There are two questions I have been wondering about with the Hulk.
The first is, does the Hulk NEED to eat? It's been shown that he can eat in the comics (Jim Wilson giving him a candy bar), but does his body require it. I ask because the Hulk spends 3 weeks in a shipping without food, and it would seem to me that he wouldn't need food. Just curious if this issue is ever addressed.

Second, in the 60's and 70's what do you think the collateral damage of the Hulk's battles are. I'm asking because even though we have never seen the Hulk physically kill with his hands (up to IH 134, where I'm at) he does seem capable, sometimes he's stopped by an attack or what not, and he clearly wants to kill Banner. He kills Draxon by smashing a machine which results in Draxon's death, but it was indirect. My main focus though, is the minions of leader's like Tyrannus, Mole Man, Draxon, etc. I'm again using issues around 134, where Hulk causes a huge landslide of rocks and the soldiers fall with the rocks. Is it reasonable to assume they died?

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

The first question I don't know. It's interesting, but I suspect no ones really thought about it. Logically he would need to eat, but since when have comics been logical

The second one is, from my perspective, a 'cultural' thing. There seemed to be a culture in the 60's and 70's that people didn't 'die' randomly in comics. If you read the early comics especially, every time a monster or hero goes crashing into a building someone ALWAYS remarks something like 'wow, that was lucky he hit the abandoned old mill' or words to that effect.

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Right, or the building that was already scheduled to be demolished. I've noticed that, but the Hulk gets embroiled in wars (ie sides with huge armies like the characters I mentioned) more than any other character. I mean we've seen Fury shoot Hydra agents dead. That's his job, but when it comes to the Hulk creating havoc right near soldiers, I just wonder if they did indeed die.

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

IIRC it's later said or implied that Bruce has some secondary influence over the Hulk in at least some of his forms. The fact that the Hulk does so little damage in terms of life is supposed to be a result of this. Bruce prevents the Hulk from directly killing anyone.

As for the food I'd imagine he doesn't need it. I know in Planet Hulk it's mentioned that the Hulk can adapt to and/or survive most anything. He spends most of his journey back to earth on the outside of the ship in in vacuum and isn't the worse for wear.

That is part of the comics code I believed. collateral damage / senseless killing was against the rules.

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So you think they probably died, but couldn't devote any actual story time to it? Or do you think that the writers just assumed the soldier's would be dug out, so as not to violate the code even in spirit?

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

yeah he needs food. when the hulk was exiled from reality by dr strange he had a difficult time finding things he could eat. I think he can go long periods of time without though.

Isn't the whole point of mole people that they're expendable? so I guess if you're smart enough to wonder if they did die then the writers intended you to assume that they did.

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I think you answered both questions in a quite deft manner, much obliged.

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

Ya know, after reading Astonishing Tales #7, it seems that in the 70's the villains are more willing and able to kill. Doom lets his prisoner go without killing him, but the second someone raises a gun to his hawk, he blasts the guy to Kingdom Come.

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

On the subject on death in early comics; I'm surprised the Comics Code Authority allowed a guy to commit suicide by walking in front of a car, including a panel of his dead body in a pool of blood in DD #3.

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