Tyrone Cash

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Tyrone Cash
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Tyrone Cash as depicted in Ultimate Avengers #10 (June 2010). Art by Leinil Francis Yu, Gerry Alanguilan, and Dave McCaig.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Ultimate Comics: Avengers Vol. 2 #7 (April 2010)
Created by Mark Millar
Leinil Francis Yu
In-story information
Alter egoLeonard Williams
SpeciesHuman gamma-mutate
Team affiliations Ultimate Avengers
Captain Britain Corps [ citation needed ]
Excalibur [ citation needed ]
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Notable aliasesThe First Hulk
Abilities

Tyrone Cash is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted in the Ultimate Marvel universe, where he is a member of The Ultimates and is described as being the first Hulk prior to Bruce Banner. [1]

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Publication history

Tyrone Cash first appeared in Ultimate Comics: Avengers Vol. 2 #7 and was created by Mark Millar and Leinil Francis Yu.

Fictional character biography

Leonard Williams was a professor at Cambridge University who worked with a young Bruce Banner to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum, becoming a mentor to him. Williams disappears in an unexplained occurrence in which several people are killed, and comes to be considered a missing person. [2]

Unbeknownst to the public, Williams survived, became the first Hulk, and assumed the identity of Tyrone Cash, killing numerous people throughout Africa and Asia before becoming a gangster in South America. During this time, S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors him and eventually recruits him into the Ultimates. [1] [3]

S.H.I.E.L.D. later discovers that Cash has been selling Super-Soldiers on the black market. Blade defeats and depowers him before bringing him to the Helicarrier, where Nick Fury kills him. [4] [5]

Powers and abilities

Using a pill that contains a perfected version of his Hulk Serum, Tyrone Cash has immense strength, stamina, durability, and speed, as well as regenerative capabilities, which are similar to those from the Hulk. Cash also has shown to be a very skilled scientist.

Other versions

An alternate universe variant of Tyrone Cash from Earth-15513 appears in Secret Wars as a member of the Thor Corps on Battleworld. [6]

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