Incredible Hulk in the 60s
After a publishing deal that restricted titles Marvel could published was lifted the company was able to expand on the number of titles they could print a month. At the time, the Hulk had gained a great deal of popularity within the pages of Tales to Astonish. As such, when Marvel canceled their anthology titles in favor of solo superhero books, the Hulk replaced Tales to Astonish, continuing the former titles numbering.
Issue #102, written by Gary Freidrich and drawn by Marie Severin concluded a tale started in Tales to Astonish which saw the Hulk in Asgard fighting the Enchantress and the Executioner. Friedrich and Severine would work together on the next two issues pitting the Hulk against the Space Parasite, and the Rhino. Roy Thomas, Bill Everett and Archie Goodwin penned the following two-part story that saw the Hulk fight the Missing Link.
In issue #107, Herb Tremp began his lengthy stint penciling on the Incredible Hulk. He and Gary Friedrich would work together one issue (where the Mandarin sets his sights on the Hulk). Stan Lee returned to writing the Hulk with issue #108. Under Lee, the Hulk fought the Galaxy Master, the Sandman, the Mandarin, and also brought back the Leader for a three-part epic. This was followed by a rematch with the Sub-Mariner in issue #118 and a two-part story against the renegade Inhumans (a rematch between them and the Hulk from the same year’s annual) The decade closed itself out with the Hulk sparring with the world-famous Fantastic Four, setting te stage for more epic battles to come.
