>wasn't his name Bruce Banner in the comic, but David Banner in the series?< yes, but oddly enough in the TV Series of Spiderman they kept the name Peter Parker. Alliterative naming is crucial in these things ( wasn't Dr.Strange called Steve ?) >Don't remember the Absorbing Man.< I don't have any Absorbing man comics. I just remember the Hulk battle with him, also Hulk battled Thor in a later issue around the same time. Anyhow the Absorbing Man had finally been contained and in jail....you see the problem, he can absorb anything..he really can be a man of steel as oppose to that Kent lad whose only similarity to steel is a combination of luck and his proximity to the red sun of Krypton. So the Absorbing Man was contained in a cardboard box because absorbing that would make him weak, so he stays in the box..of course the cell leaks a little and the box gets damp, our Absorbing buddy sees his chance and becomes water, escapes and a few pages later engages in fisticuffs with that green muscle-bound radiation boy we've come to know and love, although we don't like him when he's angry... cue music.....walking along at the side of the road, bag over one shoulder.....one of TV's saddest weekly moments in the seventies. cheers, Sol.
