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Comic book giant is standing on others' shoulders.
From: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
Date: 20030613
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Byline: William Heisel
The Incredible Hulk first hit comic book stands in 1962, but the character's source material is even older. Here are a few of his influences.
Frankenstein's monster: Not so much the 1818 book by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley but more the 1931 film starring Boris Karloff. The Hulk was initially part of a spate of popular horror comics _ not super hero comics. And he looked very much like Karloff's monster: lumbering, stiff-limbed with a square head and bad bowl-cut. He has no costume, save for his green skin. (In the first comic, his skin was gray.)
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