I will say this though, this issue is curiously absent from my collection and I may have a long box of 70s and 80s hulks, so I have to wonder if people in the know have been plucking them for years waiting for the racoon to explode. I find this hard to imagine as a lot of those Hulks I have were bought in the 80s and early/mid 90s out of 25 cent boxes when rocket was truly a fringe character, but it is what it is. It could be I just skipped it because of the stupid looking cover, but that has never stopped me before.
People were buying them because it was a first comic appearance. People have always bought first appearances for speculation purposes.
As a very long time Hulk collector I can tell you I *HATED* that book.
How's about scoff?