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Banner, Betty

The Hulk’s beloved

Betty Banner

FACTFILE

REAL NAME

Elizabeth Ross Banner

OCCUPATION

Nonę

BASE

Mobile

HEIGHT 5ft 6 m WEIGHT 110 ibs EYES Blue

HAIR Brown

The only daughter ofrenowned military generał Thaddeus “Tliunderbolt” Ross. Berty spent her forma tive years tirmly under her fathers thumb. Thunderbolt Ross had wanted a son, and had no use for his unfortnnate daughter; after her mother died during Betty s tecnage years, she was sent awav to boarding school. After graduating. she returned to her father s side. a represscd wallflower. Thunderbolt Ross was thcn in charge of a top-sccret projcct to creatc a new type of weapon, employing thc limitless power of gamma radiation.The head scientist on the project was the quiet, bookish Bruce Banner. and an attraction betwecn Betty and Banner soon des eloped.

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FIRST APPEARANCE

Irtcreófóie Huto # 1 (May 1962)

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LSSENTIAL STORYLINES

•    Hulk Vol. 2 »168-169

MOOOK tranafarros Botty rfo tho Harpy

•    Hulk Vol. 2 9319

yeart cf cxxjrtsNp and chaos. Bruce Bar inw finafty rramos Betty.

•    Hulk Vot. 2 9465-469

Betty »wepowd to radwbon potoonng: Bruc« desperately tm» lo «av© hor

TRAGIC LOVE

Ihcir rclationship was forever changcd when. during the gamma-bomb test. Banner was struck by thc fuli forcc ot thc dctonation. and its radiations transfermcd him into the Hulk whcncvcr he grew angry. Banner tried to keep his condition seeret from Betty, whu h onh serwd to alicnate them. Betty was then ardcntly pursucd by Major Glcnn Talbot (see Talboi , < ol. Glcnn), thc new aide attached to her fathers Hulkbuster task lorce.

F.vcntually. the seeret of Banner's dual ulentity became pnblic knowledge. and his transłbrmations and rampages created a rilt betwecn Betty and hnnself With no one else to tum to. Betty married Major Talbot. T hcir union soon ended in dworce. liowewr, and Talbot died attemptmg to destroy thc Hulk.

Harpy Horror

Betty eontinued to tind herself cntangled m the hve$ of Biucc Banner and thc 1 lulk. At one point she was transformed by thc viUainous Moook into a gamina-empowered flying menace known as the Harpy But cvcn tliese trials could not destroy her love for hapless Bruce Banner. and eventiially. despite her fathers objections,she married him I Ioweser lasting happiness was not to be theirs. After spending years living as fugimes, Betty’ was poisoned by the Hulks kmg-time enemy the Abomination. w ini used his own gamma-irradiated biood to do the deed hoping to incriminate Banner. Placed m cryonic suspension, Betty w as thereafter revived by the l BADLii. and for a time aided lier fugitive husband as his shadowy contact, Mr. Blue. 1 ler present whereabouts are unknown, but it is a yirtual certainty that she will re-enter the hfc of the Hulk betbre too long. TB

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