2006-10-10 06:32:19 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
The Hulk's skin color is gray in The Incredible Hulk #1, a decision made by Stan Lee, who wanted a color that did not suggest a particular ethnic group. Colorist Stan Golberg, however, insisted to Lee that the coloring technology at the time could not present the color gray clearly or consistently, resulting in different shades of gray, and even green, in the issue. So in issue #2 and after, Goldberg colored the Hulk's skin green. Reprints and retellings of the Hulk's origin during the next two decades feature him with green skin from the beginning, but in 1986, issue #324 reveals that the Hulk had been gray at the time
Besides, purple woulda looked funny!
2006-10-10 06:51:55 · answer #1 · answered by nickymo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I read once that "Gamma rays are green" and that that's reason the Hulk, Leader, Abomination, Doc Samson, et al, were tinted green.
Sasquatch, who has gamma-spawned powers also, was orange because of the Northern Lights or something...
2006-10-10 06:42:39 · answer #2 · answered by Bill N 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gamma Rays
2006-10-10 12:24:57 · answer #3 · answered by Coot 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He had to stand out from the rest of the comic superheroes,
Batman is BLACK.
Superman is BLUE.
Spiderman is RED.
Phantom is PURPLE.
...and so Hulk is GREEN.
2006-10-10 06:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gamma Radiation.
2006-10-10 09:13:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was watching body builders on the tv and got so green with envy that he turned green! hahaha
2006-10-10 06:56:12 · answer #6 · answered by bee 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It makes for a more original super hero than him turning red or staying a regular color. Also it makes him more menacing.
2006-10-10 11:50:44 · answer #7 · answered by ghost_sniperx 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cuz as a kid he had always wished to be like Popeye the sailor and ate too much spinach!! poor thing :p (actually, isn't it because of his rage and envy? they're kinda "green" emotions, aren't they? :s)
2006-10-10 10:03:04 · answer #8 · answered by Cec 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's because he was shot with a gamma ray atomic gun
2006-10-10 07:41:02 · answer #9 · answered by HiddenLee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gamma Rays :)
2006-10-10 06:41:46 · answer #10 · answered by Nafy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋