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In early 1977, Frank Price, head of Universal television offered producer and writer Kenneth Johnson a deal to develop a TV show based on any of several characters they had licensed from the Marvel Comics Johnson turned down the offer at first, but then, while reading the novel Les Misrebele he became inspired and began working to develop the Hulk comic into a TV show.
Johnson made several changes from the comic book, in part to translate it into a live-action show that was more believable and acceptable to a wide audience, and in part because he disliked comics and thus felt it best that the show was as different from the source material as possible. In the character's origin story, rather than being exposed to gamma rays during a botched atomic testing explosion, Banner is gamma-irradiated in a more low-key laboratory mishap during a test on himself. Another change was Banner's occupation, from physisit to medical researcher/physician. Although the comic book Hulk's degree of speaking ability has varied over the years
Other Show runners would be contacted by Fred Price for TV shows with various success over the years, this is the story true believers of the shows of the Marvel Prime time universe And how it effects the comics
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