What If? Vol 1 2

What If? #2
Previous Issue	What If? #1
Next Issue	What If? #3
Cover Date	April, 1977
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Stan Lee

1. "What If the Hulk Had Always Had Bruce Banner's Brain?"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Roy Thomas
Penciler(s)	Herb Trimpe
Inker(s)	Tom Sutton
Letterer(s)	Joe Rosen Orz
Editor(s)	Roy Thomas

 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?"

Featured Characters:

• X-Man (First appearance)
  • Hulk ⏵ (First appearance)
  • Mister Fantastic (First appearance)
  • Professor X (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• Rick Jones (First appearance)
• Betty Ross (First appearance)
• General Ross (First appearance)
• Fantastic Four (First appearance)
  • Thing (First appearance)
  • Invisible Girl (First appearance)
  • Human Torch (First appearance)
• Alicia Masters (First appearance)
• Thor (First appearance) (Cameo)
• Ant-Man (First appearance) (Cameo)
• Wasp (First appearance) (Cameo)
• Iron Man (First appearance) (Cameo)

Antagonists:

• Igor Drenkov (First appearance)
• The Gargoyle (First appearance)
• Loki (First appearance)
• Galactus (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Uatu
• Hulk (Earth-616)
• Rick Jones (Earth-616)
• General Ross (Earth-616)
• Zeke

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Watchers
• Mutants
• Asgardians
• Frost Giants
• Taa-ans
• Cosmic Beings

Locations:

• Earth-616
  • Earth
    • United States of America
      • California
        • Los Angeles
      • New Mexico
        • Gamma Test Site
• Earth-774 (First appearance)
  • Earth (First appearance)
    • United States of America (First appearance)
      • New Mexico (First appearance)
        • Gamma Test Site
    • Bruce Banner's Cabin
    • The Banners' Hulk-Proof Home
    • New York (First appearance)
      • New York City (First appearance)
        • The Baxter Building (First appearance)
  • Asgard (First appearance)
    • Isle of Silence (First appearance)

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?"

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.

Trivia

• 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.

See Also

• 20 image(s) from What If? Vol 1 2
• 9 reprint(s) of What If? Vol 1 2