Comic Books – The Incredible Hulk History

In this article we’re going to cover the history of one of the
most changing comic books and characters ever – The Incredible
Hulk
The Incredible Hulk was another Marvel creation from the genius
mind of Stan Lee The character debuted in 1962 and thus began a
strange evolution of a character that was probably the most
tormented in comic book history
The Incredible Hulk was Dr Bruce Banner He was a scientist
experimenting with gamma rays Well, one of this experiments
went haywire and Banner was exposed to the gamma rays himself
He was close to death and miraculously survived, but not without
paying a huge price It seems that whenever Banner became angry
he would transform into this hideous green creature who became
known as The Hulk
Unlike most other super heroes, The Hulk was not good He wasn’t
entirely bad either He would come to the aid of the underdog
and saved many an innocent person in his day But he had very
little affection for law and order Maybe it had something to do
with the fact that they were trying to kill him all the time
The Hulk consequently inflicted as much harm on the upholders of
justice as he would do to the criminals He was an odd bird all
right
Oddly, the first comic with the green Hulk lasted only 6 issues
when the appearance of the Grey Hulk hit the stands In this
incarnation Banner would transform into the Grey Hulk at night
and then back to himself when dawn came The reason for this was
because Banner could not live with what he had become So he
transformed into his darker side at night to let out his ugly
side, since Banner was afraid of the dark This was done without
him knowing it In later issues however, it was done
consciously
In 1964, two years after the first appearance of The Hulk, there
was an issue of Tales To Astonish featuring Giant Man where he
ended up meeting and fighting The Hulk In the next issue of
that book it would split into two sections The first section
would feature Giant Man and the second section would feature the
Hulk Finally in issue number 70, The Sub-Mariner took over
Giant-Man’s place in the book
It wasn’t until 1968 that The Hulk took over the whole book It
was at this time that Tales To Astonish was dropped and the new
title for the book was The Incredible Hulk This is the reason
why you never find issues 7 through 101 of the Incredible Hulk,
the only comic book hero to suffer this comic numbering fate
The Hulk basically ran this way until 1998 when a book came out
called “The Rampaging Hulk” which tells of the early history of
The Hulk before anybody knew Bruce Banner was The Hulk It
lasted six issues
Finally, in 1999 The Incredible Hulk ended its run with issue
number 474 But it didn’t stay dead After the new comic titled
simply “The Hulk” hit the stands, 12 issues in, the word
Incredible was added back to the title The Incredible Hulk had
returned
The Hulk was such a popular character it saw its way into
cartoons and a feature movie, which unfortunately was not true
to the comic and quite awful according to critics

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