Issue(s): Hulk #249
Published Date: Jul 80
Title: "Jack Frost nipping at your soul!"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Steve Ditko - Penciler
Steve Ditko - Inker

Review/plot:
Guest artist Steve Ditko. He's been back at Marvel on the fringes, doing a Micronauts annual and drawing Machine Man. Ditko's art hasn't really changed that much.

He's best drawing the slightly bizarre, and for the most part this issue is straightforward, so it's not a great fit.

The Hulk encounters Blizzard, who is back to calling himself Jack Frost.

After several defeats at the hands of Iron Man, he's decided to cut himself off from humanity and live in an ice cave. But the Hulk stumbles in and Frost's attempts to get rid of him just make things worse.

Eventually the Hulk leaves and Frost seemingly dies in a cave-in.

Meanwhile, Betty, Fred, and Rick show up at General Ross' cabin. Ross and Samson are still out hunting, but a giant Centaurio bursts into the cabin, wounded.

This should have been a quiet whimsical little story but Mantlo turns it into a stupid Misunderstanding Fight.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: This issue starts with the Hulk asleep and having bad dreams about his trip through the micro-verse.

References: N/A

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: N/A

This is one of the few times Ditko went back to a character he drew in the 1960s(though admittedly he didn't draw the Hulk for long back then), something he typically refused to do otherwise. According to a Fred Hembeck page, Ditko actually turned down a stint on Captain America and X-Men Annual #4.