![]() With its re-titling to The Hulk!, the series turned to using stories set contemporaneously with the majority of Marvel publications (including its sister title The Incredible Hulk). speaking in his "Hulk smash!" pidgin English, changing to and from Bruce Banner based on his emotions, and wearing tattered purple trousers whereas in the claimed time frame, he should have spoken fluent, if gangsterish, English, transformed via a gamma ray machine, and wore neat purple trunks. Despite the stories being placed in the past, they depicted the Hulk's character as he was contemporaneously, e.g. A problem with this was pointed out by fans in the letter columns. The stories in The Rampaging Hulk were set between the end of his original, short-lived solo title and the beginning of his feature in Tales to Astonish. Most of the stories were written by Glenn Greenberg with art by Rick Leonardi and Dan Green. Ī six-issue comic book series in color, also titled The Rampaging Hulk, was published from August 1998 to January 1999 by Marvel. It was canceled with issue #27 (June 1981). With issue #24, the magazine returned to black-and-white, though it published the last Dominic Fortune backup story in full color. ![]() 1980) has been criticized for its depiction of an attempted rape of Bruce Banner and the use of anti-gay stereotypes. The story "A Very Personal Hell" in issue #23 (Oct. The Moon Knight was featured in issues #11–15, #17–18, and #20, featuring some of Bill Sienkiewicz's early work starting in #13, when his style was similar to that of Neal Adams. Through its run, the magazine published backup features starring Ulysses Bloodstone (issues #1–6 and 8) the Man-Thing (issue #7) and Shanna the She-Devil (issue #9). The coloring of the color issues was done by Steve Oliff, using a system developed by Rick Marschall for the magazine. ![]() (doing some of his first professional work), Keith Pollard, Jim Starlin, Joe Jusko, Bill Sienkiewicz, Val Mayerik, Herb Trimpe, Brent Anderson, and Gene Colan provided interior artwork while writers such as Starlin, Doug Moench, Roger Stern, Dennis O'Neil, and Archie Goodwin took on the scripting chores. 1979).Īrtists such as Walt Simonson, John Buscema, Howard Chaykin, John Romita Sr., John Romita Jr. ![]() Norem's work on the series included a darkly-lit close-up of the Hulk's face, looking angry and gritting his teeth with one of his fists raised, done for The Hulk! #17 (Oct. The magazine featured fully painted covers by such artists as Ken Barr, Earl Norem, and Joe Jusko. 1978), the bi-monthly magazine changed its title to The Hulk! and became a full-color book utilizing "Marvelcolor". ![]() The Rampaging Hulk ran for nine issues from January 1977 to June 1978. The series had a second run of six issues from August 1998 to January 1999. With the change to color and the title to The Hulk!, the magazine became Marvel's attempt to cash in on the popularity of The Incredible Hulk TV series, starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, both of whom were prominently featured and interviewed over the course of the magazine's run, as was executive producer Kenneth Johnson. It was a rare attempt by Marvel to mix their superhero characters with the "mature readers" black-and-white magazine format. With issue #10, it changed its format to color and its title to The Hulk!, and ran another 17 issues before it was canceled in 1981. The first volume was a black and white magazine published by Curtis Magazines (an imprint of Marvel) from 1977–1978. The Rampaging Hulk is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics. ![]()
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