Marvel Comics

The Incredible Hulk Omnibus Vol. 1 returns to Bruce Banner’s earliest tragedy: science, fear, military pursuit and a monster who is both threat and victim. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby build the Hulk as a raw Marvel contradiction, a figure of rage whose sadness is already visible underneath the destruction. This edition works best when read as a study of anger with consequences: every transformation says something about fear, control and the people left dealing with the damage afterward.

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.