Essential Hulk Volume 7

When the members of the villainous Corporation set their sights on the Green Goliath, they send the manipulative Moonstone to turn the Hulk's couch time with Doc Samson into a destructive rampage, imprison him on Alcatraz Island, and trick ol' Greenskin into going toe-to-toe with Machine Man! Then, on the run from Gamma Base, the Hulk finds himself used as a gamma-irradiated battery by new foe Goldbug and old nemesis Tyrannus! Plus: The Hulk is enraged to learn Gamma Base has the remains of his departed love Jarella -- and no one, not even the visiting Captain Mar-Vell, will stop him from giving her a proper burial. Guest-starring Captain America, the Falcon, Quasar, the Angel & Iceman, Power Man & Iron Fist, and Alpha Flight's Sasquatch!

COLLECTING: Incredible Hulk #226-248, Incredible Hulk Annual #7-9, and Captain America (1968) #230 -- written by Roger Stern, Steven Grant, Elliot S. Maggin, Doug Moench, and Bill Mantlo; and illustrated by Sal Buscema, John Byrne, Jim Mooney, Carmine Infantino, and Steve Ditko.

"My biggest favorites as a kid in the 70s were THE INCREDIBLE HULK and THE FLASH. The Hulk had the edge, because it was at a time when guys like Len Wein and Roger Stern [were] doing some great work on the book, and Sal's pencils were some of his best." -- Darrell DeWeese

"My all-time favorite [Hulk] story was INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL #7 with Angel, Iceman, and the Master Mold Sentinel. I remember reading that thing over and over at the store and finally, I bought it and read it over and over till the pages started falling out." -- Mark Paniccia, Marvel Comics editor

"To date this is the most recent Essential volume to be released and, unless the line resumes in the future, it will stand as the very last .... The Hulk is not the easiest character to write ... but here there's a sense of direction and purpose that actually develops all the characters going forward. As a general representative of the Essential series, this volume contains a lot of the standards such as overlapping two distinct runs on a title as well as including key crossover issues. It's a reasonable representative of the series as a whole." -- Tim Roll-Pickering

"The most recent of the Essential volumes takes us into the beginning of [Bill] Mantlo's run [on the Incredible Hulk]. I'm not too much of a fan of the Essential volumes because I'd prefer color reprints ... but often, as seen here, they do have the most collected [issues] out of any other collections." -- The Omnibus Collector

"The Hulk's single-minded hunting of [Curtiss] Jackson is very cool, and Stern handles the aspect of the hippies no longer living up to their ideals and being intolerant of the Hulk nicely as well. And of course, lots of nice fight scenes and destruction." -- Comics Chronology