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How Green My Garden Grows!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Mantlo
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema
Inker(s): Sal Buscema
Colorist(s): Ben Sean
Letterer(s): Jim Novak
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella (as a corpse); Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Doc Samson; Betty Ross; Elysius; Rick Jones; Thunderbolt Ross; Gardener; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Glenn Talbot; Adam Warlock; Stranger; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Thanos; Thor; The Thing; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
Synopsis: Hulk brings Jarella's body back to her sub-atomic home world of K'ai to be buried. With most of the planet barren, he takes her to the only fertile valley left but finds it is tended by the cosmic being known as the Gardner who tells him to leave. After a lot of talking and a few fights, Hulk hits the Gardener so hard it knocks the Soul Gem off of his head. Hulk throws the gem into the center of the planet, miraculously restoring the entire world back to vibrant health. After Jarella is buried and Hulk has been returned to Earth, a beautiful green flower grows upon her grave.
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Pages: 17
Disclose Notes: Gardener's second appearance. Gardener tells the Hulk a succinct recap of the Thanos War and the Soul Gem.
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[untitled]

Reprise  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Recap of the events in The Incredible Hulk #351 and #352 (Marvel, 1968 Series) when the Hulk once more visited Jarella's world.
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What If the Hulk Had Become a Barbarian?

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): John Buscema [as JB] (signed)
Inker(s): Al Milgrom [as AM] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Rick Parker ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella
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Pages: 1
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What If...Hulk's Girlfriend Jarella Had Not Died?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Peter Gillis
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe
Inker(s): Mike Esposito
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Watcher; Jarella; Clay Quartermain; Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Glen Talbot; Hank Pym; Lord Visis
Synopsis: Jarella lives and the Hulk goes to live in her world.
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Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Based on The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #203.
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Jarella

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mark Gruenwald; Peter Sanderson
Penciller(s): Sandy Plunkett
Inker(s): Joe Rubinstein; Phil Lord; Rodney Ramos; Hector Collazo
Colorist(s): Andy Yanchus
Letterer(s): Brenda Mings
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Jarella
Character(s): Jarella
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Pages: 3
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Gardener

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mark Gruenwald (Head Writer)
Penciller(s): Sal Buscema
Inker(s): Joe Rubinstein
Colorist(s): Andy Yanchus
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Gardener
Character(s): Gardener
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Pages: 1
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Incredible Hulk #202

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): John Buscema
Inker(s): John Romita
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hulk
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Jarella
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover reprinted without text or logos.

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