After Lou Ferrigno and before the Avengers there was simply HULK, the 2003 first cinematic outing for possibly Marvels favourite character played by Eric Bana. What the film lacks in humour it almost makes up for in heart. Maybe a little too serious in tone for a family superhero movie, it did however reflect the tone of the early comics. Stan Lee got the idea from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde, which was after all a horror story and finding levity in a man's struggle to contain and control his inner demons is not easy. As Bill Bixby said in his 1970s tv portrayal of Doctor Banner, you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.

Mute’s depiction of the gentleman behind the raging beast is, as usual, spot on. Includes an authentication certificate from The Sterling Collection signed by Steve Eyre.