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Oddly enough... I'm agreeing with Ultra? I don't really like the Hulk character, but I picked up Planet Hulk and fell in love with it <3 Go get it.

Also I haven't read the Clone Saga yet of Ultimate Spider-man, I've only read up to about vol.15/16, but any and all of Ultimate Spider-man is well recommended. I also enjoyed The Ultimates 1&2, volumes 1 and 2 of both series.

I don't know so much if you'd call them tpbs or anthologies, but Essential X-Men vol.1-8 are probably my favourite tpbs out. They're the black and white reprints of the X-Men strips from the 70's (with the restart of the X-Men series in Giant X-Men 1 and the introduction of Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler) up to the late 80s involving classic storylines like Dark Phoenix, Mutant Massacre and Inferno. The comics that are collected in there are probably my favourites and are definitely a time period when Marvel was at its finest. (The 80's Spider-man with the Hobgoblin saga was also awesometastic, but as far as I'm aware it hasn't been reprinted in an Essential collection yet =( ) Also the Essential anthologies should all be cheapish and so definitely represent bang for your buck.

Maybe some Runaways would be good. I've only read the first two volumes but it was enjoyable and the series as a whole has had positive reviews.