Herbert William Trimpe was an American comics artist and occasional writer, best known as the seminal 1970s artist on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who later became a breakout star of the X-Men.
15 Facts About Herb Trimpe
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Herb Trimpe was born May 26,1939, in Peekskill, New York, the son of Anna and Herbert Trimpe.
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Herb Trimpe said they needed somebody on staff in the production department to run the new photostat machine they had just bought, and to do some production work.
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Herb Trimpe said that he devised the military unit the Hulkbusters, which became a regular element of The Incredible Hulk:.
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Herb Trimpe had a year's run on The Defenders, a superhero-team comic featuring the Hulk.
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Herb Trimpe drew the cover, featuring the Hulk, of the 1971 issue of Rolling Stone containing a major profile of Marvel Comics.
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In 1976, Herb Trimpe was one of the inkers of Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, an oversized treasury-format one-shot written and penciled by Jack Kirby.
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When Marvel went bankrupt in the mid-1990s, Herb Trimpe attended Empire State College, Hudson Valley Center, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Arts in 1997.
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Herb Trimpe went on to a master's degree program at SUNY New Paltz.
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Herb Trimpe lost his staff position in the mid-1990s when Marvel downsized, but he continued to freelance for the publisher.
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Sometime between 1969 and 1971, Herb Trimpe was divorced from his first wife.
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In late 1972, Herb Trimpe married Marvel Comics editorial assistant and writer Linda Fite, with whom he had three children.
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Herb Trimpe later was married to Patricia, who survived him after his death.
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At some point, Herb Trimpe lived in Kerhonkson, New York, and afterward Hurley, New York.
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Herb Trimpe was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of New York on May 30,1992.