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Hulk Smash Avengers #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 (of 5)

Recommended!

I did an Audio Review of Issue #1 and Issue #2 a while back (May 15, 2012) and decided this five-part mini-series was worth picking up. It was a set of 5 $2.99 comics, which is a nice change from the $4 price tag we are stuck with most of the time. I looks like it will be “traded” and available for around $15. This is good news for those of you waiting for a collection of these very interesting “side stories”.

The concept for this mini-series was very interesting to me - a mini-series which walks the reader through the relationship between Hulk and the Avengers throughout the years of their co-existence. What is made clear (and what many of us already knew) - there is one main consistency between Hulk and the Avengers - that is there is very little consistency. These five books explore the Hulk in his various incarnations - from dull to smart, from Mr. Fixit to Banner and even some Red Hulk for good measure. The same goes for the Avengers - as the years flew by, so did their roster - we see many different Avengers teams throughout this series.

The most intersting part of the mini-series is that while it occurs within continuity, it depicts stories that were essentially “off-panel”. At the beginning of each story we receive a little clue as to where each issue took place within continuity.

Here is a guide for each issue (in case you were interested):

• Issue #1: Between Avengers [Vol. 1] #7 & #14
• Issue #2: Immediately Prior to Avengers [Vol. 1] #181
• Issue #3: Between the Events of Avengers [Vol. 1] #227 & #228…and Incredible Hulk [Vol. 1] #280 & #281
• Issue #4: Immediately Prior to West Coast Avengers #5 & Incredible Hulk [Vol. 1] #347
• Issue #5: After the Events of Civil War and World War Hulk

(Source: thanosrules.com)