Marvel Comics

Al Ewing reinterprets the Hulk as a horror comic. Radical premise: by day Banner is dead, by night he returns. Mixes body horror, existential reflection, political critique and superheroic action in one package. Art by Joe Bennett in line with Bernie Wrightson on Swamp Thing. Multiple Eisner awards and contemporary cult work.

Second classic volume with Stan Lee and Herb Trimpe. Trimpe visually defined the Hulk for a whole generation of readers in the 70s and is the cartoonist we always come back to as a classic reference. Clashes with the military, Leader, Juggernaut. The Hulk before Peter David came to psychoanalyse him.

John Byrne's She-Hulk run is a landmark in meta-comics. Jennifer Walters doesn't just break the fourth wall — she treats it as architectural. Byrne wrote and drew a series that was simultaneously a superhero comic, a comedy about superhero comics, and a formal experiment in what the medium could do. It arrived in the late 1980s when this kind of self-awareness was genuinely radical. Collects Sensational She-Hulk #1–8 and #31–50, showcasing Byrne's complete run on the title.

Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley reimagined the Hulk for a new era with a concept that is both simple and genuinely disturbing: Bruce Banner has trapped the Savage Hulk inside a mental construct resembling a massive starship, piloting him like a weapon. The Starship Hulk premise allowed Cates to explore the Banner/Hulk relationship in a fresh way while Ottley — best known for his decade-long run on Invincible — brought explosive, large-scale action that pushed the book's visual ambition to new heights. This is one of the most distinctive modern Hulk runs, collecting a complete creative vision in a single oversized volume.

Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness delivered one of the most visually spectacular Hulk runs in the character's history, built around a simple but electrifying premise: a Red Hulk. The mysterious Rulk tore through the Marvel Universe, defeating Thor, Iron Man, and the Watcher himself in rapid succession, and no one knew who was under the red skin. This omnibus collects the full Loeb run that launched the Red Hulk concept and triggered a wave of gamma-powered characters. McGuinness's art is pure kinetic energy — oversized, dynamic, and designed for maximum impact. It's a blockbuster run that prioritizes spectacle, delivered with genuine craft.

The third and culminating omnibus of Peter David's legendary Hulk run brings together the payoff of years of psychological groundwork. This volume centers on the emergence of the 'Professor Hulk' — the merged personality that combines Banner's intelligence with the Hulk's strength and a measured emotional stability.

Peter David's run on the Incredible Hulk is widely considered the definitive modern interpretation of the character, and this second omnibus sits at the heart of it. David pushed the book into genuinely complex psychological territory, exploring the multiple-personality disorder at the core of Bruce Banner's condition. This volume includes the landmark 'Pardoned' arc and the emergence of the grey Hulk persona Joe Fixit, a Las Vegas enforcer who represents Banner's id stripped of heroic pretense. The storytelling is mature, darkly funny, and emotionally intelligent in ways that superhero comics of the late 1980s rarely managed. Essential reading for any serious Hulk collector.

The origin of one of Marvel's most enduring characters, presented in its purest form. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby launched the Hulk in 1962 as a tragic figure — scientist Bruce Banner transformed by gamma radiation into a creature driven by rage and fear. This omnibus collects the character's earliest adventures, including the original six-issue Hulk series and key appearances in Tales to Astonish, capturing a period when Marvel was rewriting the rules of superhero fiction. Kirby's dynamic layouts and Lee's emotionally charged scripting give these stories a raw, urgent energy that still holds up. An indispensable piece of Marvel history and the foundation for every Hulk story told since.

Classic third volume with Roy Thomas on script and Herb Trimpe on art: the era when the Hulk ceases to be "that weird Marvel character" and becomes a cultural phenomenon, culminating in the 1970s TV series. Thomas introduces emotional nuances that Stan Lee had barely explored, paving the way for Peter David.

Closing of the longest run ever written about the Hulk: 12 uninterrupted years of Peter David on the title. It collects the final arcs of the run, the process of defusion of the Hulk's personalities and the narrative closure of all the threads that David had opened for more than a decade. End of the cycle.

The moment when Peter David merges the three personalities of the Hulk into a single entity: Professor Hulk. Body of the original, intelligence of Banner, cunning of Grey. Considered by many to be the best Hulk ever written and the version Marvel Studios adopted for Avengers: Endgame. Dale Keown on the art.

Peter David takes Hulk in 1987 and plants the thesis of dissociative disorder: Savage Hulk, Grey Hulk, Banner as separate personalities. This theory was adopted as canon in later film, television and comics. Art by Dale Keown, one of the key names in the Hulk aesthetic of the 90s. Beginning of one of the longest runs ever written about a Marvel character.