Updated: September 22, 2023

The original series was cancelled with issue #6 ( March 1963 ). Lee had written each story, with Jack Kirby penciling the first five issues and Steve Ditko penciling and inking the sixth.

Tales to Astonish

Cover of Tales to Astonish #60 ( Oct. 1964 ). Art by Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky A year and a half after the series was cancelled, the Hulk became one of two features in Tales to Astonish, beginning in issue #60 ( Oct. 1964 ).

This new Hulk feature was initially scripted by writer-editor Lee and illustrated by the team of penciller Steve Ditko and inker George Roussos. Other artists later in this run included Jack Kirby from #68â€"87 ( June 1965 â€" Oct. 1966 ), doing full pencils or, more often, layouts for other artists; Gil Kane, credited as "Scott Edwards", in #76 (February 1966), his first Marvel Comics work; Bill Everett inking Kirby in #78â€"84 ( Febâ€"Oct. 1966 ); and John Buscema penciling Kirby's layouts in #85â€"87. The Tales to Astonish run introduced the supervillains the Leader, who would become the Hulk's nemesis, and the Abomination, another gamma-irradiated being. Comics artist Marie Severin finished out the Hulk's run in Tales to Astonish.

Beginning with issue #102 ( April 1968 ) the book was retitled The Incredible Hulk ( vol. 2 ) and ran until 1999, when Marvel cancelled the series and restarted the title with the shorter-titled Hulk #1.