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the Incredible Hulk

Stan Lee originally intended the Hulk to be coloured gray, believing that "gray would be a heavy, dramatic, sombre colour, in keeping with the melodramatic mood we wanted to establish." However, initial copies of the first issue showed that the printers had a difficult time maintaining the gray colour, and the decision was made to change his skin to the more familiar green. Until 1986, any and all reprints featuring the origin story would depict the Hulk with green skin, until writer/artist John Byrne would incorporate the original gray colouring into canon in The Incredible Hulk #318.  This was around the time these pins were being produced, hence both green and grey Hulk.

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