Hulk #2 for Sale - First Appearance of A-Bomb - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Hulk (Marvel, 2008 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: April 2008
Key date: 2008-04-00
On-sale date: 2008-02-20
Indicia publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
Price: $2.99; 3.05 CAD
Pages: 36
Barcode: 75960605992800211
Rating: Rated A

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of A-Bomb - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: McGuinness; inks: Vines; colors: Keith	Iron Man, Red Hulk, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Tony Stark
1	The Smoking Gun	comic story	23	script: Jeph Loeb; pencils: Ed McGuinness; inks: Dexter Vines; colors: Jason Keith; letters: Comicraft	A-Bomb First, Maria Hill, Iron Man, Rick Jones, Clay Quartermain, Red Hulk, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, She-Hulk, Tony Stark, Jennifer Walters
2	Award-Winning Comic Book Writer Mark Millar	in-house column	1	script: Mark Millar	Mark Millar (photo)
3	Young X-Men #1	in-house column	2	script: Nick Lowe; pencils: Yanick Paquette; inks: Yanick Paquette
4	Next Issue!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Ed McGuinness; inks: Dexter Vines; colors: Jason Keith	A-Bomb First, Rick Jones, Red Hulk, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Second Printing	barcode 75960605992800241
Variant Edition	barcode 75960605992800221
Variant Edition - Black and White	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Newsstand	price 3.99 USD; 3.99 CAD; barcode 07447002456903

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Red Hulk ISBN 978-0-7851-2882-3	2009	On eBay ›
Red Hulk ISBN 978-0-7851-2881-6	2008	On eBay ›
Hulk by Loeb & McGuinness Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-91805-7	2019	On eBay ›
Hulk by Jeph Loeb: The Complete Collection #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-8539-0	2013	On eBay ›
Hulk: Fall of the Hulks Prelude #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-4315-4	2010	On eBay ›
Who Is the Red Hulk? ISBN 978-1-302-95647-9	2024	On eBay ›
Hulk: Green Hulk / Red Hulk #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-4025-2	2009	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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