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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 22, 2014 11:38:41 GMT -5
I was never a Hulk fan and never read the book with anything approaching regularity. The vast majority of the issues I own were picked up at yard sales. I'm not sure I ever bought more than a couple issues of a Hulk magazine in a row.
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 22, 2014 12:28:12 GMT -5
I can't speak for every instance but in the case of Journey #112, an expanded retelling of Avengers #3, Hulk was allied with Sub-Mariner at the time and actively working to defeat, if not destroy, the Avengers. That would certainly make him unworthy in Odin's eyes. Cei-U! The prosecution rests! Ah, yes. The "surly" Hulk and his brief flirtation with super-villainy ("I was young. My series was cancelled. I needed the money."). Can't argue with that reasoning.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2014 12:37:46 GMT -5
It's new stuff, but I am looking forward to the first 2 arcs in Marvel's new Savage Hulk book-a non-continuity book that just features creators telling Hulk stories they want to do... The first is written and drawn by Alan Davis and the second by Jim Starlin...and since it is titled Savage Hulk, I think it should feature the type of Hulk stories I like. -M mrp, have you as a Conan fan enjoyed Planet Hulk? I found it quite Conanesque. I read the trade from the library and thought it was ok. Good not great, and not something I would return to to read again. The covers by Ladronn were absolutely gorgeous though, unfortunately the covers were the best part of it for me. The bits and pieces of art by Marshall Rogers in it were a draw too though. I do however own the animated adaptation of it, and enjoyed that. -M
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Post by Cei-U! on May 22, 2014 13:26:27 GMT -5
Ah, yes. The "surly" Hulk and his brief flirtation with super-villainy ("I was young. My series was cancelled. I needed the money."). Can't argue with that reasoning. That's actually my favorite version of the Hulk, the only time I've found him genuinely interesting. I like the "big green child" version in small doses, especially when he's with the Defenders, but overall I'm just lukewarm about the character. Cei-U! I summon the big green "Meh"
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Post by Rob Allen on May 22, 2014 13:52:46 GMT -5
Trivia tidbit - from the Hulk's introduction in May 1962 up to TTA #84 in October 1966 (cover dates, inclusive), every story he appeared in, both his own and as a guest star, had pencils or layouts by either Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko - except one. What is the one Hulk story (not cover) in Greenskin's first four-and-a-half years that neither Kirby or Ditko had a hand in? I'll post the answer tomorrow, or more likely, congratulate the first person who posts the answer. That would be the Giant-Man story in Tales to Astonish #59, art by Ayers and Reinman. Cei-U! Didn't even have to look it up! I suspected it wouldn't take long, and it didn't. Congrats, Kurt! Here's something I remember seeing but can't find - at some point circa 1968-74, Marvel published a one or two-page featurette of different artists' versions of the Hulk, cut & pasted from various stories over the years. Does anyone know where that appeared, or better yet, have a scan of it?
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Post by Cei-U! on May 22, 2014 14:17:05 GMT -5
Here's something I remember seeing but can't find - at some point circa 1968-74, Marvel published a one or two-page featurette of different artists' versions of the Hulk, cut & pasted from various stories over the years. Does anyone know where that appeared, or better yet, have a scan of it? It's the last page of the '68 Hulk Annual. Cei-U! I summon the Marvel Masterpiece Pin-Up!
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Post by Hoosier X on May 22, 2014 14:24:40 GMT -5
That would be the Giant-Man story in Tales to Astonish #59, art by Ayers and Reinman. Cei-U! Didn't even have to look it up! I suspected it wouldn't take long, and it didn't. Congrats, Kurt! Here's something I remember seeing but can't find - at some point circa 1968-74, Marvel published a one or two-page featurette of different artists' versions of the Hulk, cut & pasted from various stories over the years. Does anyone know where that appeared, or better yet, have a scan of it? I remember something like that that I think was in the Hulk Marvel Treasury Edition. (I believe it's #5 and it's from 1975.)
It had the artists' initials to help you identify the pencillers and inkers.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 22, 2014 14:30:23 GMT -5
I found it! Thanks to both of you.
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Post by paulie on May 22, 2014 14:33:20 GMT -5
I'm a bigger fan of Herb Trimpe than I am of the Hulk, to tell you the truth, but I totally agree with you that HT's long run was the Golden Age of that series. Whether it was Lee, Thomas, Friedrich, Goodwin, Englehart or Wein handling the scripts, Trimpe always delivered intelligently structured layouts that, if not especially innovative, drew on a wide range of storytelling techniques to propel his narrative forward. His (charitably put) idiosyncratic draftsmanship could be distracting so the presence of strong inkers like John Severin and Syd Shores becomes critical to the aesthetics of his approach, though even inkers I don't normally care for like Sal Trapani mesh well with Trimpe. His version of ol' purple pants is definitive and my second favorite, surpassed only by the Andru/Everett version from Marvel Feature #1, and he drew the best big monsters and futuristic military ordnance better tha anybody this side of Kirby. As I mentioned on one of the old boards, one of favorite Marvel stories ever is "Heaven is a Very Small Place," and the story from #179, where Crackajack Jackson teaches Hulk to write his own name, isn't far behind him. Cei-U! I summon the big green galoot! I think I like the character a little better than you sir... but... what you said!
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Post by paulie on May 22, 2014 14:34:23 GMT -5
I've noted before that the title was pretty much the first Marvel superhero title I bought at least semi-regularly, starting circa #106 (Spider-Man I started a couple of months after that). Love that first year or so of the mag; the next couple or three dozen issues aren't exactly horrible, either. Agreed. Agreed.
Figured you'd love the Severin-Trimpe team bunches.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2014 14:41:38 GMT -5
I've noted before that the title was pretty much the first Marvel superhero title I bought at least semi-regularly, starting circa #106 (Spider-Man I started a couple of months after that). Love that first year or so of the mag; the next couple or three dozen issues aren't exactly horrible, either. Agreed. Agreed.
Figured you'd love the Severin-Trimpe team bunches.
Yes, indeed. Off the top of my head, other than the obvious Kull, Hulk is the only character that both Marie & John ever drew in common (well, John was inking Trimpe, of course ... not sure if he ever pencilled the character, except perhaps on a cover here & there). I love both their interpretations, not at all surprisingly.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2014 14:42:36 GMT -5
Agreed. Agreed.
Figured you'd love the Severin-Trimpe team bunches.
Yes, indeed. Typing off the top of my head (a rather difficult feat, I might add), other than the obvious Kull, Hulk is the only character that both Marie & John ever drew in common (well, John was inking Trimpe, of course ... not sure if he ever pencilled the character, except perhaps on a cover here & there), I think. I love both their interpretations, not at all surprisingly.
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Post by paulie on May 22, 2014 15:04:44 GMT -5
Yes, indeed. Typing off the top of my head (a rather difficult feat, I might add), other than the obvious Kull, Hulk is the only character that both Marie & John ever drew in common (well, John was inking Trimpe, of course ... not sure if he ever pencilled the character, except perhaps on a cover here & there), I think. I love both their interpretations, not at all surprisingly. I believe the Ayers-Severin team did a couple of issues as well. I think one was during the classic .25 cent everything is giant-sized month.
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Post by MDG on May 22, 2014 15:05:14 GMT -5
Just want to toss in here that this love-fest for Herb Trimpe would've been unheard of in a lot of fan circles 20 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2014 15:08:14 GMT -5
I believe the Ayers-Severin team did a couple of issues as well. I think one was during the classic .25 cent everything is giant-sized month. That rings a bit of a bell. I'll have to go digging into my Essentials when I get home.
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