Early Hulk panel, Banner college years
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:21 am
Hi,
I've been trying to figure out where a particular panel comes from, without success.
The panel occurs in H2 393, as part of a feature near the end titled "Psychological Ramifications of Gamma Radiation" by Leonard Samson, PhD. This is a text article by Samson that also includes panels from various issues. Some of these panels are readily recognizable, such as from Banner's childhood (H2 312) and as a young student (H2 226). However, I have been unable to identify one panel, on the second page of that story. In text, it states, "Bruce Banner attended Desert State University in Navapo, New Mexico, where he studied such contemporaries as Walter Langkowski... Peter Corbeau ... and Raoul Stoddard ..."; just below that text is a panel that is apparently from a college dorm room; there are four people seated in the room; Banner apparently in the lower left side; possibly Langkowski [Sasquatch] is one of the others; one of the four is a female. The caption states (without identifying the narrator): "I only knew Banner for one term, but he and I were half of a very special little group. We saw a brave, new world beyond our ivy-covered walls and we wanted to comprehend everything about it. While our contemporaries were 'turning on and dropping out', we gathered to squeeze everything we could out of our educations. We were young and idealistic."
I have verified that this panel does not occur in H2 226, 227, 312, 377, 403 or 410, or H3 12 or 13. Because of the references to Langkowski, Corbeau, and Stoddard, I also checked H2 130, 148, and H@ 8 without success. (Incidentally, I came across a single panel in H2 313, on pg. 16, pn. 5, of a flashback to Bruce Banner as a roommate with Langkowski "at the university, years before I became the Hulk", which perhaps should be added to the Hulk's chronology, probably somewhere close in time to the college appearance in the flashback in H2 377 (15), where he kisses Susan Jacobson; Susan's last name was given in H2 410). The art looks like Byrne's, so I also checked H2 314-319, but I verified that it doesn't appear there, either. The one issue that I have not yet checked (but, if memory serves, the panel wasn't from there, either) is the Sasquatch flashbacks in AF 11/2; I do not have ready access to that particular issue but I do have it somewhere.
Otherwise, I am baffled as to where this panel originates. Could it possibly have been a new panel for that page? Seems unlikely, since the other panels are from other older issues.
If anyone could help identify the source of this panel, I would be very appreciative. It, too, would presumably go somewhere close in time to the flashback in H2 377 (15) although it is unclear exactly how old Bruce Banner was in that particular flashback, so it's not clear if it would come before or after it.
I've been trying to figure out where a particular panel comes from, without success.
The panel occurs in H2 393, as part of a feature near the end titled "Psychological Ramifications of Gamma Radiation" by Leonard Samson, PhD. This is a text article by Samson that also includes panels from various issues. Some of these panels are readily recognizable, such as from Banner's childhood (H2 312) and as a young student (H2 226). However, I have been unable to identify one panel, on the second page of that story. In text, it states, "Bruce Banner attended Desert State University in Navapo, New Mexico, where he studied such contemporaries as Walter Langkowski... Peter Corbeau ... and Raoul Stoddard ..."; just below that text is a panel that is apparently from a college dorm room; there are four people seated in the room; Banner apparently in the lower left side; possibly Langkowski [Sasquatch] is one of the others; one of the four is a female. The caption states (without identifying the narrator): "I only knew Banner for one term, but he and I were half of a very special little group. We saw a brave, new world beyond our ivy-covered walls and we wanted to comprehend everything about it. While our contemporaries were 'turning on and dropping out', we gathered to squeeze everything we could out of our educations. We were young and idealistic."
I have verified that this panel does not occur in H2 226, 227, 312, 377, 403 or 410, or H3 12 or 13. Because of the references to Langkowski, Corbeau, and Stoddard, I also checked H2 130, 148, and H@ 8 without success. (Incidentally, I came across a single panel in H2 313, on pg. 16, pn. 5, of a flashback to Bruce Banner as a roommate with Langkowski "at the university, years before I became the Hulk", which perhaps should be added to the Hulk's chronology, probably somewhere close in time to the college appearance in the flashback in H2 377 (15), where he kisses Susan Jacobson; Susan's last name was given in H2 410). The art looks like Byrne's, so I also checked H2 314-319, but I verified that it doesn't appear there, either. The one issue that I have not yet checked (but, if memory serves, the panel wasn't from there, either) is the Sasquatch flashbacks in AF 11/2; I do not have ready access to that particular issue but I do have it somewhere.
Otherwise, I am baffled as to where this panel originates. Could it possibly have been a new panel for that page? Seems unlikely, since the other panels are from other older issues.
If anyone could help identify the source of this panel, I would be very appreciative. It, too, would presumably go somewhere close in time to the flashback in H2 377 (15) although it is unclear exactly how old Bruce Banner was in that particular flashback, so it's not clear if it would come before or after it.