My 3 favourite for various reasons:

She-Hulk GN - great JB story

Spider-Man: Hooky GN - beautifully weird Wrightson art

Revenge of the Living Monolith GN - Isherwood's magnificent inking.

Here's the back cover :

When this came out, I was already buying all things Byrne, but I had to hold off on this one for a while - I was like... 12, and back then, buying all things Byrne meant a few $.65 comics each month!  This book was, what, $5.95 or something?  That was like a few weeks of comics money!  I think I used birthday money or something - and when I finally got it - keep in mind I was like 12 - I was thilled to see ... yes, NEKKID Ladies in it!

That Byrne!   That Scallywag!  That Bon Vivant!  That Ne'er-do-well!  That Scoundral!

Later, looking at the book with adult eyes - it's a hell of a story.  Great twists and turns - a real fun spy/sci-fi story.  A hell of a read - a must-buy for any of you who don't have it.

I loved this book. I'd never seen the character as being attractive until John Byrne worked with her.

There's a lot of panels in that story that really threw my young mind into some steamy moments! JB, is there a reason this book was so...sexual/adult-themed? Was it the format of a graphic novel that allowed it to be geared towards an older crowd?

After reading your post, i've checked my book, and in fact, there's no comic code approval on it.

Wich brings us what is for me the most erotic picture of She-Hulk. And even in F.F. #275 (the one with the "Hughes Heffner" guy taking pictures of Jen while tanning), there's nothing like it.

But the "adult" orientation of this book is also, i've just found it years later, in the political view of the S.H.I.E.L.D.
To thoses who didn't read it, Nick Fury was ordered to capture She-Hulk, to check if she's a possible treat just like her cousin. He refuse and goes on hollydays not to be here.
Now the idea is about a criticism of the Shield's methods, against democracy and the peoples' legal rigths. Especially when it comes to bad hands, such as Dooley's ones (the blond guy who stripped Jen and watch the tapes later in his office).

About this thread, i found two things interresting.
- A lot of fans here didn't knew about this issue, and never had heard of it.
- Thoses who read it loves it and remember it.

This book is from 1985. Now, was there a bad sales ? Was it bad promoted, or baddly distributed ?

I am a big fan of Kim's inking on this book!! I thought he did some wonderful work, especially inking her hair. JB's art wasn't bad either ; )

While I have heard of this graphic novel and seen its cover, I have never read it and was never interested previously in buying it.  Here are my reasons:

1) The cover never seemed interesting to me.

2) I had no idea what the story was about, and if I was going to pay that much money (a whole $6.95 in 1985!) I wanted an idea of what the story was about.

Plus when it first came out, I was not a big fan of the She-Hulk.  I only started to like (as opposed to tolerate) the character when JB returned to her in She-Hulk mini-series.

One thing that bothers me about a lot of Marvel GNs is that very often the story was not big enough for the format.  Some obviously were - the Death of Captain Marvel, Triumph & Torment, God Loves, Man Kills.  But so many more are simply forgettable even if they might have been illustrated well (like Charles Vess' beautiful, but utterly pointless Spider-Man GN).

So what was the big there here?  Do the people who have read think the story was big enough, or was it simply entertaining?

This is one of my all-time favorite graphic novels of all time. While it's a stand-alone story, it still moves She-Hulk forward dramatically as well as permanently.

Well, as permanently as comics ever get, obviously.