The Incredible Hulk Annual #13

This 1984 oversized annual packs 48 pages of story and delivers a cover by Chris Warner that immediately earns its price of admission — the Hulk crouches in a snowy landscape, gritting his teeth against not one but two enormous, nightmarish alien creatures looming over him with gaping, fang-filled maws. The sheer scale of those monsters against the jade giant makes for a genuinely unsettling image, and the story inside, "Friends," promises that the tension goes deeper than brute force alone. With Bill Mantlo and Carl Potts collaborating on the writing and Alan Kupperberg illustrating the interior pages, this annual is a fine snapshot of Marvel's Hulk at full throttle in the mid-eighties.