Dr. Bce Banner beme Dr. David Banner for the "Incredible Hulk" TV show back the 1970s, and Lou Ferrigno says the name change me about bee CBS thought the name Bce was "gay-ish."
Contents:
- MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
- THE INCREDIBLY GAY HULK
- IS HULK GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
- STAN LEE WAS WRONG ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE HULK
- LOU FERRIGNO -- BCE BANNER WAS TOO GAY FOR TV
MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
In recent years, many Marvel fans have exprsed disappotment that the MCU is takg s sweet time to troduce a gay character who isn't a meo by the director of the movie appearg onscreen for 40 sends.
The '70s: No Gay People In The Marvel Universe...
THE INCREDIBLY GAY HULK
Throughout the '60s and most of the '70s, there were no gay characters Marvel ics, unls you unt the ocsnal effemate villa or "lispy stool pigeon.
IS HULK GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
" And we say "most of the '70s" bee that changed 1979 wh the troductn of the first explicly homosexual characters Marvel Comics history.
STAN LEE WAS WRONG ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE HULK
Gay rears, and people wh basic humany general, weren't imprsed wh the fact that Marvel's first foray to LGBTQ reprentatn nsisted of two dis-era rapists lled Dewey and Luellen (Dewey and Luellen (c) Walt Disney Company, all rights rerved). When they let Marvel know about this, wrer/ic child prodigy Jim Shooter, who also happened to be the pany's Edor--Chief, fend the story by sayg that he " unrstand why any non-rapist would be offend" and potg out that there were lots of non-sister gay characters that very magaze. You jt uldn't tell they were gay.
LOU FERRIGNO -- BCE BANNER WAS TOO GAY FOR TV
Shooter apparently liked this "you n't see the gay people" policy, nsirg what happened next...
The '80s: Marvel Bans Gay Characters (But Some Slip Through Anyway).