10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About The Hulk

1. Every Time He Tried To Kill Himself

Startling Stories: Banner is one of the most harrowing, disturbing and brilliant Incredible Hulk stories you'll ever read. Except you never will read it, since the collected edition is long out of print and you can't get it as a digital back issue. The reason Marvel are trying to keep a lid on this miniseries? Bruce Banner keeps trying to kill himself in it.

Like, multiple times. The out-of-continuity story by writer Brian Azzarello and artist Richard Corben features a terminally depressed Bruce Banner, who repeatedly tries to end his life thanks to the crippling guilt from a series of Hulk rampages which leave hundreds dead and even more injured. But The Hulk won't let him.

He puts a shotgun in his mouth, and wakes up after another smashing session. Same when he climbs a mountain and leaps off. There's some fighting with Doc Samson but, for the most part, it's an extremely non-traditional story that is mainly just incredibly sad. It profiles the psychological destruction The Hulk wreaks along with the literal mess.

It makes sense Bruce Banner would be a little downbeat over his whole situation – he is in the films – but this took it to a whole new, extreme level. And it'll never be referred to by Marvel ever, ever again.

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