"Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and their Marvel Bullpen friends invented an exciting new approach to comic books. Together, they created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers and many more of the greatest super heroes ever! The Marvel Masterworks present each character's adventures from the very beginning"--Back cover.

"Witness the birth of the green goliath known as the Incredible Hulk! Caught in the heart of a nuclear explosion, victim of gamma radiation gone wild, Dr. Robert Bruce Banner now finds himself transformed during times of stress into the dark personification of his repressed rage and fury! Is the brutish Hulk man or monster...or is he both?! Find out along with his only friend, Rick Jones, and some of his earliest, unfortunate enemies -- including the terrible Toad Men, the ancient Tyrannus, the Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime, and perhaps worst of all, General "Thunderbolt" Ross... father of Betty Ross, the woman that Bruce Banner loves!"-- Amazon.