Adaptations of the Hulk in other media | |
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Created by | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
Original source | Comics published by Marvel Comics |
First appearance | The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962) |
Print publications | |
Novel(s) | The Incredible Hulk: Stalker From the Stars (1978) The Incredible Hulk: Cry of the Beast (1979) |
Films and television | |
Film(s) | Hulk (2003) The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
Television show(s) | The Marvel Super Heroes (1966) The Incredible Hulk (1978–82) The Incredible Hulk (1982–83) The Incredible Hulk (1996–97) Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. (2013–2015) She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) |
Games | |
Video game(s) | The Incredible Hulk (1994) The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga (1996) The Incredible Hulk (2003) Hulk (2003) The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (2005) The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
Since the 1960s, the Marvel Comics superhero the Hulk has appeared in many types of various media other than the comics, such as animated and live-action TV series, films, books, video games, comic strips, and stage shows.
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Starting with the Pop Art period and on a continuing basis since the 1960s, many comic book characters, including Hulk, have been "appropriated" by multiple visual artists and incorporated into contemporary artwork, most notably by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Dulce Pinzon, Jeff Koons, and others. [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37]
Pocket Books published two mass market paperback solo novels starring the character, The Incredible Hulk: Stalker From the Stars in 1978 [38] and The Incredible Hulk: Cry of the Beast in 1979. [39] [40] The Hulk has appeared in the following novels:
Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Release Date | Notes |
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The Incredible Hulk: Stalker From the Stars | Len Wein Marv Wolfman Joseph Silva | Pocket Books | 0671820842 / 9780671820848 | October 1978 | Pocket Books series (1978–1979) #2 |
The Incredible Hulk: Cry of the Beast | Richard S. Meyers | Pocket Books | 0671820850 / 9780671820855 | March 1979 | Pocket Books series (1978–1979) #3 |
The Marvel Superheroes | Len Wein Marv Wolfman (editors) | Pocket Books | 0671820915 / 9780671820916 | August 1979 | Pocket Books series (1978–1979) #9; short story collection; includes stories featuring the Avengers, Daredevil, the X-Men, and the Hulk |
The Hulk and Spider-Man: Murdermoon | Paul Kupperberg | Pocket Books | 067182094X / 9780671820947 | October 1979 | Pocket Books series (1978–1979) #11 |
The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast | Peter David | Putnam/BPMC (hardback) Berkley Boulevard/BPMC (paperback) | 0756759676 / 9780756759674 (hardback) 1572971355 / 9781572971356 (paperback) | July 1995 (hardback) July 1996 (paperback) | |
Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk: Doom's Day Book One: Rampage | Danny Fingeroth Eric Fein | Berkley Boulevard/BPMC | 1572971649 / 9781572971646 | September 1996 | First in Doom's Day trilogy; is followed by Spider-Man and Iron Man: Doom's Day Book Two: Sabotage |
The Incredible Hulk: Abominations | Jason Henderson | Berkley Boulevard/BPMC | 1572972734 / 9781572972735 | July 1997 | |
The Ultimate Hulk | Stan Lee Peter David (editors) | Berkley Boulevard/BPMC | 0425165132 / 9780425165133 | October 1998 | Short story collection |
Hulk | Peter David | Del Rey Books | 0345459679 / 9780345459671 | April 2003 | Novelization of the 2003 Hulk movie |
The Incredible Hulk | Peter David | Del Rey Books | 0345506995 / 978-0345506993 | May 2008 | Novelization of the 2008 The Incredible Hulk movie |
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