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The Hulk, a character with immense power and limited intelligence, has proven to be one of Marvel's most memorable heroes. His overt appeal lies in his embodiment of ferocious brute force. Yet there is more to The Hulk than meets the eye.

Like The Sub-Mariner (1939) before him, The Hulk sometimes appears to be a villain, and his destructive rages allow readers to blow off steam of their own. At the same time, however, The Hulk's ugliness and limited intellect make him a pathetic figure. When he first appeared in 1962, writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby depicted The Hulk as a crafty monster,

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but the early decision to diminish his brain power somehow made him more attractive. For one thing, it provided a greater contrast with the creature's alter ego, Bruce Banner.

Another early change was also significant: at first The Hulk was a nocturnal being, summoned by the sunset, but before long, Banner's emotions became the trigger that transformed him into a rampaging beast. In short, symbolically The Hulk became force guided by feeling.

Bruce Banner, however, is almost pure intellect. He represents science in the service of the military, an alliance symbolized by his romance with a general's daughter. A researcher employed to create weapons for the government, Banner was out of touch with his feelings and unaware of his power; only when his "gamma bomb" turned him into The Hulk was he forced to confront his deeper emotions.

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And he needs his crude, embarrassing other self more than it needs him: when an experiment temporarily divided man and monster into separate entities with independent existences, Banner began to waste away.

On the surface, The Hulk may suggest the dangers of anti-intellectualism, but when he lashes out minslessly, he frequently finds the right target. His instinctive impulses serve as a reminder that our physical and emotional lives are not to be despised. And the ultimate irony, of course, is that brilliant Bruce Banner, builder of nuclear bombs, is actually far more dangerous than the brutish Hulk.

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At an Army base in the desert, Dr. Bruce Banner is readying the first test of his invention, the G-Bomb. General "Thunderbolt" Ross wants to know why Banner keeps delaying the test. His daughter Betty tries to calm him down, with little success. Banner tells Ross that the final countdown has begun. His assistant, Igor, demands that Banner share his work so that someone may check his calculations. "I don't make errors, Igor," says Bruce, and, when Igor threatens him, "You know how I detest men who think with their fists."

Banner takes a last look at the bomb with binoculars. He notices a teenage boy in a car, tells Igor to halt the countdown, and hurries after the boy in a jeep. Igor, who supposedly defected to the U.S. from the Soviet Union, is a spy and decides not to stop the countdown so that America will lose its greatest nuclear physicist.

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Banner gets the boy into a trench, but, before he can jump in himself, the G-Bomb explodes! Gamma rays saturate Banner's body.

Hours later, Banner regains his senses. The boy, Rick Jones, who drove onto the base on a dare, brought him back to base.

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Banner waits for some kind of symptoms to appear. When night falls, Jones turns on a "radio," actually a Geiger counter. Its clicking increases, and Banner changes into a huge grey figure. "Get out of my way, insect," says the figure, shoving Jones aside. He pushes through the wall, wrecks a jeep full of soldiers when it hits him, and wanders off to hide. Jones follows.

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The thing that was once Banner, with Jones trailing him, sneaks past the soldiers trying to find him and finds Banner's cabin. Inside, Igor is trying to find Banner's notes. He shoots at the Hulk, without effect. The Hulk takes away his gun and crumples it with one hand. He picks up Igor and slams him down on a lab bench. Jones notices a folder taped to the bottom of a large beaker, labeled "Top Secret: Report on Gamma Ray Bomb," and takes it. The Hulk picks up a photo of Banner and says, "I - I know that face!! But it is weak - soft!! I hate it! Take it away!" Jones reminds him that he is Banner.

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The Hulk briefly remembers what happened, then says, "I don't need you! I don't need anybody! With my strength - my power - the world is mine! As for you - you are the only one who knows who I really am!" He advances on Jones. The sun comes up at that moment, and the Hulk changes back into Banner.

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The MPs storm in, arrest Igor, ask Banner about the Hulk, take the folder, and leave. Betty comes to apologize for her father's outburst and tells him he should get medical attention. Banner says he'll call her and shows her out. He tells Jones that he's afraid he will change again at sunset.

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In his cell, Igor uses a transmitter overlaid on his thumbnail. The message finds its way to the Gargoyle, a deformed Soviet scientist and secret agent, who travels by submarine and short-range missile to the desert. Banner and Jones take a jeep out into the desert before night falls, in case he changes again. He does change, and the Hulk wrecks the jeep. He recognizes the area near Ross's house and decides to visit Betty. At the same time, Betty decides to take a walk. She encounters the Hulk and faints in his arms. The Gargoyle appears.

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The Gargoyle shoots the Hulk and Jones with drug-filled bullets, making them like robots. They follow him to a truck, whose driver also gets shot. Ross finds Betty, who was frightened by her encounter but says, "In spite of everything, there was something... something sad about him!! Almost as though he was seeking... help!" Ross says, "If it takes an eternity, I'll find that monster!"

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The Gargoyle and his captives reach a sub on the coast and get into a jet. As they streak towards the USSR, the sun rises on the Hulk, who changes back into Banner. Upon landing, the Gargoyle is astounded to find a man instead of a monster. He begins to cry, because he wants to be normal too. Banner treats him with radiation, which makes him look normal but takes away his super intelligence. The man who was once the Gargoyle realizes how the state has used him, so he puts Banner and Jones on a jet for home and blows up his base along with himself.

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Daredevil Vs. She-Hulk - Marvel Super Heroes: What The--?! Ep. 33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i4f6Wk9W6M

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Love is blind (if you love someone, you cannot see the faults in that person)

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First appearance of the GREEN Hulk and the
Toad Men in "The Terror of the Toad Men!"

Part 1: Enter... the Toad Men

A sheriff sees the Hulk wade out of a swamp. He warns the inhabitants of his small town, who take refuge indoors. When the Hulk arrives, a truck rams into him, and a group of state troopers try to tackle him, all without effect. Rick Jones arrives and leads the Hulk away.

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The next morning, after the Hulk reverted back into his human form Bruce Banner, Banner pleads with Rick to leave him, since he cannot control the Hulk and doesn't want his friend to be killed, but Rick refuses, since Banner saved his life in the accident that caused Banner to become the Hulk at night. Banner then says that there is no place where he can hide the Hulk, and says that every night will be a war between Hulk and mankind.

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A ship of Toad Men lands. Their mind detector puts them on the trail of Bruce Banner, "the most brilliant scientific mind on Earth," so that they can gauge the potential resistance to their coming invasion. Banner and Jones meet General Ross and Betty Ross as they set out "to conduct a little scientific research." They go to a cave Banner found; he has set up a ten-foot-thick concrete door that he hopes will keep the Hulk contained at night. Jones promises to seal and reopen the door for him. Suddenly, a beam pushes Banner and Jones against a wall and holds them there!

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Part 2: Prisoners of the Toad Men!

The Toad Men use magnetic beams to carry Banner and Jones to their ship. They go into orbit. The captain, Torrak, tells Banner that their fleet is ready to invade Earth and that their mastery of magnetism makes them invincible. Banner refuses to talk. The Toad Men send Jones back to Earth in a "plastic cylinder." The ship passes behind the Earth, thus bringing night and turning Banner into the Hulk. He bursts out of his cell and locks up the crew. Seeing the amazing weaponry on the ship, he vows to "be the hunter instead of the hunted."

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Below, the military launches a barrage of missiles at the Toad Men ship. They hit! The ship crashes in the desert. General Ross and his men surround it.

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Part 3: Bruce Banner, Wanted for Treason!

Out of the wreckage steps Banner. Ross arrests him for treason. The Toad Men create an underground tunnel and escape; once clear, they fire a flare to summon their fleet. Betty tries to plead Banner's case with her father, but the phone rings. A fleet of alien ships has appeared in the skies.

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The Toad King overrides all the television and radio signals and makes an announcement.

Part 4: Hulk Runs Amok!

The Toad King says that his fleet will train all their magnetic rays on the Moon and draw it towards the Earth. If the Earthlings do not surrender, the Moon will crash into the Earth, killing everyone.

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In his cell, Banner watches the sun go down. As the Hulk, he breaks through the wall, destroys an artillery piece, and topples a guard tower. He remembers that Ross put him in jail. At Ross's house, he frightens Betty, who screams and draws the attention of soldiers outside. Ross, the soldiers, and even a tank enter a tense stand-off with the Hulk.

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Part 5: The End of the Hulk?

The soldiers pile on the Hulk, but he shakes them off. He grabs Betty, lifts the side of the house, and drops it back in place once he's outside. At Banner's lab, Betty asks, "Who are you?? Why do you hate us so??" The Hulk says, "Hate you?? Why shouldn't I hate you? Why shouldn't I hate all mankind?? Look what men have done to me!" Rick appears, but his efforts to calm the Hulk fail. Before the Hulk can attack Rick, the sun rises, and the monster transforms back into Bruce Banner.

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Told of the situation, Banner realizes that he must turn his Gamma Gun on the Toad Men fleet. No one knows how gamma beams and magnetic fields will interact, but it's the only weapon that may work. With soldiers breaking down the door of his lab, Banner readies the gun. They break through. Jones holds them back with a fire hose. The gun fires! The gamma beam reverses the polarity of the Toad Men's magnetic propulsion, "sending the Toad ships spinning across the void of space, helplessly out of control... forever!"

For saving the world, Banner is cleared of treason. Betty tries to tell Ross that Banner is a good man, but Ross still suspects there is a connection between Banner and the Hulk...

Starting this issue the Hulk has green skin as opposed to the gray skin monster seen last issue. Production wise, this was an editorial decision as it made for easy coloring. However, this was worked into continuity. Some of the following facts about these early transformations were later explored:

Incredible Hulk #324 reintroduced the Grey Hulk.
Incredible Hulk #377 revealed that the Grey Hulk was one of many parts of Bruce Banner's fractured personality.
Incredible Hulk (Vol. 2) #19 theorizes that the Hulk's transformations at night might have been the night-time transformations stemmed from Banner's childhood fear of the dark.

The Toad Men are actually members of the Tribbitite race, their real name was identified in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #11.

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"A Gathering of Evil!"

She-Hulk attempts to fix her pink Cadillac (damaged by Hawkeye’s arrows last issue) but becomes so frustrated she crushes it and throws it in the trash.

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The Wasp arrives and says what she needs is a “fashion makeover” and the women go inside to try on new clothes.

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At his apartment, Hawkeye’s cupboards are bare and his next paycheck for his day job (at Cross-Technological Enterprises) doesn’t come for days. He heads over to the mansion hoping to raid Jarvis’s pantry.

Elsewhere, the villainous Egghead is grousing over the fact that none of his criminal schemes have panned out. Based on a comment by Anna, his flirtatious maid, he concocts a scheme to “buy” the world: he intends to find a formula to provide eternal youth, something that virtually everyone would pay handsomely to attain. Naturally he intends to go about it via criminal means.

Hank Pym has been incarcerated on Rikers’ Island as he awaits trial. His old nemesis Whirlwind confronts him there. The villain taunts him by saying he’s getting out soon and intends to pay a visit to Jan. Hank becomes enraged and attacks him; prison guards haul him away.

Shortly afterwards, an explosion occurs and Whirlwind is freed from imprisonment.

The Avengers gather for their weekly meeting.

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Hawkeye ridicules the new look Jan has put together for She-Hulk. But instead of taking the bait, She-Hulk surprises the archer by kissing him, then dropping him

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The rest of the team are amused.

Egghead addresses his new makeshift team of “associates”: Moonstone, Tiger Shark, Scorpion and Whirlwind. He will be needing them to perform raids for various equipment, and appoints Moonstone as field leader for the team. Egghead wants them all to stay away from any superheroes who might interfere with his work. But Whirlwind has every intention of paying a visit to the Wasp.

After their meeting, the Avengers are dispersing. Jan climbs in the back of her limo, only to find that Whirlwind has subdued her actual driver and impersonated him. She attacks him.

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The rest of the “new Masters of Evil” arrive to reign in Whirlwind, but so does Hawkeye, Thor and She-Hulk. The Wasp demands that She-Hulk remove the couture outfit she bought for her before engaging in battle

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and thus Jennifer has to go into battle in her brief. The Avengers take on the Masters and quickly subdue them.

Plot by Jim Shooter. Script by Steven Grant. Pencils by Greg LaRocque. Inks by Brett Breeding.

This is perhaps the least effective incarnation of the Masters of Evil (one with no associaton to the usual "Masters" leader, Baron Zemo).

However, it is the first line-up to include Moonstone, who would go on to be a pivotal member of the villainous team and of the Thunderbolts.

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>>26153 Appeared first as Matt Murdock
>>26154 Followed by Murdock Vs. Walters
>>26155 OFF screen, She-Hulk lifted DD up in the air followed ON screen with Jennifer and Matt making out.

>>26367
Oh so they actually did a scene with her as a lawyer? I bet they screwed that up too. As corny and flat as Marvel comics are the movies somehow turned out worse, almost intentionally.

>>26368
even cartoons knew to have funny moments and they weren't cringe

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45 YEARS AGO, MARVEL’S STRONGEST SUPERHERO CHANGED THE COURSE OF TV HISTORY
https://www.inverse.com/culture/the-incredible-hulk-45-year-anniversary

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>>26375
She-Hulk Season 2 Confirmed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdGt4A78rA