Title : HE'S NUTHIN' BUT A TWO-FACED HULK...
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HE'S NUTHIN' BUT A TWO-FACED HULK...
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It's a wet, rainy Saturday and - STOP! Hold on a minute. It could hardly be a dry, rainy Saturday (or any other day of the week) could it? So when you think about it, qualifying a rainy day as 'wet' is a bit redundant. However, sentences need rhythm, and 'It' s a rainy Saturday' lacks a beat to my ears (and eyes). So as you were then.
It's a wet, rainy Saturday and I'm in the comfy confines of my back room (once used as my 'studio'), desperately trying to think of something worth writing about. Or at least something that you Crivs think might be worth reading, which may or may not be the same thing. What should it be - comics, toys, TV shows, personal nostalgia - or something else entirely? My repertoire is somewhat limited by my own interests, and on the few occasions when I've touched on subjects that lie beyond those perimeters, then I'm usually out of my comfort zone.
So what'll it be? 48 years ago, October the 3rd was a Tuesday. I couldn't say with any certainty whether it likewise rained back then, but my general impression of that whole week was that it was mild and sunny. Well, it had been the previous Saturday (September 30th), and was again the following Friday (6th), and if it ever rained in between, I have no memory of it. But that doesn't solve the problem of what I should write about, does it?
Tell you what then. I'll cop out by showing you a pretty picture, which sits at the top of this post. However, as I type these very words, I haven't yet inserted the image into the designated space. That's the thing about blog posts; the reader gets to see each post after it's composed and put together, but the writer (that'll be me then) doesn't necessarily always construct it in the same order or sequence that the reader finally sees it. But enough waffle!
Recently, someone offered to give me a comic which I'd mentioned I was thinking of acquiring. (Once thought I still had it, turns out I didn't.) I haven't yet got my grubby mitts on it, but that's hardly a drawback given my creative genius. (Don't splutter - tongue in cheek.) I've borrowed the image from ebay and will replace it when my generously-gifted copy turns up. First, a little background about it.
Back when this image was first seen, it was in a comics ad for The Incredible Hulk King-Size Special #1. In the half-page ad, Jim Steranko's Hulk face remained unchanged, though when the Special was published, a Marie Severin-drawn Hulk face had replaced it. We Brits were lucky, because when the image turned up on the cover of MWOM #129 in 1975, Steranko's original Hulk fizzog was intact. It was also used as a pin-up inside an issue of MWOM (I think) at some stage, but I no longer recall whether it predated the UK cover appearance or came after.
Not that it matters. Feast your eyes! Oh, and in case you were wondering, below is how it appeared on the actual published Hulk Special. Why'd they change it? Your guess is as good as mine. (And it's not often I say that.) Perhaps Stan just wanted the Hulk to look the same on the cover as in the interior story, which Marie illustrated.
Y'know, someone once said that they could see I wasn't two-faced. When I asked how they knew, they pointed at my kipper and answered "Because you wouldn't be wearing that one if you were!" Can't win, eh?
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