Kirby and Lee, though, likely knew that their fans were clamoring with an outright battle between the Thing and the Hulk and so, for the 25th issue of the Fantastic Four, that's precisely what they delivered.įantastic Four #25 (by Kirby, Lee and inker George Roussos) was heavily interconnected with another Kirby/Lee title, The Avengers, where the Hulk had been a founding member but was now at odds with his former allies. The saboteur, of course, turned out to be the guy who knocked the Hulk out and so the Fantastic Four took down the bad guy and went back home without any further tussles with the Hulk. That will be a recurring theme in the history of Thing and Hulk fights, someone breaking it up right before you would see who was going to win the fight. However, right when the Thing is about to serve up his strongest punch on the Hulk, the Hulk is knocked out by an unseen villain. All of them, that is, except for the Thing. When the FF finally catch up with the Hulk, he relatively easily dispatches them. The set-up for the issue (by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Dick Ayers) is that the Fantastic Four is called in to help investigate a saboteur that the military assumes is the Hulk. Hulk fight was significant not just because it was the first battle between Marvel's two "strong man" characters, but because it was actually the first crossover in the history of the Marvel Universe period! Amazingly, it was actually a tie between the Hulk's guest appearance in Fantastic Four #12 and the Fantastic Four's guest appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #1 (both books came out the same week in late 1962), but it still counts! RELATED: Marvel Finally Declares Who's Stronger: The Hulk or the Thing Here, though, we will mostly spotlight the Hulk and Thing battles that actually resulted in a clear winner one way or the other (as well as some other significant moments between the two heroes). For the most part, however, the fights are barely worth the term "fight," as they are almost always just teases that nowhere as the two heroes ultimately either part ways or team up against a mutual enemy.
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