This was the Green Goliath at his most raw as Stan and Jack kind of felt their way around this complicated character and were trying to figure out what made him tick.ġ2. He got his own strip a little while later in Tales to Astonish, sharing the book first with Giant-Man, then the Sub-Mariner, and featuring an amazing string of talent: Steve Ditko, Kirby, Gil Kane, Bill Everett, Marie Severin, and later on, of course, Herb Trimpe.īut it was the original six-issue run of The Incredible Hulk (May 1962–March 1963), which I furtively read from my brother’s collection, that solidified my love for the Mr. Yeah, this one, as Stan would have said, had it all. My introduction to the Hulk came in Fantastic Four #24-26 (April–May 1964) in an epic slugfest between him and the Thing… and the FF… and the Avengers. The Hulk could just let it all out and pity the poor Army battalion that got in his way!
“Hulk smash!” Yeah, smash ‘em, Hulk! For reasons that we need not get into, I carried around a lot of anger as a kid, and unlike me, the great green monster created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1962 didn’t have to keep his rage bottled up inside him. Cool, right?)īut, ultimately, when you start trying to rank your nostalgia, 13 slots are never going to be enough…ġ3.
DAMMIT MOM COMIC PROFESSIONAL
(By the way, of the 13 characters that made this list, I would get to write 11 of them in one form or another in my professional career. I would become a reader and a fan, but few Marvel characters would have the same impact on me as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the DCU. Marvel Comics didn’t exist when I first became conscious of comic books, and by the time I was old enough to start to appreciate them, I had pretty much gone all-in on DC. Yes, I know there are no characters on this list created much after about 1966, but that just proves my theory: “The Golden Age of Comics is whatever you read when you were 11 years old.”Īnd, yes, I know the majority of my picks are DC characters. You’ll even learn a lot of groovy things too.
He stops in here on a regular basis to riff on his favorite topics and I guarantee you will be entertained. DC, Marvel, his beloved Charlton, you name it. 13th Dimension columnist Paul Kupperberg has seen it all in his 45 years or so in and around the professional comics industry.
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