Logo Study: THE HULK Part 1

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Stan Lee, the co-creator of THE HULK in 1962 with Jack Kirby, describes him as a combination of two previous literary monsters: Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and Frankenstein's monster from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." It's a clever idea: an ordinary man who, due to a radiation accident, transforms into a huge, muscular, raging brute whenever he's under emotional strain, and often against his own will. Perhaps the most ...