Postcrossing Thursday!

Is he Man or Monster...

Only one postcard for this week, but this one is one of my favourite – which surprised even me. Cause it’s not a landscape, or a historical site or legendary battle field; it is the first issue of The Incredile Hulk.

When I was a kid I used to read Archie comics :blush:, seriously. Jughead was my favourite, and secretly I wanted to be Betty although I was probably more of an Ethel. And before Archie I read Casper, Wendy, Little Lotta, Little Audrey – you know, Harvey comics. So I was never into Marvel comics and vaguely knew of some of the characters.

Then Xmen (animated series) came to tv ; I became a Wolverine fangirl *sigh* but still didn’t read the comics.  But I knew of a lot of the characters and later on the feature films hooked a whole bunch of new fans.

But even in my ignorance, I knew that Hulk is supposed to be green – so what gives with the grey tones one on the postcard? Can you say thank you google.

Id whoops

The Wiki says: “In his debut, the Hulk was grey because Lee wanted a color that did not suggest any particular ethnic group. Colorist Stan Goldberg, however, had problems with the grey coloring, resulting in different shades of grey, and even green, in the issue. After seeing the first published issue, Lee chose to change the skin color to green. Green was used in retellings of the origin, with even reprints of the original story being recolored for the next two decades, until The Incredible Hulk vol. 2, #302 (Dec. 1984) reintroduced the grey Hulk in flashbacks set close to the origin story. Since then, reprints of the first issue have displayed the original grey coloring, with the fictional canon specifying that the Hulk’s skin had initially been grey.” Incredible Hulk 1, May 1962

So now you know.

On this site there is an updated version of the cover. Which do you prefer? I;m a sucker for pretty things, so I like the new one 😉

Off on a tangent: Lunameower (Shannon) confuddled the ID# a bit – so I used Postcrossing’s Ask for Help section. A day later I had the correct Id! Great job guys, thank you.

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