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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.

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.