Hulk: The Incredible Guide (Marvel Comics) [Hardcover]

Tom DeFalco (Author)

Book Description

Series: Marvel Comics

Capturing the legend of this amazing Marvel Comics superhero, Hulk: The Incredible Guide traces the Hulk's 40year career, with special emphasis on the latest developments and characters. Each chapter deals with a different decade of the Hulk's story, from the original comic book to the long running 1970's television series, as well as focusing on the upcoming feature film. Discover the secret of the Hulk's superhuman powers, the terrifying multiple personalities that manifest from deep within Bruce Banner's tormented psyche, and much more.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 5 Up-A guide to the comic-book universe surrounding the big green guy. While the book focuses on a number of characters, including the many villains in the Hulk world, it also covers in less detail the history and origin of his character and various incarnations in the comics. The book is designed for browsing and maximum visual interest. The illustrations all come from the DC comics and include a few spreads of particularly spectacular images of the Hulk enraged. At times the text reads like an afterthought. A constant reminder that this is really little more than a piece of a much larger marketing scheme is the large number of characters with the ubiquitous symbol following their names.
Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ
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About the Author

Former editor in chief of Marvel Comics, Tom DeFalco has written about SpiderMan and other characters for over twenty years. His books include DK's SpiderMan: The Ultimate Guide, as well as Fantastic Four: Nobody Gets Out Alive and Thor: Alone Among the Celestials for Marvel.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc. (May 5, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789492601
• ISBN-13: 978-0789492609
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 10.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #886,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Guide, May 25, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Hulk: The Incredible Guide (Marvel Comics) (Hardcover)

Tom DeFalco does a great job again (as he did with Spider-Man The Ultimate Guide), and I consider this book the best Hulk encyclopedia out there. Precise, accurate, giving proper credit to all Hulk artists, major or not, with tons of great images, easy-and-fun-to-read, in summary, a great buy. I could not say the same about the Hulk Marvel Encyclopedia by Kit Kiefer, which is a true dissapointment, a 3/5 stars book (tops), deserved by the great artwork on it, and the sections about Hulk merchandising, the TV series, and the 2k3 movie. Kit's book is sometimes inaccurate (for ex., it says that on the first issues, Banner changed into the Hulk when he was asleep, page 28, but it was nightfall that triggered the changes), calls the Hulk a 'keep-it-simple-stupid-character' (page 22), ridiculizes Peter David's run saying about his comics: 'they were not the Hulk', does not even mention Sal Buscema, the most prolific Hulk artist of all, but does mention his late brother John who probably did 3 issues maximum. It's your money, but I suggest you get DeFalco's guide, a true homage to the incredible Hulk.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hulk Guide Great Recap of History, May 29, 2003

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J. Smith "JThree" (Williston, North Dakota United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hulk: The Incredible Guide (Marvel Comics) (Hardcover)

Mr. DeFalco's latest Guide for the Incredible Hulk shows a tremendous amount of research and skill in editing in focusing on the history and surrounding chararacters of the Hulk mythos.

I confess this is my first Marvel DK Book, that I've looked at. Previously, I've spent more time examining the DC ones, (Superman, Batman, the Justice League, etc). And I have to confess that background gives me a slant.

Unlike DC, Marvel did not trash or recon its history as extensively as the Superman Group did in the mid-eighties, so their continuity is far more coherent than in DC. I confess I love that.

It's a good read. Mr. Defalco covers the major storylines, with recommendations on some of his best-loved favorites. There were a few two-age spreads that I thought could have been used for more textual information. But that's just my humble opinion.

Of course, this is to tie-in with the upcoming Hulk movie release (smart move, wait till a major publicity event is coming to relaunch books like these).

I look forward to more such books from both DC and Marvel. From Marvel: The Fantastic Four and Daredevel, From DC: Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel.

Not bad.

JThree

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hulk: The Impressive Guide, January 1, 2004

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"tucosgunwasempty" (Salem, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hulk: The Incredible Guide (Marvel Comics) (Hardcover)

I got this for Christmas and just finished reading it. The format of this book is great. It starts with basic information on Bruce Banner, The Hulk, Hulk's powers, Betty Banner, and a few other main characters throughout Hulk's history. Then it is broken down into decades starting with the 1960's and going up through the 2000's. Each decade details major events, allies, and of course enemies of the Hulk. This set-up is perfect. The art is taken mostly from the comics and there are samples of pages added featuring the spotlighted character. All in all this is well worth the price for a fan of The Hulk.