What If the Hulk Had the Brain of Bruce Banner?

What If? Vol 1 #2

April, 1977

Editor-in-Chief

Stan Lee

Cover Artists

Herb Trimpe
Joe Sinnott

"What If the Hulk Had Always Had Bruce Banner's Brain?"
Writers Roy Thomas Pencilers Herb Trimpe Inkers Tom Sutton Colourists Glynis Wein Letterers Orz Joe Rosen Editors Roy Thomas

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I am the ultimate self-induced mutation-- the living embodiment of the unknown-- of that which scientists have ever called "X"! I am the X-Man!

-- X-Man

Appearing in "What If the Hulk Had Always Had Bruce Banner's Brain?"Edit

Featured Characters:

• The X-Man

• Hulk (Bruce Banner)
• Mister Fantastic
• Professor X

Supporting Characters:

• Rick Jones
• Betty Ross
• General Ross
• Fantastic Four

• Thing
• Invisible Girl
• Human Torch

• Alicia Masters
• Thor
• Ant-Man
• Wasp
• Iron Man
• Zeke

Villains:

• Igor (Banner's lab assistant)
• The Gargoyle
• Loki
• Galactus

Other Characters:

• Uatu
• Hulk of 616
• LAPD Riot Squad
• The Watcher of 616
• Rick Jones of 616
• General Ross of 616

Locations:

• Earth-616

• Los Angeles, California
• Gamma Test Site, New Mexico

• Earth-774

• Gamma Test Site, New Mexico
• Bruce Banner's Cabin
• The Banners' Hulk-Proof Home
• The Baxter Building, New York, New York
• Isle of Silence, Asgard

Items:

• Gamma Bomb
• .38 Caliber Revolver
• The Psychotron (Not the same one as in Avengers #41)
• Cerebro

Vehicles:

• Banner, Richards, and Xavier's Airship
  
  

Synopsis for "What If the Hulk Had Always Had Bruce Banner's Brain?"Edit

Bruce Banner, Reed Richards and Charles Xavier constructed an improved version of Cerebro called the Psychotron which merged their physical and mental beings into one being, X-Man. They were forced to use it (as it only worked once before blowing up), to defend the world from Galactus. They won the battle, at the expense of all of their super powers, and inadvertently turning Thing into a mindless monster, much like the Hulk.

NotesEdit

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TriviaEdit

• Sue states that Bloomingdale's gives a special discount to Superheroes' wives.
• Uatu learns that there was another way to defeat Galactus instead of giving up the Ultimate Nullifier.

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Recommended ReadingEdit

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