Hulk Poster #51 Red Hulk vs A-Bomb Rulk Ed McGuinness

Description

Over the long publication history of the Hulk’s adventures, many recurring characters have featured prominently, including his sidekick Rick Jones, love interest and former wife Betty Ross and her father, the often adversarial General “Thunderbolt” Ross. Recently each of these characters have received powers, Rick becoming A-Bomb, Betty becoming Red She-Hulk and Thunderbolt Ross becoming Red Hulk. Writer Jeph Loeb states “The Red Hulk is the kind of Hulk we haven’t seen before — a thinking, calculating, brutal weapon-toting kind of Hulk.” To further distance the character away from the original: “Everything the Green Hulk isn’t, the Red Hulk is.” The character has abilities almost identical to those of the current Hulk. The character can also emit heat at will from his eyes during non-enraged periods, and can augment power levels by absorbing various types of energy, such as gamma radiation (in one instance causing the Hulk to revert to alter ego Bruce Banner) and the Power Cosmic. When infected with Cable’s techno-organic virus during the “X-Sanction” storyline, he was able to control this heat to burn the virus out of his system. Red Hulk was created through a combination of gamma radiation and cosmic rays. The satellites used to revert the Hulk to human form at the end of “World War Hulk” were used to power the device used to turn Ross into the Red Hulk. Unlike the green Hulk, the Red Hulk does not revert to human form when rendered unconscious, and his blood is a fluorescent yellow instead of green, remaining that color even in human form. Unlike the green Hulk, who gets stronger as his rage increases, Red Hulk’s body temperature rises with his anger. After being held captive and put under extreme experiments by the Intelligencia, Rick Jones has gained the ability to turn into a creature resembling the Abomination, granting him vast superhuman strength and durability (even the Red Hulk only caused superficial damage), but stunting his speech patterns in a similar manner to the classic Hulk persona. His scales can change color to blend in with his surroundings. Following experimentation on him by MODOK, Rick’s human persona became dominant, but at the price of trapping him in A-Bomb form. Bruce speculates in a later storyline that this is actually a deliberate, albeit subconscious, action on Rick’s part stemming from his fear of allowing others to come to harm because he may be unable to help them prompting him to remain A-Bomb so that he can always be ready to help. Due to the Hulk’s wish, Rick can now transform at will with his mind in control.

Near mint condition.