I remember contacting Marvel at the time giving them my theories regarding the character and giving Marvel a wish list of whom I wanted the Hulk to fight next.

Apologies for the lateness of my reply. My system as gone down again. I am using someone else’s IT System. In answer to your questions :-

Well it seemed to me that Marvel had chosen to ignore former character’s (and former story arc’s) before Mantlo’s run.

It was Bill Mantlo who set things up for PAD to use later down the line (Bruce’s childhood for example)and it was PAD that went back to Jarella’s world. I think Marvel honcho’s wanted to try some new things and PAD eventually brought things back onto an even keel.

The Ghost of the Future on the other hand involves Talbolt’s nephew getting revenge for the events in 260.

One exception is a story with a new Glob that mentions the original. This was not by David but a fill in written by a man named Tom Field.

You said Marvel chose to ignore everything before Mantlo. I would say it included almost everything pre issue 300. A good portion of Mantlo’s run. It seems to me that after the child abuse origins they wanted to reboot the character. Basically it was isssues 102-299 that they took out.

Starting with the ghost of the Future late in 95 Peter David story we saw the nephew of Talbolt. The story even mentions the death of the Glen Talbolt in the volcano from 260. The first time anything was directly related that those issues.

What is odd is in that storyline,someone wrote mentioning a bunch of stories from way back in the letters page. The editor’s comment was something to the effect of “We and Peter David prefer to deal with more recent characters”. Odd considering this was the first time that a story was directly related to those issues.

2-3 years later they did the retro Hulk series Glen Greenberg did. Talbolt was a main character in that. It toos place during the time period of those ignored issues. Sort of a Hulk version of Untold Tales of Spider-Man. It only lasted 6 issues was canceled. I will post a link to a interview with Greenberg if you are interested.

Wishing you all a belated New Year. I am hoping to watch the first of the three episodes of this amazing story arc today.

I am glad that this site is still going from strength to strength. Keep up the good work lovely people!