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If you pick up Incredible Hulk #1, from 1962 – which is easier than you’d think, since it’s been reprinted a bunch of times and is available digitally – you’ll be reading a classic monster comic of the era with some fairly disturbing flourishes. Bruce Banner literally screams for hours when he’s hit by the gamma bomb, and the Hulk only emerges when night falls – there’s a sequence of Bruce Banner sitting terrified in his chair as the shadows lengthen, waiting for the night to fall and his dark side to emerge. So a horror take was baked into the character to an extent. -- Al Ewing
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