Hulk Comic eventually made the jump to American comics. The title lasted 63 issues before merging with Marvel UK's Spider-Man weekly title. The following is a list of all the UK-originated strips in the title together with their respective issue numbers. Some of the original material has been collected into trade paperbacks: Hulk Comic Hulk Comic (later The Incredible Hulk Weekly) was a black-and-white Marvel UK comics anthology published under the editorship of Dez Skinn starting in 1979. After starring for many years in the Marvel UK flagship title, "The Mighty World of Marvel", the Hulk was given his own weekly book.
X-Men as X-Men. In 1963, with the success of Spider-Man in "Amazing Fantasy", as well as the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four, co-creator Stan Lee wanted to create another group of superheroes but did not want to have to explain how they got their powers. In 2004, Lee recalled, "I couldn't have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the cowardly way out. I said to myself, 'Why don't I just say they're mutants. They were born that way. In a 1987 interview, Kirby said, The X-Men, I did