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Posted: 02 May 2008 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | 1  

Only just!
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Lars Sandmark
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Doc Samson is such a great character if used properly, like here in JB's issues.
Not being an A-lister, he can be shown to fail or make errors. It makes him so much more interesting in that context. Also, when he succeeds, it makes it so much more satisfying too. (As shown here in the single-clobber flattening of THE Hulk!)
A character that the audience can almost relate to in that in-over-my-head way. Samson showed how to be heroic in that same vein because he never backed down. He leapt into action immediately.

That's how I like my comic stories to play out.
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Like Didier said, those issues never were published in France. At the time i was still reading Marvel in french, and the publisher in charge of the Hulk (Aredit/Artima) had run out of business before the begining of JB's run.

When Semic (new name of Lug- and new owner too) got the rights of the Hulk, some years later, they began with the merged Hulk by David & McKeon.

Both the whole Byrne run and the first few years of Peter David - wasn't there a Milgrom run between them too?- weren't published.

Some issues of the Grey Hulk David/McFarlane/Larsen were later published in a trade (8 of them), but never Byrne nor the most part of those David years. Nor Milgrom.

I became aware of the Byrne run when i began to buy the american edition, in 1990. Thats also when i read his Superman in back issues. But i never got his Hulk. I must say it looks great.

Thanks for this thread.



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Leigh DJ Hunt
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Wow, I'd forgotten those Marvel Age pages which means I'm now bugged as they aren't in the trades. Arghhh!

Anyway, I lvoed this issue so much when it came out (apart from Hulk killing the deer which shocked me a bit)! The art was just beautiful and I couldn't wait to read years and years of this run....

edit: Reading JB's comments and hearing there's an Amazing Heroes interview about the run makes me sad.
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Glenn Greenberg
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<<<Doc Samson is such a great character if used properly>>>


Yeah, like in the Bruce Jones run, where he was portrayed as having once been a gun-runner for the U.S. government who fathered a child out of wedlock with a female government operative!

But seriously, folks...

(It still amazes me that Jones apparently couldn't just look the character up on the Internet to get his ACTUAL backstory.)



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But breaking the toys is so much more FUN (apparently).

A few years back, a writer was offered a character I had "created", for a
monthly series. His response was "only if I can change the character
completely". Which, to me, is the same as saying "no thanks". Not to the
editor on the book, apparently, and so what amounted to an entirely
different character was coattailed onto the existing title.

At the time, that was an exception to the rule. Of late, it seems to have
become the rule!
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Gavin Curtis
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I suppose someone should post this before the next issue!!!

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Since these Book Club threads are about exploring past runs, perhaps it
would be interesting to see significant prior handlings of the character
included. I always thought that a few pages from Fantastic Four #’s 220 and
221 should have been included in the first FF Book Club thread at least
tangentially for discussion. Anyway, does anyone have the Hulk Annual that
JB drew to post pages (if I had it, I would)? While I know he didn’t write it, it
might be interesting to examine and have JB speak to the genesis of his
interpretation of the character.
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Peter Martin
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Love the artwork in this issue and Wiacek's inks. I can remember being so excited when I found this issue (probably 2 or 3 years after it was published). I started collecting comics in about 1985 and missed these great issues when they first came out.
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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I missed this one...but this short run is fabulous. I got my Visionaries already!
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