The Incredible Hulk (comic book) the Savage Hulk. David disagreed, leading to his parting ways with Marvel. His last issue of "The Incredible Hulk" was #467 (Aug. 1998), his 137th. Also in 1998, Marvel relaunched "The Rampaging Hulk" as a standard comic book rather than as a comics magazine. Following David's departure, Joe Casey took over as writer until this series ended with "The Incredible Hulk" vol. 2, #474 (March 1999). The first volume of the shorter-titled "Hulk" began immediately the following month, scripted by Byrne and penciled by Ron Garney. Erik Larsen and Jerry Ordway briefly took over scripting and with issue #12 (March
Fantastic Four (comic book) Reed and Sue to join that team after Engelhart had written them out of "Fantastic Four". Yet by "The Avengers" #300, where they were scheduled to join the team, Simonson was told the characters were returning to "Fantastic Four". This led to Simonson quitting "The Avengers" after that issue. Shortly afterward, he was offered the job of writing "Fantastic Four". Having already prepared a number of stories involving the Avengers with Reed and Sue in the lineup, he then rewrote these for "Fantastic Four". Simonson later recalled that working on "Fantastic Four" allowed him the latitude to use original Avengers