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Tony Johnson
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Loved this issue, but was upset that the entire Hulk series was not inked by JB.  JB's Hulk art is "raw" (which is a good thing) in this series and I think his inking would have made issues like this even more powerful.  Personally, speaking if JB is not going to ink his own stuff the only other inker I like to see work on his pencils is Terry Austin.  The story was great and in summary, no one holds a candle to drawing the Hulk like JB. 

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Marc Baptiste
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OMGosh... someone please tell me it it DIDN'T take me 22 YEARS to realize that the Hulk never actually appeared in that issue!!?!?
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Brian Hunt
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That opening double page spread was my wall paper for a whole year.  I was very interested to see what lay ahead for Doc Samson.
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<<<isn't this the first comic page to acknowledge that the Hulk was Gray at first?>>>


I believe so--though there may have been an issue very late in the Bill Mantlo run that shows flashback images from the earliest Hulk stories and depicts him with gray skin in at least one of those shots.

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Correct. Up until Hulk # 302 (in a flashback image based on the splash page of Hulk # 1), the Hulk had never been acknowledged as having been gray in any reprinting or retelling of his origin.

JB then made it official in this issue that the Hulk "really" was grey originally.
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Ah the days of Voltron and Ghostbusters.  I love this issue because it has a great story and it also has one JB's recylced title.  He definietly had a plan for his run and unfortunately it was canned before he could realy sink his teeth in.
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I don't have this specific issue in front of me, but I remember a very different feeling than Armindo.  The Hulkbuster's attack on Samson made no sense.  I guess they just wanted to play with their toys and decided if they didn't have their robot they used Doc Samson.  It's ridiculuous, but I also know all of these people got kicked out of whatever they were doing before, so stupid actions like this might have been the reason. (I wonder if JB would have shown the team doing other things just as irresponsible.)  So when Carolyn died, I'm pretty sure Doc Samson jumped right in to try and save her, but it was impossible.  Then they attack him - for something they were responsible for.  Doc Samson just left right away because he knew if he stayed he would just go ballistic on these morons.  He did it to protect them.  But I never felt Doc Samson was callous.
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JB certainly elevated the character of Doc Samson for me in this series. I always thought it was top-notch writing to take the limitation of a mindless Hulk and turn it into a positive by enhancing and improving on exiting characters like Samson.
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JB then made it official in this issue that the Hulk "really" was grey originally.

In retrospect -- and I promise I'm not dissing JB in saying this -- this may have been a mistake, if only because it kicked off the idea that there was more than one Hulk lurking in Banner's head, and ultimately this was taken to ridiculous extremes (Paul Jenkins' run on Hulk postulated that there were dozens of Hulks hidden away in Banner's subconscious), and now we have fanboys praying that the Grey Hulk will show up in the next Marvel Studios movie...

I think "Keep It Simple, Stupid!" is almost as important a rule as "every issue is someone's first issue."

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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Thank you Jason
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