- Script
- Peter Gillis (script); Roger Stern (plot; script rewrite)
- Pencils
- Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Klaus Janson (finished art)
- Inks
- Klaus Janson
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- Rick Parker (pages 2-17, uncredited); Gaspar Saladino (splash)
- Job Number
- C-980
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doc Samson; Hulk [Bruce Banner] (origin retold with details)
- Reprints
- in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #84/85 ([août 1978]) [N&B [B&W]]
- in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #316 (October 18, 1978) [partial reprint, likely second half of story]
- in L'Uomo Ragno [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #271 (19 Settembre 1980)
- in The Incredible Hulk: The Secret Story of Marvel's Gamma-Powered Goliath (Ideals Publishing Corp., 1981 series) (1981)
- in Hulk (Atlantic Forlag, 1980 series) #10/1981 ([oktober] 1981)
- in Hulk el Hombre Increíble (Editorial Novaro, 1980 series) #80 (16 de mayo de 1983)
- in Gamma la bombe qui a créé Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #22 - Un monstre au campus (juillet 1983) [-2 pages]
- in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #7 ([December] 2013)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 2003 series) #14 (2020)
Continued in Incredible Hulk Annual #7. Lettering credit 2005 by Steven Tice.
Per Peter Gillis to Frank Lovece on August 2, 2021 re: "The Incredible Hulk" #227: "Roger Stern and I had talked about moving decisively away from the Len Wein (and Steve Gerber in "The Defenders") cuddly Hulk of Crackajack Jackson and beans, and towards a Hulk who’s an actual monster. Roger plotted the issue based, in part, on our discussions, and I scripted it — and then Roger rewrote parts of the script. The next issue [#228] has me as full co-writer, since I wrote the plot, Roger rewrote the plot, I wrote the script, and Roger rewrote that."
- Script
- Roger Stern ?
- Pencils
- John Byrne (illustration)
- Inks
- Bob Layton (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Includes a house ad for the Incredible Hulk Annual # 7.