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Debuting in his own comic in 1962, the Incredible Hulk has made numerous appearances in movies, television, and video games. For the Many Intros series we’re only interested in television, where he has appeared in animation and one live-action series since 1966. That’s four years from comic to TV.
Some of these shows ended up with multiple intros due to season changes, but it’s still enough for one article. Note that I am not including various team-up appearances like Avengers shows or cameos in other series. This is Hulk shows starring Bruce Banner (unless they call him David because he’s supposed to be Bruce) as the main Hulk. Mostly this is a way to look at all the various Hulk shows, no movies or games. So grab your asbestos outfits and stay out of bomb range because we’re going to look at the various TV incarnations of the Jade Giant.
I can’t pad this out any further, homepage readers. Sorry.
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Robotech II: The Sentinels #2
Eternity Comics (December, 1988)
“A New Threat” part II
WRITERS: Tom Mason & Chris Ulm
ARTIST: John Waltrip
COVER COLORIST: Scott Bieser
LETTERER: Clem Robins
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He was calling her “pretty lady” a little while earlier. I wonder if Marlena ever told Adam about the movie Star Wars?
We 80s kids know the true origin story of He-Man and She-Ra…well, more She-Ra than He-Man. We never saw how Prince Adam became He-Man but we did see how Adora, lost princess of Eternia, was located on the sister planet Etheria and became its champion, She-Ra. Kidnapped as a baby by Hordak, she almost never gained her legacy…except she stayed on Etheria in the hopes of liberating it from Hordak, at least on the show. In the minicomics and some other media, Hordak returned to Eternia to conquer it because the Evil Horde was intended as a third column, a second threat so dangerous that He-Man and Skeletor would even join forces to oppose him on occasion.
That’s not how it was supposed to happen. At least in the mythology of Eternia. The show and other media did it so the Princess Of Power toyline could exist and Filmation could capitalize on the strong women of He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe with a girl centric show that boys might also enjoy the show the way their sisters did their show. Then they could play together if Mattel was smart enough to make the two toylines compatible. Which they didn’t due to internal struggles between the boys and girls divisions I won’t get into here.
So what would of happened if the bearer of the Sword Of Power and the bearer of the Sword Of Protection had not been separated by the Horde? What if Adora had remained on Eternia, raised alongside her brother, and granted her powers at the same time? She would need another steed (but for sake of following along we’ll still call him Spirit/Swift Wind alongside Cringer/Battlecat), but what else would change about the dynamic of having the most powerful man and woman, siblings, working together to defend Eternia and Castle Grayskull? Well, why should Game Theory and Film Theory have all the fun with fictional theorizing, especially when they probably wouldn’t cover this one. Let’s have some fun today and figure that out.
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Now this is what the characters are supposed to look like!
Archie’s Comic Spectacular, FCBD Edition
Archie Comic Publications (May, 2025)
WRITERS: Goldie Chan, Ian Flynn, Timmy Heague, Dan Parent, Adrian Ropp, & Jamie Lee Rotante
PENCILERS: Steven Butler, Holly G!, Bill Galvan, & Dan Parent
INKERS: Jim Amash, Lily Butler, Ben Galvan, & Bob Smith
COVER ART: Steven Butler, Lily Butler, Holly G!, Bll Galvan, Ben Galvan, Dan Parent, & Rosario “Tito” Peña
COLORIST: Glenn Whitmore
LETTERER: Jack Morelli
EDITORS: Jaime Lee Rotante, Vincent Lovallo, & Stephen Oswald
Nice to see the Archie characters looking like the Archie characters again, though clearly they’re a bit rusty on this art style over at Archie, having done a more realistic style for the re-imagine starting some years ago. I haven’t been following, but I hope this is Archie returning to form rather than a tease before sticking back to the CW look. The various stories in this comic credits which writers and artists worked on that particular story, with Whitmore and Morelli in their roles throughout the book. I just didn’t want to go through the trouble with six stories to review.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 7, 2025 in Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, fans, fans vs creators, Hollywood, Hollywood versus fans.
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