It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Hulk omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.
For the next two weeks, I’ll be covering Marvel’s entire publishing history by mapping missing omnibus volumes to fill in every gap in your Marvel oversize shelf! That’s all leading to the kickoff of the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot on Near Mint Condition on April 28, 2025.
Hulk has scored just one newly-announced omnibus in 2025, The Incredible Hulk Vol. 3 in the classic line as it cracks into his Bronze Age material. That leaves us with plenty of Hulk books to vote on! He is considerably under-collected as a character compared to this cousin Jennifer Walters – She-Hulk has some pretty outstanding coverage in omnibus!
If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for a list of books vetted by a gang of the biggest mapping nerds on the internet with explanations from yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet.
Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!
The book titles and mapping in this post were curated with the help of BrandXK! BrandXK proudly supports The Hero Initiative, an incredible charity that helps to support comic creators in their times of need – especially with medical expenses.
This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:
- Bronze Age Hulk
- Hulk: Incredible Hulk Vol. 4 (1973 – 1976) [MMW 10-12 AKA by Wein, Thomas, Trimpe, & Buscema]
- Hulk: Incredible Hulk Vol. 5 (1977 – 1979) [MMW 13-15 AKA by Roger Stern & Sal Buscema]
- Hulk: Rampaging Hulk Magazine & Hulk Comic (UK) (1977 – 1985)
- Hulk: Incredible Hulk by Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema Vol. 1 (1979 & on) [AKA Vol. 6, MMW 16 & on]
- Modern Hulk
- Hulk by Paul Jenkins (2000 – 2001) [AKA Dogs of War omnibus]
- Hulk by Bruce Jones (2001 – 2004) [fits between Jenkins & PAD Vol. 5]
- Hulk: Incredible Hulks by Greg Pak (2008 – 2011) [follows World War Hulk; includes Fall of the Hulks and World War Hulks]
- Hulk by Aaron, Waid & Duggan (2011 – 2015)
- She-Hulk
- She-Hulk: Sensational She-Hulk, Vol. 1 (1989 – 1991) [recollects Sensational based on Epic mapping]
- She-Hulk: Sensational She-Hulk Vol. 2 (1992 – 2002) [recollects Sensational based on Epic mapping]
- She-Hulk by Soule & Tamaki (2014 – 2020) [includes A-Force]
- Skaar, Red Hulk & Red She-Hulk, Brawn, & Weapon H
- Hulk: Skaar, Son of Hulk (2007 – 2012) [AKA Sons of Hulk]
- Hulk: Red Hulk & Red She-Hulk by Jeff Parker (2010 – 2013)
- Hulk: Amadeus Cho, The Totally Awesome Hulk by Greg Pak (2016 – 2018)
- X-Men: ResurrXion – Weapon X & Weapon H by Greg Pak (2017 – 2019) [includes Hulkverines]
Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes on the Tigereyes poll. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period, NOT an endorsement of a specific map. Maps are presented as a proof of concept and to help you build your personal reading list.
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Hulk Omnibus Mapping: Bronze Age Hulk
Hulk’s classic omnibus line had an early start with The Incredible Hulk Vol. 1 in 2008, but then a fifteen year wait for The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 in 2023! That first omnibus was an incredibly slow seller that hung around in bargain bins for years in the early days of omnibus collecting. Plus, Hulk’s Silver Age material is seen as among the weakest of Marvel’s marquee heroes, which meant Marvel wasn’t in a hurry to continue collecting it.
However, now that Marvel’s major Silver Age runs have been incredibly well-covered in omnibus, Marvel has finally continued the classic line, with a reprint of Vol. 1 in 2022, Vol. 2 in 2023, and The Incredible Hulk Vol. 3 out later this year. See Guide to Hulk – Bruce Banner for more details.
Can we keep up an every-second-year release of classic Incredible Hulk volumes… or even increase the pace? Your votes could be the deciding factor for Marvel!
Hulk: Incredible Hulk Vol. 4 (1973 – 1976) [MMW 10-12 AKA by Wein, Thomas, Trimpe, & Buscema]
All three Hulk volumes so far have obeyed the “3 Masterworks” rule for collecting the contents of Marvel Masterworks into omnibus. With the Masterworks line mostly lining up with creator changes on Incredible Hulk (1968), it’s very likely it will continue to obey the rule.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect the mid-70s of Incredible Hulk (1968) into an omnibus, featuring writing by Len Wein and Roy Thomas, art by Herb Trimpe and Sal Buscema, and the debut of certain well-known Canadian mutant!
This would collect Incredible Hulk (1968) #171-209 & Annual 5 and material from Marvel Treasury Edition (1974) #5 (and maybe material from FOOM (1973) #1-2).
Hulk: Incredible Hulk Vol. 5 (1977 – 1979) [MMW 13-15 AKA by Roger Stern & Sal Buscema]
The next run of three Incredible Hulk Masterworks contain the entirety of Roger Stern’s run on the title, as drawn almost entirely by Sal Buscema!
A vote for this book is a vote not only to collect Stern & Buscema’s run on Hulk in omnibus, but a vote for Marvel to hurry up and get to it when it comes to cranking out these classic Incredible Hulk volumes!
This would collect Incredible Hulk (1968) #210-244 & Annual 6-7, Captain America (1968) #230, and material from Marvel Comics Calendar 1979 and Marvel Treasury Edition (1974) #17, 20, & 24
Hulk: Rampaging Hulk Magazine & Hulk Comic (UK) (1977 – 1985)
Rampaging Hulk (1976) was a 27-issue US magazine, later renamed to simply “The Hulk!” to coincide with the incredibly popular The Incredible Hulk TV series staring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. It was mainly written by Doug Moench, but not all of the content was Hulk stories – it also included other one-shot tales and magazine content.
That might not sound like much, but it took two Essentials collections over 1100 pages to collect all of this material! And, I think that was just the Hulk material – although I’m not entirely sure.
But, wait – I can complicate things even more! The US stories from Rampaging Hulk & Hulk! magazine were reprinted in the UK from 1978 in a magazine called Rampage Monthly starring the Hulk which did not contain original material, but Hulk also had an ongoing series called Hulk Comic (1979) that did contain original material. That comic also featured other original stories from Black Knight (collected in the Captain Britain omnibus), Nick Fury, Night Raven (collected in trade), and Ant-Man. The Hulk stories were reprinted in a 2013 paperback, Hulk From The Marvel UK Vaults, which was 360 pages.
Since none of this material is eligible for Masterworks volumes and hasn’t appeared in the Epic line, this might be our one chance to collect it in hardcover!
So… what are you voting for? Since this is not wildly popular material, you’re voting for either or both of those options – Marvel can sort it out once this hits the Top 60 and they consider printing the book!
A vote for this book could be a vote for intact, full magazine issues (in the style of the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu omnibus), which would stretch for multiple volumes or just a vote for the Hulk content – which would fit into one book. If you vote for the latter, you could also imagine this would include the UK material – which would just fit into one hulking omnibus of over 1400 pages.
This would collect material from Rampaging Hulk [Magazine] (1976) #1-9, The Hulk! [Magazine] (1978) #10-27, and Incredible Hulk (1968) #269. That might be exclusively Hulk material (about 1100 pages) or full magazines (which would take multiple omnibus volumes to cover).
Optionally, you might also believe this should include 360 pages of UK comics material from Smash! (1966) #38, Marvel Storybook Annual 1968, Hulk Comic (1979) #1-6, 9-20, 26-28, Incredible Hulk Annual [UK]: Authorised Edition 1980, Hulk Annual [UK] 1981-1985, and The Super Heroes Annual 1991.
Hulk: Incredible Hulk by Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema Vol. 1 (1979 & on) [AKA Vol. 6, MMW 16 & on]
We don’t usually collect past two additional volumes in a comic run for this poll, because after two speculated volumes mapping accurately from existing books can get somewhat squirrelly.
However, in this case we have a very obvious, very desirable book to map!
Bill Mantlo had a lengthy and very well-regarded run on Hulk from Incredible Hulk (1968) #245-313 & Annual 10-13. For many comic fans – both classic and current – this is the first essential run of Hulk comic books.
Marvel released this run in a series of trade paperbacks referred to as “proto Epics Collections” by fans, because they had the size, scope, and titling conventions of Epics released less than a year before Epic Collection was formally launched. For that reason, the Epic line has been slow to return to this material, just beginning to tackle it starting in 2022 and still missing two volumes.
Clearly at 60+ issues Mantlo’s run is too large for just one omnibus. It looks like it might wind up as exactly six Masterworks volumes, which would equal two omnibuses. Since, it is clearly defined and lines up with an existing break in Masterworks volumes, Marvel could easily jump ahead to this point just as they did with Daredevil by Nocenti & Romita Jr. Vol. 1.
A vote for this book is a vote for Bill Mantlo’s Hulk material to jump in line for omnibus treatment, getting started on it now without waiting for two more classic Incredible Hulk omnibus volumes to connect to it.
This would begin to collect Incredible Hulk (1968) #245-313 & Annual 10-13, Marvel Treasury Edition (1974) #25, Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions (1982) #1-3, The Incredible Hulk vs. Quasimodo (1983) #1, Alpha Flight (1983) #29, and material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) #7.
It would need to omit issue #296, which co-stars ROM – it is collected in his omnibus line.
After Bill Mantlo’s run concludes, we’d need to cover just 500 more pages of comics to reach the beginning of the Peter David omnibus line. Since that would require us to map five volumes into the future to a book that has not yet been covered by Masterworks, and because it is a brief amount of material that equals just one Epic Collection, it is outside of the scope of our poll options. It’s possible that the Mantlo volumes would break later and stretch farther to collect that material.
Then, we have Incredible Hulk by Peter David Vol. 1 – Vol. 4, collecting from Incredible Hulk (1968) #331-467 (along with all of the contemporaneous Annuals et al), followed by Incredible Hulk by Byrne & Casey to complete Incredible Hulk (1968) and collect the first year of Hulk (1999). See Guide to Hulk – Bruce Banner for details!
Hulk Omnibus Mapping: Modern Hulk
We don’t just have “gaps” in our collection of modern Hulk – it’s pretty much a giant hole from 1999 to the beginning of Immortal Hulk (2018), with just one little island of material collected in the middle!
Incredible Hulk by Byrne & Casey collects the first year of Hulk (1999) before the title changes to Incredible Hulk (1999). See Guide to Hulk – Bruce Banner for details. Then, we have the existing Hulk: The Dogs of War… which requires some explanation, below.
Hulk by Paul Jenkins (2000 – 2001) [AKA Dogs of War omnibus]
For some reason, our Hulk poll options are full of us making odd choices and breaking rules… because this is already an omnibus!
Except… it’s not. Hulk: The Dogs of War is a MASSIVE 800+ page oversize hardcover, a size we almost never see for non-Omnibus hardcovers outside of the X-Men line. Also, its contents are perfect – it collects all of the Paul Jenkins Hulk material we could possibly ask for in a single book.
We don’t typically put any “straight reprint” conversions from oversize hardcover (AKA OHC) to omnibus on the poll, because then it very quickly turns from a Most-Wanted poll to a “this book seems big enough to reprint as an omnibus” poll. However, in this case – which might be unique across the entire poll – it makes perfect sense.
A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to reprint Hulk: The Dogs of War as an omnibus.
This would collect Incredible Hulk (2000) #1/2, 12-33, & Annual 2000-2001; Sentry/Hulk (2001) #1; Hulk Smash (2001) #1-2; and Startling Stories: Banner (2001) #1-4.
Hulk by Bruce Jones (2001 – 2004) [fits between Jenkins & PAD Vol. 5]
This is an existing obvious gap in Hulk oversize coverage – fitting perfectly between Dogs of War and the back portion of Incredible Hulk by Byrne & Casey.
Much like the Jenkins omnibus, Jones wrote a specific run with some obvious side material, which makes for an easily-defined map! The only potential addition is Hulk: Nightmerica (2003) by Robin Laws & Brian Ashmore, which was released in this period and would otherwise be abandoned in omnibus.
A vote for this book is a vote for a complete collection of Bruce Jones’s Hulk material in omnibus for the first time, which would give us hat means this would give us an unbroken oversize hardcover run on Hulk from Incredible Hulk (1968) #331 in 1987 through 2008!
This would collect Incredible Hulk (2000) #34-76, Hulk/Wolverine: 6 Hours (2003) #1-4, and Hulk & Thing: Hard Knocks (2004) #1-4. It could also add Hulk: Nightmerica (2003) #1-6.
After Bruce Jones’s run we have our island of existing omnibuses Hulk: Planet Hulk, Hulk: World War Hulk, and Hulk by Loeb and McGuinness. See Guide to Hulk – Bruce Banner for more details
Hulk: Incredible Hulks by Greg Pak (2008 – 2011) [follows World War Hulk; includes Fall of the Hulks and World War Hulks]
Let’s start out by clarifying something: two thirds of the remainder of Greg Pak’s fan-favorite run on Hulk has already been collected in oversize hardcovers – in Hulk: Planet Hulk and Hulk: World War Hulk.
After the material in Planet Hulk and World War Hulk, the Incredible Hulk title transitions to being a Hercules book with issue #112. Pak then wrote Skaar: Son of Hulk (2008) #1-12 while Jeph Loeb penned Hulk (2008), but Pak returned to ongoing Hulk comics with The Incredible Hulk (1968) #601 in October 2009.
This book focuses on collecting the three portions of Pak’s remaining run. “Fall of the Hulks” (512 pages) ,”World War Hulks” (448 pages), and issues #612-635 (576 pages – none of which has been collected in oversize hardcover).
Marvel could absolutely collect that all into a single 1400+ page book – it wouldn’t even be their biggest Hulk omnibus, thanks to Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing. However, some of the page counts of the first two sections are misleading – much of that is non-pack event mini-series. Of course, we’d love to see them all in this book – and, they would fit. However, they’re not all critical to understanding Pak’s run. Instead, this could optionally include Skaar: Son of Hulk (2008) – which really does continue directly from and to this run. If you have that in mind with your vote, you’re not wrong.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect the remainder of Greg Pak’s Hulk material into a single omnibus, along with its many supporting tie-ins.
This would collect The Incredible Hulk (1968) #600-635, plus some or all of main tie-ins including Dark Reign: M.O.D.O.K. (2009) #1-4, Dark Reign: The List – Hulk (2009) #1, Fall of the Hulks: Alpha (2010) #1, Fall of The Hulks: M.O.D.O.K. (2010) #1, Fall of the Hulks: Red Hulk (2010) #1-4, Hulked-Out Heroes (2010) #1-2, Savage She-Hulks (2010) #1-3, World War Hulks (2010) #1, World War Hulks: Spider-Man vs. Thor (2010) #1-2, World War Hulks: Wolverine vs. Captain America (2010) #1-2.
It could optionally include Skaar: Son of Hulk (2008) #1-12.
Hulk by Aaron, Waid & Duggan (2011 – 2015)
Why are there three massive authors listed on this one volume along with an unspecific year range?
To understand, we have to take a look at Bruce Banner’s publishing history after the conclusion of Greg Pak and Jeph Loeb’s runs on he character.
First, Jason Aaron took over the character with Incredible Hulk (2011). By that point, Aaron was already a big name – he had been writing Wolverine for a couple of years, among other titles. However, the comic market seemed slightly exhausted by Hulk after the lengthy Planet & War sagas plus the proliferation of multiple Hulks. Also, this run had an expiration date with the quickly approaching game of writer musical chairs of Marvel Now, where Aaron would take over Thor.
Could Aaron have kept writing Hulk into Now if it was a hit? It worked for Waid on Daredevil and DeConnick on Captain Marvel, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Meanwhile, during this run Victor Gischler continued his death grip on all things vampires with Fear Itself tie-in Hulk vs. Dracula (2011).
Hulk began Marvel Now with a curious status quo written by Mark Waid – he was drafted into being an agent of SHIELD. I always enjoyed this run, but fans never really latched onto it. There were a number of mini-series alongside it in 2013 and 2014, and then in 2014 Waid relaunched the title before it was later taken over by Gerry Duggan.
When we return from Secret Wars (2015), Banner is done with being Hulk and the title – and Gamma Powers – are taken on by Amadeus Cho. That’s covered below. The next Hulk run is Immortal Hulk (2018), which is already in omnibus.
Aaron’s run just isn’t omnibus-sized on its own, even with the addition of the mini-series. And, the Waid/Duggan run is a perfect omnibus size, but could abandon all of that supporting work. But, altogether, it’s 70+ issues – too big for one book!
Since there’s no clear omnibus to map here, we’re treating it as a new “Modern Years” line of Hulk that could take one or more volumes to complete.
A vote for this book is a vote to any solution to collecting Hulk from 2011 to 2015 in whatever way is the most logical. It could simply collect all of this material sequentially, or could be an Aaron book, a Waid/Duggan book, and a Companion book.
This would begin to collect Incredible Hulk (2011) #1-15 & 7.1 by Jason Aaron, Hulk vs. Dracula (2011) #1-3, Indestructible Hulk (2013) #1-20 & Annual 1 by Mark Waid (and Special #1 – part of Arms of the Octopus one-shots), Marvel Knights: Hulk (2013) #1-4 by Joe Keatinge, Original Sin: Hulk vs. Iron Man (2014) #1-4 by Mark Waid, Savage Hulk (2014) #1-6 anthology series, and Hulk (2014) #1-16 by Waid & Gerry Duggan.
The next Bruce Banner material after this book is collected in The Immortal Hulk omnibus, followed by Hulk by Cates & Ottley. The current Phillip K. Johnson Incredible Hulk (2023) run is still ongoing, so it’s too soon to speculate how it could be collected in omnibus. See Guide to Hulk – Bruce Banner for more information.
Hulk Omnibus Mapping: She-Hulk
She-Hulk’s comics are so well-collected that we only need two omnibuses to have a complete run of her comics in oversize hardcover! Or… is it three omnibuses? Hmm… let’s take a look.
She-Hulk’s debut series is collected in The Savage She-Hulk Omnibus, which is followed by The Sensational She-Hulk by John Byrne – see Guide to She-Hulk.
She-Hulk: Sensational She-Hulk Vol. 1 (1985 – 1991) [recollects Sensational based on Epic mapping]
Are you doing a double-take? Didn’t I just say that The Sensational She-Hulk by John Byrne has already been collected?
The problem with that omnibus is that Byrne popped on and off Sensational She-Hulk (1989) three times to write less than half its issues.
That’s fine for a Byrne-focused collection, but it makes trying to map around it with a Companion omnibus a fool’s errand. Not only would we have to collect disparate non-Byrne material with several gaps, but some of the supporting material won’t make any sense – since it would fit between issues of the Byrne run that wouldn’t be collected.
This is a rare instance of me putting my thumb on the scales of the voting options and labeling that Byrne book as a “creator-centric” anthology omnibus, which we will map around it for the purposes of this poll.
Instead, we’re proposing two volumes that would follow the Epic Collection maps to completely collect She-Hulks material from the end of her original The Savage She-Hulk (1980), which ends in 1982, through the beginning of She-Hulk by Dan Slott, which starts in 2004.
A vote for this book is a vote to use Epic Collection mapping to collect the She-Hulk material leading to her 1989 ongoing series, and then about half of that series – including just 10 issues overlapping the Byrne omnibus.
This would collect Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) #18 – The Sensational She-Hulk OGN, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #107, Dazzler (1981) #14, Solo Avengers (1987) #14 (B-story), Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #18 (Byrne prologue), Sensational She-Hulk (1989) #1-25, The Sensational She-Hulk in Ceremony (1989) #1-2, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #48 (1st story), and Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #5 (5th story).
She-Hulk: Sensational She-Hulk Vol. 2 (1991 – 2002) [recollects Sensational based on Epic mapping]
This second volume of Sensational She-Hulk would collect the remainder of her 1989 series, plus subsequent appearances to have this meet up with She-Hulk by Dan Slott on the other side.
A vote for this book is a vote to use Epic Collection mapping to collect the back half of her 1989 series and subsequent appearances through 2002 – including 19 issues overlapping the Byrne omnibus.
This would collect Sensational She-Hulk (1989) #26-60, material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #123-126, Incredible Hulk (1968) #412 & Annual 16 (4th story), Doc Sampson (1996) #1-4, Incredible Hulk (1968) #441-442, Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night (2002) #1, and material from Marvel Double-Shot (2003) #2.
After we reach 2003, we then have all of She-Hulk’s solo material from 2004-2010 collected in She-Hulk by Dan Slott Omnibus and She-Hulk by Peter David Omnibus – see Guide to She-Hulk.
She-Hulk by Soule & Tamaki (2014 – 2020) [includes A-Force]
She-Hulk wasn’t especially present in Marvel Now from 2012-2014, anchoring just the twelve issues of Charles Soule’s She-Hulk (2014), and appearing in the ensemble cast of Al Ewing’s Mighty Avengers.
That material isn’t quite long enough for an omnibus.
Then, she returned from Secret Wars (2015) as one of the members of A-Force (2016), the weirdly named all-female team of Avenging women. Since A-Force hasn’t been collected elsewhere and both Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel’s books have moved past it, it could make the most sense to include it here – especially because it explains the change of She-Hulk’s status quo in Civil War II.
Then, we reach Mariko Tamaki’s run on Hulk (2016) and She-Hulk (2017) – again, too short for its own omnibus at just 230 pages.
It’s almost as if we could get all three of these roughly 12-issue runs together into a single omnibus…
A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect She-Hulk’s solo and team material from Marvel Now through the start of Rainbow Rowell’s run in 2022.
This would collect She-Hulk (2014) #1-12 by Charles Soule (along with Wolverines (2015) #13 and material from Gwenpool Special (2016) #1); Avengers (2015) #0 (A-Force story); A-Force (2016) #1-10; Civil War II (2016) #0 and material Civil War II Free Comic Book Day 2016 #1; Hulk (2017) #1-11 & She-Hulk (2018) #159-163 by Mariko Tamki; Avengers (2018) #46-49; She-Hulk Annual (2019) #1; Immortal She-Hulk (2020) #1.
She-Hulk by Rainbow Rowell – a just-concluded run I absolutely adore and cherish – has been announced for release later this year – see Guide to She-Hulk.
Hulk Omnibus Mapping: Skaar, Red Hulk & Red She-Hulk, Brawn, & Weapon H
Hulk has spun off a number of supporting gamma-irradiated characters over the past 20 years, four of whom have accumulated enough material for their own omnibuses!
Hulk: Skaar, Son of Hulk (2007 – 2012) [AKA Sons of Hulk]
A vote for this volume is a vote to comprehensively collect all of Skaar’s journey from his solo adventures through him joining Dark Avengers in 2012, as well as material from his brother Hiro-Kala.
This would collect material from World War Hulk (2007) #5, Skaar: Son of Hulk (2008) #1-12, Skaar: Son of Hulk Presents: Savage World of Sakaar (2008) #1, Hulk Family: Green Genes (2009) #1, Planet Skaar: Prologue (2009) #1, War of Kings: Savage World of Skaar (2009) #1, Son of Hulk (2009) #13-17 (featuring Hiro-Kala), Realm of Kings: Son of Hulk (2010) #1-4 (featuring Hiro-Kala), Wolverine: Origins (2006) #41-45, Fall of the Hulks: Gamma (2010) #1, Incredible Hulks (2010) #612-617, and Skaar: King of the Savage Land (2011) #1-5.
It also might include some other contemporaneous material from The Incredible Hulk (1968) #601-611, Dark Reign: The List – Hulk (2009) #1, Hercules: Fall of an Avenger (2010) #1-2, She-Hulk Sensational (2010) #1, Origins of Marvel Comics (2010) #1, and Incredible Hulks #618-625.
Hulk: Red Hulk & Red She-Hulk by Jeff Parker (2010 – 2013)
Jeff Parker took over writing Hulk (2008) with issue #25 and shifted it to focus exclusively on Red Hulk. He continued writing the title into Marvel Now, with the focus shifting to Red She-Hulk. See Guide to Red Hulk and Guide to Red She-Hulk for more information.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Jeff Parkers Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk run into a single omnibus, which will be the first time much of it is collected into oversize hardcover.
This would collect Hulk (2008) #25-57 & 31.1, “Venom: Circle of Four” from Venom (2011) #13.1 – 13.4, and Red-She Hulk (2013) #58-67.
Hulk: Amadeus Cho, The Totally Awesome Hulk by Greg Pak (2016 – 2018)
In All-New All-Different Marvel, Greg Pak returned to Hulk and to one of his favorite creations, Amadeus Cho, by merging the two into a single new Hulk character!
A vote for this volume is a vote just for that Cho-Hulk material (later renamed to “Brawn”), and not any earlier Cho material which would be collected entirely along with Pak’s work on Hercules.
Pak also continued writing Cho into the New Agents of Atlas. Could this push on to include that material? A vote for this book is a vote for that possibility! But, primarily, it’s a vote for the material listed below.
This book would collect Totally Awesome Hulk (2016) #1-22 & 1.MU, Weapon X (2017) #5-6, Weapons of Mutant Destruction (2016) Alpha, and Incredible Hulk (1968 / 2017) #709-717.
X-Men: ResurrXion – Weapon X & Weapon H by Greg Pak (2017 – 2019) [includes Hulkverines]
A vote for this book is a vote to collect Greg Pak’s entire run on the X-Force-esque Weapon X (2017) and its spinoff focusing on a Hulk/Wolverine hybrid in Weapon H.
This would collect Weapon X (2017) #1-27, Weapons of Mutant Destruction (2017) Alpha #1, Totally Awesome Hulk (2016) #19-22, and material from from X-Men Prime (2017). It would continue to Weapon H (2018) #1-12 and Hulkverines (2019) #1-3.
It could add Domino (2018) #1-10 & Annual 1 and Domino: Hotshots (2019) #1-5, but I recommend that would fit better with X-Force (2018).
Saw that the Spider-Man Manga was in the Spider-Man Tigereyes post and wanted to point out that there was also a Hulk manga series and a Moon Knight manga series that were never translated/printed for the United States or collected as far as I can tell! Ever since finding Batmanga, I’ve become obsessed with these interpretations of western characters and stumbled across both of those which seem to be relatively rare. Could definitely see them maybe putting those two together, and with the recent collection of the X-Men Manga I’m hoping somebody at Marvel is on the case!
Ooo, can you point me towards any further publishing information on the Hulk and Moon Knight Manga? It’s too late to add them to this year’s poll, but we can certainly add them for next year if together they’re more than 400 pages.
I’m trying to do some more internet sleuthing on them, there are articles online about their existence but specifics are harder to find and really seem to only come from fans who have either scanned some of the pages onto the internet or shared info in forums when they tracked down physical copies. It’s wading into lost media territory. Ok so here’s some info:
The Hulk manga was published as Haruku: Monsutaa Komiku in issues of Weekly Bokura Magazine in 1970-1971. Supposedly it had 23 chapters and it was partly written by the writer of Lone Wolf and Cub Kazuo Koike. Not sure on the specific issue #s, League of Comics Geeks has some covers but not sure if the issues that are missing also include Hulk. At one point the whole manga was scanned online and shared with someone who wrote a blog post about it on 4thletter (link below). Unfortunately, even with the Wayback Machine these seem to be lost and only the image borders from the upload appear. If we assume that wide borders are 2 pages and skinny borders are 1 page, there are in theory 433 pages in this lost scan of the Hulk (the 4thletter blog post thankfully has some example pages to see what these images looked like). BUT this is purely a guess and who knows if the original formatting would be kept!
Link to wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk:_The_Manga
Link to League of Comics Geeks: https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/166320/weekly-bokura-magazine
Link to 4thletter blog post: https://4thletter.net/2009/05/lone-wolf-and-cub-interlude-haruku-the-manga/
Link to the Wayback on the lost images: https://web.archive.org/web/20090531153107/http://www11.atpages.jp/~unknown2009/HULK/picture.html
The Moon Knight manga has even less info about it. Fans have posted pictures of some pages and have shared that it ran as back-ups in Televi-Kun Monthly 1-12 (1979-1980), the material is only in the ball park of 50 pages. Unlike Hulk which was much more a direct correlation to the character, they took more liberties with this adaptation as Moon Knight is a high school ninja student that seeks revenge who gains immortality in the moonlight. Apparently, this material was the last of a deal made to publish Japanese versions of Marvel characters so it was dropped as back-ups while the publisher moved on to create similar looking characters without the Marvel license. Had the deal continued, it would have also resulted in a Silver Surfer manga. While different, it definitely still looks like Moon Knight though!
Link to CBR article: https://www.cbr.com/moon-knight-manga-japan-1970s/
Reddit post #1: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoonKnight/comments/118n52l/the_moon_knight_manga_is_real/
Reddit post #2: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoonKnight/comments/979i5x/moon_knight_manga_from_1979_by_gosaku_ota/
I’m sorry for the wall of text Peter!!! I swear I tried to format it here >_<