Hulk: Raging Thunder #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHulk: Raging Thunder #1 is the debut of Lyra — the genetically engineered daughter of Thundra and the Hulk — making it one of the more consequential one-shots in the 2008 expansion of the Hulk family line. The issue introduced a structurally novel gamma-powered character whose abilities are an intentional inversion of her father's: she grows weaker with anger rather than stronger, a design choice that immediately distinguished her from every other Hulk-lineage figure in Marvel history. Her fan reception was strong enough to earn her a follow-on one-shot and then a solo four-issue limited series within a year, cementing this issue as the true origin point for a character who went on to join the Defenders and Avengers Academy. The simultaneous publication of Skaar: Son of Hulk on the same release date made June 11, 2008 a remarkable single day for the Hulk mythos, with Marvel quietly revealing two previously unknown adult children of Bruce Banner in one afternoon.
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Writer Jeff Parker drew on deep Marvel lore to build the story, naming the new character Lyra after Princess Lyra from Savage Tales #1 — the original first appearance of the Femizons, the fictional forebears of Thundra's Sisterhood. The issue was shepherded by editors Nathan Cosby and Mark Paniccia under editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, and was structured as a prestige one-shot pairing a new 22-page lead story with a reprint of Fantastic Four #133 (1973), Thundra's classic debut against the Thing — an editorial choice that gave new readers instant context for the time-traveling warrior. The issue was later collected in the Giant-Size Hulk hardcover (2008) and again in a Fall of the Hulks trade paperback.
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- First appearance and full origin of Lyra (Earth-8009), the genetically engineered daughter of Thundra and Bruce Banner/Hulk, who becomes the second character to hold the She-Hulk name in the Marvel Universe.
- Written by Jeff Parker with interior art by Mitch Breitweiser (pencils and inks) and colors by Moose Baumann; cover painted by Greg Land with inks by Jay Leisten.
- Published as a one-shot (47 pages total) with an on-sale date of June 11, 2008 and a cover date of August 2008 — the same release week as Skaar: Son of Hulk #1, meaning Marvel revealed two unknown adult children of the Hulk simultaneously.
- Lyra's defining power mechanic — she grows weaker as she grows angrier, the direct inverse of her father — was deliberately engineered by the future Sisterhood to keep her controllable, and became a core character trait throughout all her subsequent appearances.
- The issue reprints Fantastic Four #133 (January 1973, written by Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, art by Ramona Fradon and Joe Sinnott), Thundra's first appearance, providing in-book historical context.
- Parker named the character Lyra after Princess Lyra from Savage Tales #1, the story that introduced the Femizons — the fictional precursors to Thundra's Sisterhood civilization.
- Lyra's debut earned enough reader response to generate a follow-up in Hulk Family: Green Genes #1 (February 2009) and then a solo four-issue limited series, All New Savage She-Hulk (2009), written by Fred Van Lente.
- Lyra appeared as an alternate unlockable costume for Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (wearing her Frightful Four uniform) in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, extending her reach beyond print comics.
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