the character's debut story was also illustrated by Jack Kirby. The character reappeared in issue #66 (March 1961). Since then the character has been a mainstay in the Marvel Universe, and was renamed Xemnu the Living Titan. A huge, orange, slimy monster called the Hulk was featured in a movie titled The Hulk in Tales to Astonish #21 (July 1961). In modern-day reprints, the character's name was changed to the Glop. In other media The character was first played in live-action by Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno in the 1978 television series The Incredible Hulk and its subsequent television films The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988), The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989), and The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990), then by Eric Bana in the film Hulk (2003). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the character was first portrayed by Edward Norton in the film The Incredible Hulk (2008) and then by Mark Ruffalo in The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), the television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022), and the animated series What If...? (2021), where Ruffalo reprised the role. Reception The Hulk was ranked #1 on a listing of Marvel Comics' monster characters in 2015. In 2018, CBR.com ranked The Thing (Bruce Banner) 2nd in their "Age Of Apocalypse: The 30 Strongest Characters In Marvel's Coolest Alternate World" list. In 2022, Screen Rant included Hulk in their "10 Most Powerful Hercules Villains In Marvel Comics" list. See also List of Marvel Comics superhero debuts References External links Hulk on IMDb Avengers (comics) characters Hulk (comics) Characters created by Jack Kirby Characters created by Stan Lee Comics adapted into television series Comics by Jack Kirby Comics by Stan Lee Comics by Steve Ditko Comics characters introduced in 1962 Fictional characters from New Mexico Fictional characters from Ohio Fictional attempted suicides Fictional California Institute of Technology people Fictional characters with dissociative identity disorder Fictional characters with nuclear or radiation abilities Fictional characters with superhuman durability or invulnerability Fictional fugitives Fictional geneticists Fictional gladiators Fictional illeists Fictional physicians Fictional nuclear physicists Fictional patricides Fictional vegan and vegetarian characters Fictional warlords Horror comics Marvel Comics male superheroes Male characters in film Marvel Comics adapted into films Marvel Comics adapted into video games Marvel