First Appearance:
Incredible Hulk #1Origin Issue: Incredible Hulk #1
HULK
First Appearance:
Incredible Hulk #1
Origin Issue: Incredible Hulk #1
Real Name: Robert Bruce Banner
Aliases: Joe Fixit, David Bixby, David Banner, Bruce
Bancroft, Mechano, Bruce Jones
Height: 7' 6"
Weight: 1150 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Green
Distinguishing Features: None
Occupation: Unemployed, (former)
Nuclear physicist, (as Fixit) Enforcer
Citizenship: United States of America
Place of Creation/Birth: Dayton, Ohio
Known Relatives: Elizabeth
"Betty" Ross Talbot Banner (wife, deceased), Brian Banner (father, deceased),
Rebecca Banner (mother, deceased), Morris Walters (uncle), Elaine Banner Walters (aunt,
deceased), Jennifer Walters (alias She-Hulk, cousin), Thaddeus E "Thunderbolt"
Ross (father-in-law), Mrs. Drake (aunt, possibly deceased), Cassandra Walters Pike (aunt),
David Pike (cousin)
Known Allies: The Pantheon, (former) Avengers,
Defenders, Doc Samson
Known Enemies: General Thaddeus E
"Thunderbolt" Ross, Major Glenn Talbot (deceased), Tyrannus, Leader,
Abomination, Rhino, Absorbing Man, Modok (deceased)
Intelligence: Genius (7/10)
Strength: Superhuman Class 100 (11/12)
Speed: Enhanced Human (5/10)
Stamina: Metahuman (7/10)
Durability: Demi-godlike (11/14)
Agility: Normal (2/7)
Reflexes: Athlete (3/7)
Fighting Skills: good hand-to-hand combatant
Special Skills/Abilities: extensive knowledge of
physics
Superhuman physical powers: Superhuman strength,
stamina, and durability
Superhuman Mental Powers: None
Special Limitations: When transformed into Bruce
Banner, all stats except Intelligence revert to normal
Source of Superhuman Powers: Exposure to gamma
radiation
Personal Weaponry: None
Origin: Robert Bruce Banner was a thin, bespectacled nuclear physicist who worked on a government nuclear research facility in New Mexico. Having designed and overseen the construction of a nuclear weapon that had a high gamma radiation output, Banner was among those present in the instrumentation bunker of the test site of the bomb's first above-ground detonation. Observing that a civilian had breached security and entered the restricted test area, Banner told his partner Igor Starsky to delay the countdown while he tried to get the civilian to safety. Starsky, secretly an enemy agent, did nothing, confident that Banner would die in the explosion and the project would come to a halt. Reaching the civilian, a teenager named Rick Jones, Banner threw him into a protective trench. Before Banner could get himself to safety, the gamma bomb detonated, irradiating its inventor with highly charged, radioactive particles. The radiation had a mutagenic effect on Banner's entire cellular structure, causing him to frequently transform into the vastly powerful, green-skinned superhuman named by the military present at the test site, "The Hulk."
Significant Issues:
NOTE: I'm not going to list every appearance of the Hulk, that would be a website unto itself, instead these are the appearances where he has most likely met Thor.
