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Prime Versus the Incredible Hulk #0 (July 1995):
“Monsters of Manhattan”
by Len Strazewski, Gerard Jones, Peter David, John Statema, etc.

Prime Versus the Incredible Hulk #0

Title: “Monsters of Manhattan”

Medium: comic

Cover date: July 1995

Publisher: Marvel Malibu
Written by: Len Strazewski, Gerard Jones, Peter David
Art by: John Statema, Kevin West, Bob Smith, Mike DeCarlo, Rodney Gates


10 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
The Hulk The Hulk (Bruce Banner)
(lead character)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed)
Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Marvel 4,551
Prime Prime (Kevin Green)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Gross Babies; UltraForce Malibu Marvel 116
Eugene Wildeman supporting character scientist
  [mutated captured children, self with gamma rays] Marvel Malibu 1
unnamed monster villain
CBR Scale: D N.A.
[1st app: Prime Versus the Incredible Hulk #0 (July 1995)] Marvel Malibu 1
Spider-Man Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
(cameo)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 10,664
Captain America Captain America (Steve Rogers)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  Marvel Timely 5,992
Quicksilver Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)
(cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: I Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; The Avengers...  Marvel 944
Black Widow Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Russian Orthodox Communist (lapsed)
Lady Liberators; Marvel Knights...  Marvel 1,789
Black Knight Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: S Christian (medieval)
Excalibur; Heroes for Hire...  Marvel 430
The Avengers The Avengers
(cameo)
hero group
  [1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)] Marvel 100

The story in this issue is divided into two chapters:
- Monsters of Manhattan Part I (pencilled by John Statema; inked by Bob Smith and Mike DeCarlo)
- Monsters of Manhattan Part II (pencilled by Kevin West; inked by Rodney Gates)

Regular Prime writers Len Strazewski and Gerard Jones wrote both chapters, with Peter David (regular Incredible Hulk writer at the time) credited for "plotting assist."