Thing Smash Puny Red Hulk!

[samurainoir]

[The Toyroom]

Looks like Benjamin Grimm is wearing his old Thing suit from the 70s with that seam down the center...

[The Toyroom]

...and he's cheating with Invisible Force Field Fists!

[BlackKnight]

But Red Hulks a "Good Guy" Now, working with Banner,... So Obviously Ben got them all retro-70's shorts out for nothing.

Again,... they need to put sleeves on Reed's shirt ...., it just looks wrong.

[The Toyroom]

But Red Hulks a "Good Guy" Now, working with Banner,... So Obviously Ben got them all retro-70's shorts out for nothing.

No I was referring to when he was just Ben Grimm for a while and had to wear an exo-skeleton suit to look like the Thing...sorta like a Iron Man armor

[samurainoir]

No I was referring to when he was just Ben Grimm for a while and had to wear an exo-skeleton suit to look like the Thing...sorta like a Iron Man armor

That sounds like a hoot! Circa which issues was that?

[The Toyroom]

^ Off the top of my head, he appears like that in a cameo waaaaay back in Avengers #151

[Riffster]

isn't that circa the 190's?

[The Toyroom]

No...the 190s you're in to the Byrne era on Avengers I think.... (or where you taking about the Fantastic Four title?)...the issue I'm referring to is during the 1st Perez run.

[The Toyroom]

Did some double-checking....The Thing's exo-skeleton debuted in 1976 in F.F. #169 and lasted 'til #175. He regained his powers at that point. Since then the suit has popped up every now and again.

[samurainoir]

Did Reed build the Exo-Suit? You have to wonder how much Reed secretly likes to torture Ben if he knows that Ben hates being The Thing. Rather than build him an exo suit that looks like a sleek and shiny suit of armour like Iron Man, he decides to torture Ben by making him wear a Thing costume.

And rather than suggest Ben get counseling when Reed realized it's a psychological issue rather than a physiological problem that prevents Ben from turning back and forth to his human form (like The Torch does), Reed just shrugs his shoulders and let's Ben continue to think he's trapped as The Thing.

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[samurainoir]

Did some double-checking....The Thing's exo-skeleton debuted in 1976 in F.F. #169 and lasted 'til #175. He regained his powers at that point. Since then the suit has popped up every now and again.

Ah! Around the time when THEY PAID Luke Cage to replace Ben on the Team.



No wonder Ben's all "***? WHY DON'T I GET PAID?!"


We don't find out the answer until recently during JMS' run where it's revealed that Ben actually owns a quarter of the Fantastic Four Corporation.

Showing once again what a Jerk Reed actually is for not even telling Ben he's a Billionaire, until Reed and the others are broke.

[samurainoir]

However, that was no where near as good as the time LUKE CAGE got stiffed by Doctor Doom. SO HE TRAVELS ALL THE WAY TO LATVERIA TO COLLECT $200. The lesson being, LUKE GETS PAID!

[The Toyroom]

Yeah that was part of the whole storyline....Ben loses powers, Reed hires Power Man, Reed builds Ben exo-skeleton, Ben gets powers back.....

[Werewolf]

Are they going to do a Darkest Night type of thing and have Hulks in a bunch of differnt colors? Or is it just going to be the two green and two red Hulks?