*Marvel: The first, short-run series of Marvel’s Incredible Hulk, hard though it is to believe now, was a flop, lasting a scant six issues, and it took Bruce Banner’s emerald alter-ego some time to claw his way back to fame through intermittent guest-star status. Comparatively few of the Hulk’s first run survive, and by #6, the final, the print run was fairly low – which makes our acquisition of a copy all the more of a treat. Unlike the rest of the run, which were Kirby & Ayers illustrated, issue #6 was illustrated by Steve Ditko, and he gave both the Hulk and that issue’s nemesis, the Metal Master, a truly other-worldly, more supernatural feel, with a genuinely strange and disturbing ambience. This particular #6 is a VG cents copy, in rather beautiful condition, with vivid, unfaded colours, unmarred cover image, and only light spine and corner wear, on sale for £240. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD