In “I Remember Well,” we spotlight instances where writers pull out long-forgotten plots, characters or attributes of comic book characters. Today, we look at how a character working on a biography about the Hulk An interesting aspect of the Hulk as a comic book character is that due to him being mostly all “Hulk hate puny humans! Hulk smash!” he’s not exactly built for stuff like exposition, or heck, dialogue in general, and as a result, right from the very beginning, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee decided to pair him with a teen sidekick, Rick Jones. The problem for the Hulk is that Jack and Stan seemed to like Rick a little TOO much, and soon enough, Rick was a regular fixture in the pages of The Avengers, where Captain America oddly wanted to make Rick HIS sidekick, as a new successor to Cap’s late partner, Bucky. Roy Thomas later decided to have some fun with the idea of Rick as a perpetual sidekick by bringing him to the pages of Captain Marvel for a revamp of the Mar-Vell character by having Rick and Mar-Vell switch places with each other, in a riff on Billy Batson and the original Captain Marvel.In Incredible Hulk #131 (by Roger Stern, Sal Buscema and Mike Esposito), the Hulk is wandering the street, as he was so often wont to do when a long-haired guy gets thrown out of a bar window by a soldier….
In “I Remember Well,” we spotlight instances where writers pull out long-forgotten plots, characters or attributes of comic book characters. Today, we look at how a character working on a biography about the Hulk
An interesting aspect of the Hulk as a comic book character is that due to him being mostly all “Hulk hate puny humans! Hulk smash!” he’s not exactly built for stuff like exposition, or heck, dialogue in general, and as a result, right from the very beginning, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee decided to pair him with a teen sidekick, Rick Jones. The problem for the Hulk is that Jack and Stan seemed to like Rick a little TOO much, and soon enough, Rick was a regular fixture in the pages of The Avengers, where Captain America oddly wanted to make Rick HIS sidekick, as a new successor to Cap’s late partner, Bucky. Roy Thomas later decided to have some fun with the idea of Rick as a perpetual sidekick by bringing him to the pages of Captain Marvel for a revamp of the Mar-Vell character by having Rick and Mar-Vell switch places with each other, in a riff on Billy Batson and the original Captain Marvel.
In Incredible Hulk #131 (by Roger Stern, Sal Buscema and Mike Esposito), the Hulk is wandering the street, as he was so often wont to do when a long-haired guy gets thrown out of a bar window by a soldier….
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