I still don't get it.
Was Loeb's run a relaunch? Or was it a second book that ran concurrently with the original?
Heh. This gets retardedly confusing.
So... Volume one of
The Incredible Hulk was just six issues long and won't ever be revisited because it's such a small number. After that, Hulk spent about fifty issues as the lead of
Tales to Astonish which then became
The Incredible Hulk (volume 2) and lasted for almost five hundred issues until 1999.
Then they cancelled that in 1999 and released a new number one under the name
Hulk (volume one), which then took the numbering and title for
The Incredible Hulk (volume 2) after issue eleven. Then, in 2008, they cancelled
The Incredible Hulk (volume two, I guess?) and launched
The Incredible Hercules, which took the numbering for
Hulk (volume one). They also relaunched a
new Hulk (volume 2), which Loeb was writing. Then, just a few months ago, they starting publishing
The Incredible Hulk (volume 2) again, using the numbering of basically every Hulk book that's ever been published. So, to summarize, the books that are currently being published using Hulk numbering are...
Hulk (volume 2), which is still numbered in double digits, consisting only of the numbering since Loeb started the book.
The Incredible Hercules (volume 1), which consists of the numbering for
Hulk, volume one plus
The Incredible Hulk, volume three, which were the same book. As a result, it's a hundred some issues in. Not terribly complicated but still ****ing confusing.
The Incredible Hulk (volume 2), which continued the numbering from
Tales to Astonish and continued publication for decades. It was relaunched with a number 600 by cumulatively adding the issues it had when it went on hiatus with the numbering from
Hulk (volume 1) and
The Incredible Hulk (volume 3) (which again, shared numbering with each other and which are presently being published with that very numbering as Incredible Hercules), PLUS fourteen or so issues of Loeb's [/i]Hulk[/i] (volume 2) which is similarly continuing its numbering without the slightest worry.
:roll: Someone should make a venn diagram. I at least think that's how it worked. It's possible that
The Incredible Hulk started numbering again in the late 500's when Loeb's book launched?