The Hulk has fought gods and giant monsters and now he was a thug in Vegas? He’d laid cities to waste and now he was a glorified bouncer? If you’d followed David’s gray Hulk adventures this far, you were used to some serious moral flexibility. The very idea of it rubbed me the wrong way. I didn’t hate Hulk’s time in Vegas, but I didn’t like it much either. Still, I think my tastes veer sharply from those of a lot of my fellow Hulk fans. I collected these issues as they were released in fact one of the two letters I’ve had printed in Incredible Hulk was one complaining about the first Hulk issue collected in this volume.
The Vegas stories were popular and remain etched in readers’ memories, evidenced by the fact that – following Paul Jenkins’s example – most readers refer to the gray Hulk simply as “Fixit” these days. In this third volume we find out exactly how the Hulk survived the gamma blast, how he put the cork in Banner, and witness the fallout when Banner eventually resurfaces. He also seemed to have figured out a way to stop himself from turning back into Bruce Banner.
While the world believed him dead, the Hulk surfaced in Incredible Hulk #347 in Las Vegas, apparently working as a leg-breaker/bodyguard for casino owner Michael Berengetti. Incredible Hulk #345, collected in the preceding Hulk Visionaries: Peter David volume, ended with the gray Hulk caught at ground zero of a gamma bomb blast courtesy of the Leader.
The third Hulk Visionaries: Peter David volume is the first to focus solely on the Las Vegas period when the gray Hulk first became known as Joe Fixit.
Peter David continues his legendary run! The situation in Trans-Sabal may lead to nuclear disaster, and the Hulk, the Pantheon and X-Factor are at war among themselves to stop it! And in Vegas, the Hulk takes on the Punisher! Rick Jones tracks down his mother for the first time, and things don't go well! And the Hulk gets revenge on the Russian spy who caused the Gamma explosion way back in HULK #1! Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #390-396 and material from ANNUAL #18, and X-FACTOR (1986) #76.By Peter David, Jeff Purves, Steve Englehart, Alex Saviuk, and Keith PollardĬollects Incredible Hulk #s 349-354, Web of Spider-Man #44, and Fantastic Four #320
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