{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~download ¿Fin o principio by Peter David Hulk: ¿Fin o principio? by Peter David. Real Name : Igor Drenkov. Identity/Class : Normal Human. Occupation : Former Soviet spy. Group Membership : None. Affiliations : Gargoyle (Yuri Topolov), Presence. Enemies : Bruce Banner/Hulk, Pantheon, Rick Jones, (Crimson Dynamo (Boris Vadim), Darkstar (Sasha Roerich), (Anton), Ursa Major) Known Relatives : None. Aliases : Igor Sklar, Igor Starsky. Base of Operations : Formerly Soviet Union, formerly the Gamma Base, formerly prison, now unrevealed. First Appearance : Incredible Hulk I#1 (May, 1962) Powers/Abilities : While he has no real powers, Igor is an expert on gamma radiation and is trained in espionage. History : At some point, Igor was sent by the Soviet Union as a spy to obtain information on the gamma bomb designed by Bruce Banner. (Incredible Hulk I#1) - Igor stood alongside Bruce Banner and General Ross during the test of the gamma bomb, which created the Hulk. Prior to the test of the bomb, Igor told Bruce that he didn't want him to test the bomb since he never showed Igor his notes for him to check. Igor got quite confrontational with Bruce, but Bruce would not tell him the secret of the gamma bomb. A short while later, Bruce Banner saw a kid (Rick Jones) driving on the testing range only seconds before the bomb was to be detonated. He instructed Igor to stop the countdown while he went to get the kid to safety. Igor thought about it, and decided that this would be his way to get rid of Bruce Banner once and for all. Igor let the count continue, the bomb was detonated, and Bruce was bathed in gamma rays and was transformed into the Hulk. Igor wasted no time, and as soon as he thought that Bruce Banner was dead, he went to Bruce's cottage and started rummaging through everything, searching for the gamma ray formula. Igor then saw the Hulk and shot him. Hulk simply smashed Igor's gun and threw him. Soldiers soon entered, after Hulk had changed back into Bruce, and found Igor. They assumed (quite unprofessionally) that Igor was in league with Hulk, and they took him to a hospital. Igor sat in a cell and sent a report of the Hulk's existence to the Gargoyle back in the Soviet Union, using a miniature transistor short-wave that he had on his thumbnail. (bts)- Igor apparently got out of prison and left the country. (Incredible Hulk II#393) - Igor woke up to find himself somehow in the inactive Gamma Base. Igor was very confused, and became even more confused when he heard Bruce Banner giving him orders about the gamma bomb again. Igor thought that maybe he was in a nightmare, or maybe he was dead. Igor heard Bruce order him to stop the countdown again, and Bruce went and ran onto the field to save the kid, just as he did so many years ago. Igor, thinking that he still needed to complete his mission, let the bomb go off again. He then went to Banner's lab to search for the papers, only to have the Hulk barge in. The Hulk, in his merged incarnation, had set up Igor, and tricked him into believing it was all happening again on the anniversary of the actual bomb that made the Hulk, to see if he would let the bomb go off again. Hulk dropped the act, and decided to extract vengeance on Igor for all the pain that he had gone through thanks to Igor not stopping the bomb. After being sidetracked by the People's Protectorate, Hulk caught Igor and took him to the place where the gamma bomb was detonated. Igor then began to laugh, and said that he was guilty for creating a creature of destruction, but also took credit for all the things the Hulk has done over the years on the side of good. Igor then said that he dreamed the same dream every night, and that he thinks he is dead, since he has suffered so much and no one can suffer that much and survive. Igor went insane. (Hulk: Winter Guard#1 (fb) - BTS) - The Presence took former spy Igor Drenkov with him and mutated him into a gamma-powered protoplasmic monstrosity, to investigate his daughter's seeming return from the dead. They were attacked by the Winter Guard (Crimson Dynamo (Vadim), Darkstar (Sasha Roerich), Red Guardian (Anton), Ursa Major). (Hulk: Winter Guard#1) - The Winter Guard fought Drenkov while Presence found out that Roerich wasn't actually his daughter. Drenkov devoured Crimson Dynamo (Vadim), but when Red Guardian knocked Presence out long enough for Darkstar to attack Drenkov, she overstrained her powers to devour Drenkov bit by bit and sent him into the Dark Matter Dimension. Comments : Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Very, very few people have ever heard of this guy, but he is one of the most important characters in history. If it weren't for him, there would be no Hulk, who is a legend (and one of my favorite characters ever). If there were no Hulk, the Avengers would have no reason to form, at least at that time. Who knows what else would have gone differently. On top of that, he was the first person that Hulk manhandled. Igor first appeared in May 1962, and then had an absence of 30 years before appearing again in May 1992. Will we ever see him again? Who knows? If this trend continues, then he will appear again in the year 2022. Incredible Hulk Annual 1999 retells Incredible Hulk I#1, as if Igor were actually a Skrull. wrote this story, much like he did Spider- Man: Chapter One, altering continuity as he went. It told an interesting story, and might fit in ok if not for Hulk II#393. I'm considering the Hulk Annual as an out-of-continuity or alternate reality tale. I believe that the 1999 Annual was retconned into being only a "comic book version" of the "real" Hulk's origin by Peter David in Captain Marvel V#2, when Rick Jones reads it in a comic book and laughs. Igor's last name was first given in Incredible Hulk I#145; he was misidentified as "Igor Starsky" in the Hulk entry for Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#5. --Continental Op. CLARIFICATIONS : Igor Drenkov has no connection to: IGOR , the baboon of the Red Ghost's Super-Apes, @ I#13 IGOR , partner of Georgi, who mutated the Rhino, @ Amazing Spider-Man I#43 Any other "Igor" characters. images: (without ads) Incredible Hulk I#1, p15, pan1 (Igor Drenkov main image) Hulk: Winter Guard#1, p5, pan1 (mutated) Appearances: Incredible Hulk I#1 (May, 1962) - Stan Lee (writer/editor), Jack Kirby (pencils), Paul Reinman (editor) Incredible Hulk II#393 (May, 1992) - Peter David (Writer), Dale Keown (artist), Bobbie Chase (editor) Hulk: Winter Guard#1 (February, 2010) - David Gallaher (writer), (artist), Jordan D. White (editor) Peter David on The Incredible Hulk -- Guest Essay. On Dec. 30, Peter David, the 56-year-old novelist and comic book writer, was on holiday when he suffered a stroke, a crisis he reported himself with a blog posting that contains the most chilling passages of his vivid career: “ We were on vacation in Florida when I lost control of the right side of my body. I cannot see properly and I cannot move my right arm or leg.” Earlier in December, David had been asked by EW to write a guest essay about the 50th anniversary of the Hulk, a character that David knows better than anyone — his 12-year stint scripting the monthly series The Incredible Hulk is rare in its duration and remarkable in its depth and surprise. David has shaped other universes (he’s filled a shelf with his Star Trek novels and written scripts for Babylon 5 as well as ActiVision’s big Spider-Man: Edge of Time video game) but his green days were special. David is now in physical therapy and monster bills will be mounting in the weeks and months ahead; his family and close friends say this would be an especially good moment to add a David book to your collection. Check out David’s blog below. It was 1986 and Bob Harras, the editor of The Incredible Hulk for Marvel Comics, was desperate. No one wanted to write the book. At least that’s what he told me when he asked me if I’d be interested in taking on the assignment. At that point in time, I had no other writing jobs. I was Marvel’s direct sales manager, in charge of getting comic books to retailers and distributors so they could sell them. I had some writing experience as the scripter for a Spider-Man title for about five minutes (well, a year) until I was fired off the book. The Spidey editor was trying to save his job, you see, and having some nobody from sales writing Marvel’s flagship character was Simply Not Done. So I was astounded when Bob walked into my sales office and pitched my writing the Hulk. My immediate reaction was a severe lack of interest. I was still feeling bruised from being tossed off Spider-Man despite the critical acclaim my brief run had garnered. Bob assured me, however, that this was a completely different case. Everyone paid attention to Spider-Man. No one gave a damn about the Hulk. My writing the latter title would not send up any interoffice flares. Also, since I hadn’t actually been reading the title (not making me much different from most Marvel fans), I had no idea what the then-current status quo was. You might figure that the Hulk was Bruce Banner, the atomic scientist who inadvertently unleashed a monster because he was standing too near the explosion of a gamma bomb (whatever that was). But you’d be wrong: The Hulk was now Rick Jones, the teenager whom Bruce had been trying to save from the gamma bomb. Meanwhile Bruce Banner was still a Hulk, but he was gray and shifted only at night. And Bob told me absolutely that I could go in any direction with whatever aspect of the Hulk I wanted. He could be the green Rick Jones, the gray Banner. Could I turn Thunderbolt Ross, the Hulk-obsessed army general, into a new Hulk? “Sure!” said Bob. (Twenty-plus years later, Marvel did exactly that, but Bob was working for DC Comics by that point, so I doubt they got it from me.) I thought about it overnight and realized I only had about half a dozen or so stories that I could come up with. As far as long-term went, I had no clue as to what to do with the Hulk. But I figured, What the hell? No one else was offering me any writing assignments. Although much of my education had been in writing (I had a B.A. in Journalism from NYC), my job career had taken me in a different direction, and I was more or less satisfied with the day job I was doing. So if once a month I wrote The Incredible Hulk on the side for sixth months or so, what was the harm? That’s why it breaks me up that over the past few years, Marvel has been putting out a series of trade paperback collections of my twelve years on the book. It’s part of a line called Marvel Visionaries. Hear that, kids? I was a visionary. A visionary who had absolutely no clue what he was doing from one issue to the next. I made quick work of Rick Jones as the Hulk, restoring him in short order back to his proper place as a mere normal human. (That didn’t last as a few years ago he was transformed into a superhero called A-Bomb. But I did what I could at the time. ) I then went on to focus on Bruce Banner as the Hulk, albeit gray and physically weaker than his fairly invincible green counterpart. He was also perfectly articulate, as opposed to the “Hulk smash!” version that had been his persona for decades. This decision was greeted with mixed reactions from the fans, most of whom wanted him restored to his more primitive incarnation. I ignored them and did what I wanted, sure that when someone else took over the book within a few months, they would go off and do whatever they wanted. Interestingly enough, that didn’t happen. My first year on the Hulk flew by as I worked with an up and coming young artist named Todd McFarlane. As years continued years to roll by, I worked with a series of progressively entertaining pencilers, and as I did so, an overall direction for the character suggested itself to me. For years, Bruce Banner spent his time trying to cure himself of being the Hulk and it never worked for long. I realized during my reading on psychology that Bruce displayed all the symptoms of what was then called Multiple Personality Disorder, even when he was younger. The realization suggested that even if he’d never been struck by a gamma bomb, he’d still have serious mental issues. And I thought, “He’s never actually sought psychological counseling, even though we had a psychiatrist, Dr. Leonard Samson, as a recurring character in the book. What if the stories lead to him having a massive mental breakdown, and Doc Samson manages through hypnotic counseling to merge all of the fractured pieces of Bruce Banner’s personality? What we’d have then is Bruce Banner the way he would and should have been, but he’s also huge and green because you can’t really rid him of that.” And that’s what I did, with artist Dale Keown creating the Merged Hulk that was his dominant personality for much of the remainder of my stay on the series. I actually didn’t know I was going to be leaving The Incredible Hulk when I did go. What happened was that my editor at the time, Bobbie Chase (also now at DC, go figure) had suggested — when we were kicking around future plot directions — that I kill off the Hulk’s wife, Betty Banner. Betty had always been my wife’s favorite character and because of that I’d always sworn nothing bad would happen to her. But then my wife left me so that she could go off and do other things like, I dunno, not be married to me. On that basis, Betty’s safety measure was gone. When Bobbie suggested we plug her, I said, “Sure, why not?” So I killed her off. This got Marvel all excited. See, when I’d started on the book and, over years, doubled sales on it, it caused people to suddenly start paying attention. With the death of Betty, this prompted Marvel to have a Brilliant Idea. Mourning the loss of his wife, the Hulk would now go dead silent, stop talking to anyone, and run around the Marvel universe smashing everything in sight. When I was told the new plan, I objected. I told them it was out of character with the psychologically complex giant I’d created over the years. I said I wouldn’t write that. And the editorial higher-ups (none of whom still work for the company) said that I shouldn’t hesitate to avoid having the door hit me on the way out. And that was that. After twelve years, I was gone. Marvel then brought on a series of writers to produce the exact stories that Marvel wanted for the Hulk and, as I predicted, sales tanked. It wasn’t until Marvel brought on British writer Paul Jenkins (who basically started writing the same types of stories that I’d been doing) that sales turned around. So that was my life with the Hulk. Out of fifty years of his existence, I took up twelve straight years (plus annuals and such) covering the concerns and chaos that the Hulk had to face daily. If I’d known that I’d be leaving the book the issue afterward, I’d never have killed off Betty (although since then she was brought back to life and is now the red She-Hulk, so that made a lot of difference.) I had up periods and down periods. Times where I had the book fully under control and times where I was roughing it and had no clue what I was doing. In retrospect, if I had to draw one conclusion from my time on the series, it was this: Hunh. Nope. I still got nothin’. The Hulk bounced around in my brain for over a decade, and I in his, and yet in the final analysis I really can’t think of any life lesson that we’ve contributed to each other. I had Betty pregnant for a while and then Marvel editorial insisted that she lose the baby because as far as they were concerned, “The Hulk will never have kids.” Nowadays he’s got like three kids, so what did they know? What did any of us know? The Hulk’s gonna do his own thing, and that’s pretty much that. Because when you’re the Hulk, that’s all you really have to worry about. Grey Hulk/Joe Fixit. Originally, Stan Lee wanted the Hulk to be grey, but due to ink problems, the Hulk's color turned to green. This was explained by saying that the Grey Hulk was the original Hulk to appear when Banner first got hit by the Gamma Bomb. However, due to Banner's repeated use of gamma radiation projectors, the much better known/more common Hulk Green Hulk/Savage Hulk emerged. His rare appearances are also explained by saying that the Grey Hulk persona and the Green Hulk persona are battling in Bruce Banner's sub- conscious. Due to his superior strength, Green Hulk/Savage Hulk, won most of the time thus showing the Savage Hulk persona more often. Peter David's run altered Banner's pre-Hulk characterization and the nature of the relationship between Banner and the Hulk. David returned to the Stern and Mantlo abuse storyline, expanding the damage caused, and depicting Banner as suffering dissociative identity disorder (DID). David's stories showed that Banner had serious mental problems long before he became the Hulk. David revamped the personality significantly, giving the Grey Hulk the alias " Joe Fixit ", and setting him up as a morally ambiguous Las Vegas enforcer and tough guy.​ This incarnation represents the personality that can do all the not so nice things that Bruce was too unsure of to do himself. Tricky, manipulative, shows little thought of others, make up some of his traits. This incarnation can lift approximately 75 tons. This incarnation does possess the "madder he gets, the stronger he gets" ability, but at a much slower rate, since this incarnation has some level of intelligence and reasoning and would not "lose control" as easy as the Savage Hulk incarnation. Find Out What Was Cut from The Incredible Hulk. Wondering just what you're missing in the now-mythical 70 minutes of cut footage from The Incredible Hulk ? Turns out that you don't have to wait for the DVD release to find out, just crack open a copy of the movie's tie-in novel by longtime Hulk comic writer Peter David. Or, alternatively, let someone else do so and then read the summary of missing scenes that they post online. We're helping you with that latter option under the jump. Comic site 4thLetter took the time to compare the finished version of Marvel's smashfest with David's novelization and came away surprisingly relieved that someone had taken the scissors to Ed Norton's vision: With Incredible Hulk, the good outweighed the bad in terms of cuts. God, did it ever. Yes, there was definitely some stuff that should have stayed in there. No doubt. It's just that a lot of scenes that got ousted had the potential to be really bad. Really bad. I'm talking Superman's cellophane S projectile bad. I'm talking Matt Murdock fighting Elektra at the playground bad. I'm talking the entirety of Rise of the Silver Surfer bad. It's cool that I count that movie as one long, horrible scene, right? I really am the only person who kind of enjoyed FF2 , aren't I. Turns out that we're not missing a lot in the extra scenes, although there's a couple of awesome Easter Eggs in there for fans of the comic (An Amadeus Cho cameo? Who would've seen that coming?), but that one scene that everyone already knows about in the Arctic. Here it is: The opening scene, which appears to be the kind of thing to take place before the credits, has a truck driving through the arctic. Bruce Banner asks the driver to stop when they're in the middle of nowhere. Then he gets out and walks away. The driver is confused, but drives off anyway. Banner walks through the blizzard, pulls out a pistol and tries to off himself. His arm won't let him and he unwillingly pulls the gun away from his head and fires it empty. Then he falls to the ground, hoping to die from the cold, but transforms into the Hulk instead. As the Hulk, he smashes the ground and breaks it into icebergs. This was probably going to be where the hyped appearance was going to take place. I suppose that without in the cards, they would just have Hulk be the one to smash up the arctic and release his frozen body into the water. From what I understand, a version of this scene is in the videogame. Whoever decided to cut this scene is a total pussy. Wait, was that going to be the fabled Captain America cameo. Guess we'll just have to wait for the DVD to find out after all. Marvel releases trailer for Maestro: War and Pax. Marvel Comics has released a trailer for the publisher's upcoming post-apocalyptic limited series Maestro: War and Pax, which follows the evil, super-intelligent version of the Hulk's conquest in a future world. The limited series, by Peter David and Javier Pina, follows up David's previous Maestro limited series which began telling the tale of Maestro's origin. "The Maestro has determined that life must go on in the world he's living in, and that he should be the center of government," states David. "He's consolidating his rule. He truly believes he's doing the right thing. "After all, he's seen what mankind inevitably does if left to its own devices. He thinks that free will has proven to be a noble experiment but ultimately didn't work out," David continues. "So now it's time to try something new, and he's what's new." "He's setting up a world where he rules over everything, and to him it's going to be a world of peace and contentment. And if some people's noses are out of joint over it, then they should keep it to themselves." Here's the trailer: Original story follows. Following up the current Maestro limited series, writer Peter David will continue the story of the Hulk's ascent to becoming the evil super-genius villain, who debuted in David's '90s storyline 'Future Imperfect,' in January 2021 with a new limited series titled Maestro: War and Pax drawn by Javier Pena. The new limited series debuts in January, just after the current limited series' December 23 finale. As with the first Maestro limited series, War and Pax will run for five issues. "The man once known as the Hulk now answers only to the Maestro!" reads Marvel's official description of the new limited series. "After deposing Dystopia's ancient ruler, the Maestro will now set his sights even higher. With unbridled ambitions, Maestro decides it's time for the entire planet Earth to recognize him as their one true god!" it continues. "But the Maestro will soon find out that he isn't the only immortal left… and if he wants to truly dominate the planet, he'll have to face the most powerful beings in creation!" This seems to be directly setting the stage for the eventual fight between Maestro and the Avengers, told in the original 'Future Imperfect' storyline which introduced the evolved, evil Maestro. "I am thrilled that, 20 years after I created him, the Maestro still intrigues people so much that the first series garnered the sort of success that demanded a follow-up," David says in the Maestro: War and Pax series announcement. "As long as folks want to keep reading about him, I'm happy to keep giving them stories." Maestro: War and Pax #1 (of 5) is due out in January. Look for Marvel's full January 2021 solicitations right here on Newsarama later this month. Reading Maestro digitally on Marvel Unlimited? You'll be able to read the completed limited series sooner as the streaming service recently reduced its release window . The Hulk Just Stole Thanos' Darkest MCU Decision. In Maestro: War and Pax #1, Hulk finishes his transformation into a full-blown evil dictator by borrowing a twisted move from Thanos, the Mad Titan. Warning: this article contains spoilers for Maestro: War & Pax #1! Hulk is one of Marvel Comics' most brutal heroes. His limitless strength allows him to devastate opponents and easily overwhelm them. But while Hulk's methods may be questionable, he is still a hero at his core. or at least he was. But in the dark future of Maestro: War & Pax, Bruce Banner is no longer the hero the Avengers knew, becoming a dark tyrant comparable to Thanos, the Mad Titan . Bruce Banner may have once loved and cared for humanity at a point in his life, but ever since he became the Hulk it has never loved him back. In Maestro , Hulk was one of the few survivors of an extinction-level event. Mankind has killed off most of its own population through war and terror. Hulk was saved and preserved by M.O.D.O.K. to help rebuild the world because of his radiation endurance, but refused after processing the loss of his family. The world had taken everything from Hulk, so he disposed of his Bruce Banner persona and decided to take everything that was left back for himself. Mankind needs leadership and, in his eyes, he was the only person for the job. When Hercules stood in the way of his new obsession with power, the gigantic genius plotted against and successfully defeated the demi-god. He now has power and authority but like many other leaders, expansion has quickly grow to encompass Hulk's every thought. The new Maestro: War & Pax from Peter David, Javier Pina, and Dale Keown sees Hulk finally acting on that desire. After invading a rival colony, Hulk has all the adults killed, leaving just the children alive. Similar to Thanos' initial meeting with Gamora, the villain offers to take the children under his wing, explaining that in challenging the Maestro, their parents killed themselves, but there can still be a place for the younger generation. As both the comics and MCU have revealed, Thanos had a habit of taking children from the worlds he attacked, raising them as Children of Thanos - often the deadliest and most committed of his soldiers. Here, Maestro is taking a play from the book of one of the most villainous characters in Marvel Comics by killing the parents of the children and trying to indoctrinate them. This future Hulk has abandoned all morality and civility. He has crossed over into a new kind of evil, as he shows moments later when, rejected by the children, he allows his new robotic hounds to massacre the remaining survivors. Maestro's acts in Maestro: War & Pax #1 mark a dark new era for the hero-turned-villain. The previous Maestro series, which ran for five issues, was Hulk's transition to evil, rise to power, and transformation into the Maestro. If this issue is an indication of what Peter David has planned for the follow-up, then readers are in for a bumpy ride. The world took everything from Hulk when he tried to play nice. Now he will rule it as Maestro.