Title: Hulk # 222 Pg. 22
Artist: Jim Starlin (Penciller) , Alfredo Alcala (Inker)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Interior Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 144
Likes on CAF: 18
Comments: 8
Added to Site: 3/2/2026
Location: Starlin, Jim
Artists:
Jim Starlin
(Penciller)
,
Alfredo Alcala
(Inker)
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Super!
In my opinion, this is the all-time best Incredible Hulk comic. I own the splash page from this book (which is one of the pages Starlin actually fully penciled and didn't just lay out), but the page you own is the one that scared me the most. Congrats on a getting a great page!
Thank you for the comment and congratulations on owning the epic splash to this issue! I'll be glad to trade you the page that scared you the most for the splash if you ever grow tired of it!! :)
I've owned it, probably 15 years or more, and paid $6,000 for it when I bought it (I can't remember the guy's name, but he was, briefly, an agent of Heritage and he collected rap posters and rap memorabilia), and everyone called me crazy for paying so much. I'd wanted a page from this issue since the day I started collecting original art and thought I'd never find one. I sold off a lot of rare golden age comics to be able to afford it and I think I asked for time payments of six months and I paid it off in less than a month. Starlin fully penciled the splash and Alcala inked it, but Starlin laid out the rest of the book and Alcala did almost full pencils and inks the rest of the issue. Some of the pages look like Starlin did more than just layouts on many pages, but you can see his panel layouts and style on every page. It truly is a masterpiece of a fill-in issue and I am shocked that some writer hasn't mined this issue to use Billy in a shocking return story.
Incredible Hulk 222 was the fourth Hulk book I got off the rack back when it came out. It was probably part of a 3-pack. Very creepy story that had a horror vibe to it. Reading it as a kid makes it a hard one to forget.
It was a great issue. The layout here is so characteristically Starlin - the symmetry, the small panels, the echoed themes. And it all works to such great effect on this page. Personally, I always love Alcala's inks, and they are really slick here. Great page!
I do remember reading this as a kid also and surprised at the storyline! Definitely creepy and a great page! Great to talk at OAX!!
Thank you for the comment and I look forward to seeing you at OAX in 2027!!!