The Incredible Hulk #368

Name: The Incredible Hulk #368
Brand: Marvel
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Apr 1990 · Marvel · 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.60 GBP

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“Natural Selection”

★ 1st appearance — Prometheus

About this Issue

The Incredible Hulk #368 carries double significance: it marks the debut cameo of the Pantheon and their member Prometheus, the secretive team of Asgardian-descended superhumans who would anchor Peter David's run for the next five years, and it stages the first-ever in-continuity encounter between the Hulk and Mr. Hyde — two characters whose shared literary DNA (both are riffs on Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) had made the meeting long overdue. Beyond its firsts, the issue stands as one of the most formally unusual single issues of David's decade-long tenure: a claustrophobic, philosophically charged thriller set largely in the shadows of a moving freight car, a tonal departure that critics and readers have consistently singled out as among the best standalone chapters of that celebrated run. Sam Kieth's expressionist pencils gave the confrontation a surreal, almost horror-adjacent atmosphere that made the book feel closer to a Vertigo title of the era than a standard Marvel superhero comic.

In "Natural Selection," the Hulk and his alter ego, Hyde, find themselves on a surreal journey aboard a moving freight train, fleeing the chaos of Las Vegas and the pursuit of Doc Samson. With art by Sam Kieth and inks by Kelley Jones, the issue unfolds in a dreamlike sequence that blurs the line between mind and machine, reality and nightmare.

writer Peter David · artist, inker Sam Kieth · inker Kelley Jones · colorist Glynis Oliver · letterer Joe Rosen · cover Sam Kieth

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History

Editor Bobbie Chase recruited Sam Kieth for this fill-in assignment after his Dark Horse Aliens work caught her attention; she later recalled that Kieth's preliminary Hulk sketches were immediately distinctive and energetic in a way no regular Marvel penciler could replicate. Kieth entered the job fresh from penciling the opening arc of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, giving him an unconventional visual grammar ideally suited to Peter David's script, which leaned heavily on dialogue and psychological dread rather than action set-pieces. Kelley Jones provided additional inks alongside Kieth's own, with Glynis Oliver on colors and Joe Rosen lettering, all under editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco; the issue shipped in February 1990 with an April 1990 cover date. Kieth's one-issue stint impressed Marvel's editorial staff enough that he was subsequently given a recurring cover assignment on Marvel Comics Presents.

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First appearance of the Pantheon (the entire organization) and of the Pantheon member Prometheus, both in cameo; the group would not receive a full spotlight until Incredible Hulk #379 (March 1991).
First appearance of The Mount, the Pantheon's secret Nevada desert headquarters, established in this issue in cameo alongside Prometheus.
First in-continuity encounter between the Hulk and Mr. Hyde (Calvin Zabo); the two do not meet again until Incredible Hulk #458.
Written by Peter David; penciled and cover-drawn by Sam Kieth, with inks by Kelley Jones and Sam Kieth, colors by Glynis Oliver, and letters by Joe Rosen.
Sam Kieth came to this issue directly after penciling the first five issues of Neil Gaiman's Sandman; this Hulk assignment was part of his early Marvel work before he created The Maxx for Image Comics in 1993.
The story's title is 'Natural Selection,' and its central conceit — a war of philosophies between two Stevenson-derived dual-natured characters — is explicitly framed around Darwin's concept of survival of the fittest as argued by Mr. Hyde.
The issue has been reprinted at least six times, including in Hulk Visionaries: Peter David Vol. 5 (2008), the Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 1 (2019), and multiple international editions in German, Italian, French, and Spanish.
A note in collector databases flags that this issue has a narrative tie to the 2019 one-shot Incredible Hulk: Last Call, suggesting retroactive story connections were added decades later.