Why Are There So Many 70's Hulk Issues Available?

[Wee67]

One of my favorite things to hit at comic convention are the $1 boxes. I search through for 70's gems that are in reading condition. I've been looking for 70's Iron Man ish's, but I also grab anything around the 25-40 cents range that catched my eye.

What I've noticed is that its pretty easy to scoop up around 15-25 issues of the Hulk. (Compared to 5 or 6 IM's). And I'm not just talking about the time when the Hulk was "Marvel's TV Sensation."

Is the Hulk just less popular to collect? Or is the opposite true and more issues were printed? Or did Hulk fans simply take less care of their issues back in the 70's leading them to the $1 boxes because of condition? I only collect Avengers books, so I don't know much about comic collecting. And no, I don't come across that many Avengers books either.

[B-Lister]

Because everybody now knows that 181 is valuable. So they dig out their old stack of books looking for a payday, and dump the leftovers.

[stevenlore]

What's special about 181, Wolverine first appearance?

[B-Lister]

Bingo.

most valuable Bronze Age comic there is.

Being a DC fan, my BA grails are Batman 232, and House of Secrets 91 (First Ra's Al Ghul, and First Swamp Thing respectively)

I have both.

So, and this is mere speculation by the way, the desire to cash in on that book, has brought several Hulk Collections out of mothballs in the hope (or even reality) that it contains that issue, and that they can get a chunk of change for it.

[Mego Superboy Prime]

Not many around my part so it probably depends on location.

[VintageMike]

I see ton's of 70's stuff in those boxes not just Hulks and have built some pretty nice runs out of them.
With the exception of some of the earliest issues I completed my entire Defenders run from those boxes. I picked up a few issues of Spider-Woman just because they were there and ended up completing the 50 issue set. To a lesser extent I've picked a ton of Avengers in the 2-$4.00 range. I'm not complaining as the 70's Marvel are probably my favorites and being able to find so many on the cheap is a dream come ture.

[Marvelmania]

All I ever find in the $1 boxes are Howard the Duck and Dazzler comics. Those 70s Hulk comics are some of my favorites!

[pmwasson]

I bought Hulk 181 for 10 cents at a garage sale when I was young. I wish I still had it.

[Hector]

I sold my Hulk 181 about five years ago for $800.

[Drzsmith]

I recently bought Hulk 180-182 for $26,$325 and $20 all in Very Fine condition.Very pleased to find them so cheap!