sulldog111

Not a huge fan, she's okay though. It all depends on how they use the character. As for the 1st appearance stuff, it drives me crazy. Her 1st Appearance is the variant cover of #14. Great cover also! But, someone has pushed the 1st Appearance as #16. Same as Ronin. His 1st Appearance is on the cover of New Avengers #1 variant, then again he appeared in full on New Avengers #4 variant, but his "1st" appearance is #11.... It sometimes is nonsensical how they are viewed. To me, a full page splash/cover is not a cameo. Period. The character is prominently and proudly displayed. A cameo is Amazing Spider-man #344 or Superman' Jimmy Olsen #134 (the biggest joke of all as I could give a about Darkseids shadowed image in a monitor in one small panel) but others got their money invested and they will push those books until the end.

I think the character is great also. I can't wait to see him on the screen. He should look fantastic! I've collected all of these variant covers (these images are not mine) as well and done the research on these a long time ago. It is amazing to me that people still do not know the print runs or which are the hard to find variants out of all these. It's sad that people take for gospel whatever is spewed on the hype sites. Here is a quick breakdown of the info that I've learned: Hulk 1 (McGuiness Regular Cover) Print Run (120,000) Hulk 1 (Acuna Cover) (1:10) Variant Print Run (12,000) Hulk 1 (Keown Cover) Dynamic Forces Variant Print Run (4,500) Hulk 1 (Keown Cover) Dynamic Forces Variant Signed Print Run (1,500) Hulk 1 (Turner Cover) Print Run ( I'm not sure, but thought it was 10,000) Hulk 1 (McGuiness Cover) Atomic Comics Variant (came out at a later date than the initial issue)(And if you're questioning this, please ponder why Marvel would allow a store variant the same cover dress as their 1:50 incentive variant) Print Run (Not sure) Hulk 1 (McGuiness) Retailer Incentive Variant (1:50) Print Run (2,400) Hulk 1 (Blank Cover) Hero Initiative Variant Print Run (100) (each copy sketched by a different artist) Hulk 1 (Blank Cover) (Given Away w/out any sketch) Print Run (50-100) And there is a 2nd Print copy out there that I care nothing about with all the other great variants out there. I am always amazed when checking the prices on Ebay and seeing the confusion and disrespect of some of these variants. The Keown cover is spectacular and is 20x as rare as the regular cover and doesn't command the money that the regular cover does. The 1:50 is a VERY low print run no matter how you slice it for mainstream book with 2,500 copies or less and is the best cover of the bunch without the ugly Atomic Comics badge up top. The Atomic Comics variant always gets confused with the 1:50, but was done at a later date even though it hasn't been denoted. The Hulk Hero Initiative variants are incredibly hard to find with only 200 copies out there and are priced as such with asking priced in excess of $800-900. Love to hear any other thoughts and opinions on these books. And if anyone can clarify the print runs of the books that I'm not sure of. Thanks.