The Incredible Hulk issue #2 page 20 and second print cover
Artist: Nic Klein (Penciller)
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Issue #2 second print cover
Issue #2 Page 20
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DescriptionThe spring and fall of the dandelion treeThere was always more to do outside the house than in it. That was when I grew up. Where I grew up the yard was forward...just big enough to keep me in it. The garden was behind it...just big enough to keep me busy all spring, all summer and into the fall. The yard had the biggest tree in the neighborhood! As tall as it was, it had these huge leaves and was in the right spot to blanket the yard in shade all summer! Being out of the sun meant staying out longer and whether you lay in the grass or hung tight to a branch, it was the coolest...but off to the side was the dandelion tree. Not a scientific name, of course, it's just what I called it. It was planted by my father. One of the few things carried as a clipping from a place he left behind, but still a piece he could take with him. If you were to walk up to it in the earliest of the spring season it stood just under 6 feet tall. It's trunk straight and about 5 inches thick, and at the very top a round ball surrounded by the stubble of thin cut branches from the year before. A tree that was older than me, but never allowed to grow taller than I. A tree that was as important as the shade tree. Because, as the season of spring grew on, so did the tiny shoots grow from the stubbled ball at its top. With its green and yellow leaves it would start to take the shape and look of a dandelion. It grew no fruit, but the harvest was of the branches! Zip ties had not made their way into the corner stores and having a garden meant things needed to be tied together. That meant cutting a shooting branch from the dandelion tree, and it was as simple as twisting the thin end around the other. It would hold all season, and as the green branch turned brown its grip got tighter and its hold greater. When it came time to undo, it was simply clipped and composted. A method we used year after year. And as the season turned to fall the remaining branches would be trimmed off, keeping the tree's bounty from growing higher than our reach. A method carried over from generation to generation. As valuable as the shadow from the shade tree was to me as a kid, I would not be here if not for the branches of the dandelion tree. My father would tell me that it was from selling those branches as a kid he would garner the bit of money to leave the home he hated. And as the fall season came the rest of the branches would be cut, the dandelion tree ready and bare to stand against the winter and be ready for the spring. This was done every single year. The branches never really used as much as they once were but the cycle held. A few years after I bought my home my father brought me two of these trees. He started growing them from clipping of the dandelion tree I grew up with the day I moved into my new home and once they were big enough, he brought them over...we planted them together. He regretted it so much! I refused to groom them the way I would trim his dandelion tree every year. The two grew tall and strong...and after one was split in half after a storm it grew twice as tall! Twenty years I've lived with these trees, twenty years he's given me grief for not trimming them. Twenty years I would take a trip to see the dandelion tree and trim its branches till one day, a few years back, my father sat me down with a cup of coffee and said “that's enough”. I've never taken a branch from the dandelion tree since. So here, a special place in my gallery...in memoriam of my dad. Social/Sharing |
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Marcus Wai 
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 2/23/2025
Quite a dandy tale! Hulk in this series is body horror with his wild growth and transformation!
Timothy L.
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 2/25/2025
Marcus Wai wrote:
Quite a dandy tale! Hulk in this series is body horror with his wild growth and transformation!
I see what you did there Marcus Wai...
Rob R
Member Since 2019
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1 - Posted on 2/23/2025
I love the body horror in this series and this is a great example. Sorry to hear about your dad, but it's great to hear the positive impact he's had and will have.
Felix Lu
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 2/24/2025
What a beautiful memory and tribute. Thank you for posting it.
Timothy L.
Member Since 2019
Posted on 2/25/2025
Felix Lu wrote:
What a beautiful memory and tribute. Thank you for posting it.
Many thx to you Felix...I don't want to take anyone's time for granted, so I do appreciate it when people find the space in their day to read through the comment sections.
Anthony D.
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 2/24/2025
Well color me green with envy. That's just phenomenal. Klein put so much movement and emotion into this page. A true grail. Huge congrats.
Timothy L.
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 2/25/2025
Anthony D. wrote:
Well color me green with envy. That's just phenomenal. Klein put so much movement and emotion into this page. A true grail. Huge congrats.
Many thx Anthony! But that Geoff Shaw cover of your's...gorgeous!
Michael Weigant
Member Since 2009
1 - Posted on 2/24/2025
The hulk in all his organic shape and glory and a wonderful tale of a father and a son relationship !
Timothy L.
Member Since 2019
Posted on 2/25/2025
Michael Weigant wrote:
The hulk in all his organic shape and glory and a wonderful tale of a father and a son relationship !
Thx for your time to read though, much appreciate it Michael.
Timothy L.
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 2/25/2025
T Shen wrote:
Came for the art, staying for the stories.
I love that you said that...means bunches to me. And your Hulk pages...my gosh!
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