| Writer: |
Al Ewing |
| Artist: Pencils |
Joe Bennet |
| Artist: Ink |
Ruy Jose |
| Cover Price:
Secondary Market: |
$3.99
$3.99 – $120.00 |
| Variants: 2 |
- Asgardian Variant Cover
- 1:25 Wraparound Variant
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| Publisher: |
Marvel Comics |
Something odd has happened with Immortal Hulk #16. While I am extremely glad that the Hulk is one of the hottest books on the planet I am also frustrated with how the book has suddenly taken on a life of its own on the secondary market. People are paying wild prices for back issues – and now that has bled into pre-sale prices. People driving up the prices of books yet to be released. If that sounds crazy to you that’s because it is! I have said it in the past and I will say it now – collectors can be their own worst enemies! Case in point is the 1:25 wraparound variant for this issue. What should have been a $12-$25 book suddenly shot up to $120 on eBay, so of course the shops followed suit and charged a premium for them as well. I am lucky enough to have a shop charge me a little under half of the trending value. This is also significant since the value has dropped to about $70-$80 after the book was released.
Even crazier? There will be variants to the 2nd printings to this book! How insane is that? Variants to a 2nd printing is completely unheard of! This is the biggest cash-grab I have seen in all my years of collecting. This is collectors ruining the market for fellow collectors. This is almost as crazy as people paying hundreds of dollars for a movie ticket to Endgame! Can we all just get a grip here?
So, currently, from what I can count there will be the following variants released for this issue:
- 2nd Print
- Cover B 2nd Print
- 8-Bit Hulk #1 variant
- Ryan Brown variant
- Shattered Cover variant
- Hyuk Lee variant
So, you see, the world has gone done lost its mind! I haven’t even gotten into the review of the book! The issue was another solid read as the Hulk continues unwrapping the mystery of who this new Hulk incarnation exactly is. Samson and Hulk realized that people have taken Rick Jones body – and we see the horrific experiments the scientists do to the corpse.
I think we all know that we will be seeing Rick Jones again real soon – what will he look like though? I don’t think even I can answer that! The Hulk and Samson have a heart to heart while chasing down the assassin who shot Betty. The two frenemies enter an underground lab where some terrible experiments have been executed resulting in gamma animals! But don’t worry, this isn’t another Jason Aaron monkey poop moment that will be an embarrassment in Hulk history.
Meanwhile, another group of government spooks are trying to track where Betty Banner has gone. They fond something both brilliant and exciting – feathers! Huge crimson feathers – but feathers none the less! It will be interesting to see how the writer works in Betty’s transformation into the harpy -as she should have been in the Red Hulk title – and the inclusion of the Red She Hulk history that this series seems to have embraced in a positive way.
Samson and Banner track Burbank into a dark room where suddenly UV lights flood the entire place and transform Hulk back into Banner. Bruce runs to a dark corner but we leave the issue with the assassin seeking out Bruce but Bruce’s inner monologue letting the readers know that he isn’t who he seems!
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