Hulk 197 club 0

[joeypost]

Figured...what the heck. Classic cover with Wrightsons only cover art in the Hulk run. Anything else that others find cool about the book? Please share. 

[djpinkpanther67]

Nice thread Joey!

 Here’s my former copy. Still waiting on finding a keeper.

I always wondered how Bruce found replacement purple pants every time he transformed. 

[namisgr]

Bought off the rack:

[Ken Aldred]

One of the better Len Wein stories from the period, if not quite up to the standard of Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing issues.

A two part story.

And, a fantastic Wrightson cover.

I don’t have a copy anymore. 

[Get Marwood & I]

8 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

One of the better Len Wein stories from the period, if not quite up to the standard of Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing issues.

A two part story.

And, a fantastic Wrightson cover.

I don’t have a copy anymore. 

This is one of those books I never got around to reading Ken and I always found the cover to be weird. Just out of interest, what did The Collector collect? Apart from cloaks with massive open cowls that is.

 

It's not Charlton pence copies is it? 

[Get Marwood & I]

2 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

This is one of those books I never got around to reading Ken and I always found the cover to be weird. Just out of interest, what did The Collector collect? Apart from cloaks with massive open cowls that is.

 

It's not Charlton pence copies is it? 

Come to think of it, didn't The Schemer always wear a cloak with a massive open cowl? You don't think he went to the same cloak shop as The Collector do you? 

[Ken Aldred]

11 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

This is one of those books I never got around to reading Ken and I always found the cover to be weird. Just out of interest

Wein seemed to be trying to emulate Gerber’s style on Man-Thing rather than the more Gothic tone of his Swamp Thing issues, which was fair enough.

Generally, not one of my favourite writers for Hulk, and a character I didn’t get into until the more psychological approach starting in the 80s.

Edited September 22, 2019 by Ken Aldred

[porcupine48]

22 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Come to think of it, didn't The Schemer always wear a cloak with a massive open cowl? You don't think he went to the same cloak shop as The Collector do you? 

I was born with a caul,wish ma had let me keep it.I could have been Super Villain Jimmers! 

A little ON topic...As I was just reading a Heap story last night it just got me wondering,did Bernie ever create any Heap pictures?

[Readcomix]

Isn't the Hulk #197 cover the only time Wrightson drew the Man-Thing?

[Get Marwood & I]

Here's my (brother's) old copy. Long gone now:

 

As I said, I always found the cover a little weird as a young whipper snapper, probably because it was so different to it's predecessors. But looking at it now with older eyes I can see a fine composition there. It's a great use of space isn't it - the cover is full. No space unused. That fellow on the back cover got on your nerves after a while though didn't he. I wonder what happened to him. 

[Ken Aldred]

3 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

That fellow on the back cover got on your nerves after a while though didn't he. I wonder what happened to him. 

He had a long and successful career selling Grit, which allowed him to retire in the Bahamas.

Edited September 23, 2019 by Ken Aldred

[Ken Aldred]

3 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

As I said, I always found the cover a little weird as a young whipper snapper, probably because it was so different to it's predecessors. But looking at it now with older eyes I can see a fine composition there. It's a great use of space isn't it - the cover is full. No space unused.

I was familiar with Wrightson's work very early on in collecting.  I always thought he was quite superb; composition, graphic storytelling, fantastic fusion of Ingels' and Frazetta's art styles.

[Ken Aldred]

14 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Just out of interest, what did The Collector collect?

He started out collecting specimens of alien species, but eventually it was any shiny trinket, so to speak, that looked valuable and important.

You see that in the first GOTG film, where he has captive lifeforms, but also obsesses about acquiring Infinity gems.

Edited September 23, 2019 by Ken Aldred

[porcupine48]

The heap CANNOT be ignored 

[KirbyJack]

Is that Margery from Fraggle Rock?

[KirbyJack]

I loved Hulk 197 when I read it as a kid. One of the VERY few Hulks I retained thru the most recent purge.

[porcupine48]

11 minutes ago, KirbyJack said:

I loved Hulk 197 when I read it as a kid. One of the VERY few Hulks I retained thru the most recent purge.

109 too? 

[KirbyJack]

1 minute ago, porcupine48 said:

109 too? 

Possibly. I love the cover; a stand out to me, but I don’t remember if I kept my copy. If it was high grade, then most likely I sold it.

[Ken Aldred]

Don’t forget this character...

[porcupine48]

34 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

Don’t forget this character...

I just reread that last week-Mmle Porcupine found me a shoebox of comics and this issue was in it.I'd bought it off the stands,and I still dislike(below)incarnation intensely.Had to dig out above and cleanse my palate.Glob bites the soggy swamp dust below.