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The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #314 (Dec. 1985):
“Call of the Desert”
by John Byrne, Bob Wiacek

The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #314

Title: “Call of the Desert”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1985

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: John Byrne
Art by: John Byrne, Bob Wiacek


15 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) hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed)
Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Marvel 4,551
Doc Samson Doc Samson (Dr. Leonard Samson) hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
E.D.I.T. (leader); Initiative Marvel 304
buck
(6-panel cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: I N.A.
deer
[male deer; attacked Hulk; killed by Hulk]
Marvel 1
A-Bomb Rick Jones
(5-panel cameo)
supporting character
  Loners (founder); The Avengers (honorary member)...  Marvel 572
Red She-Hulk Betty Ross
(4-panel cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: S Catholic (former novitiate)
Code Red; Home Base... 
[girlfriend (later wife) of Dr. Bruce Banner (the Hulk)]
Marvel 463
Ramon
(4-panel cameo)
supporting character
  [former lover of Betty Ross] Marvel 7
Tug Wilson
(4-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [Colorado boy who saw Hulk] Marvel 1
Polly
(4-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [briefly dated co-worker Doc Samson] Marvel 1
Ray
(2-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [professor] Marvel 1
Juggernaut Juggernaut (Cain Marko)
(illusion)
villain hero
CBR Scale: I Christian (denomination
unknown)
Brotherhood of Mutants; Excalibur...  Marvel 387
Rhino Rhino (Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich)
(illusion)
villain
  Doom's Brigade; Emissaries of Evil (Egghead)...  Marvel 305
M.O.D.O.K. M.O.D.O.K. (George Tarleton)
(illusion)
villain
CBR Scale: S Scientism
A.I.M. (leader) Marvel 199
The Leader The Leader (Samuel Sterns)
(illusion)
villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Headshop (founder); Home Base (leader)...  Marvel 167
Freddie
(mentioned)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [Betty Ross went to Freddie's party with boyfriend Ramon] Marvel 1
Scarface Scarface (Al Capone)
(mentioned)
villain real/historical person
CBR Scale: I Catholic
Mafia DC Marvel 109