The Incredible Hulk #166 (1973) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	It! The Thing from the Dynamo!	cover	1	pencils: Herb Trimpe; inks: Herb Trimpe; letters: John Costanza	Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Zzzax
2	The Destroyer from the Dynamo!	comic story	19	script: Steve Englehart; pencils: Herb Trimpe; inks: Sal Trapani; colors: Dave Hunt; letters: C. Jetter, Gaspar Saladino	Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Thunderbolt Ross; Glenn Talbot; Colonel John Armbruster; Zzzax (first appearance, villain)
9	Dracula Lives	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Neal Adams; inks: Neal Adams	Dracula
14	More Miniaturized Mouthfuls of Marvel-ous Mutterings! (Or: Not Only is Dracula Alive and Well — But He’s Got Company!)	in-house column	0.5	script: ? (promo copy); colors: ? (panel background only); letters: typeset
15	FOOM! Friends Of Ol' Marvel	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	script: ? (promo copy); letters: typeset
16	-	letters page	0.5	script: Steve Englehart
17	He Lives! He Strikes! No Grave Can Hold Him!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: John Romita; inks: John Romita; letters: Dave Hunt

Plus 13 pages of advertisements and other matter across 14 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.06 GBP

Collection	Year
Essential Hulk #4 ISBN 0-7851-2193-5	2006	On eBay ›
Crisis on Counter-Earth ISBN 978-1-302-92916-9	2021	On eBay ›
The Incredible Hulk Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-1-302-96259-3	2025	On eBay ›

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