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The strip sought to capitalise on the enormous popularity of television — a popularity which was seriously harming comics sales. The hope was that by bringing popular television stars into Smash!'s pages, this would make TV's growing popularity work for the comic – a not very subtle ploy to boost its circulation and sales. [citation needed]
Sal Buscema (/ b j uː ˈ s ɛ m ə / bew-SEM-ə; born Silvio Buscema, [1] Italian: [ˈsilvjo buʃˈʃɛːma], on January 26, 1936) [2] is an American comics artist, primarily for Marvel Comics, where he enjoyed a ten-year run as artist of The Incredible Hulk and an eight-year run as artist of The Spectacular Spider-Man.
Hulk Smash Avengers: Hulk Smash Avengers #1–5 2012 978-0785163053: Hulk: Season One [25] Original graphic novel 2012 978-0785163886: X-Men vs. Hulk: World War Hulk: X-Men #1–3; Hulk Team-Up #1; X-Men vs. Hulk #1; Incredible Hulk Annual #7; and material from Rampaging Hulk #2 2014 978-0785189022: Marvel Knights: Hulk – Transformé
Part 2: After Hulk is absorbed by the Supreme Intelligence, the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and the Avengers must work together to free Hulk and prevent the destruction of Earth and the cosmos. After A-Bomb rescues Hulk and Leader, the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and the Avengers gain help from Spider-Man, the Inhumans, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Ghost ...
The story is told from the perspective of an online reality show created by Rick Jones to foster public acceptance of the Hulk as a hero and not a monster. The "show" is filmed by robotic flying cameras that accompany the Agents of the Supreme Military Agency of Super Humans (S.M.A.S.H.) everywhere they go, resulting in humorous vignettes and visual gags throughout each episode.
The first superhero strip to appear in a (future) Power Comic title was the Incredible Hulk, who showed up in Smash! #16 (dated 21 May 1966). The Hulk's initial appearance took up a massive six pages, one-quarter of the 24-page issue, pushing five existing strips out of that issue (and causing the cancellation of two of them). [7]
The Maestro is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Peter David and artist George Pérez, the character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect #1 (Dec. 1992).
Despite the stories being placed in the past, they depicted the Hulk's character as he was contemporaneously, e.g. speaking in his "Hulk smash!" pidgin English, changing to and from Bruce Banner based on his emotions, and wearing tattered purple trousers; whereas in the claimed time frame, he should have spoken fluent, if gangsterish, English ...