David and Laura's was a deep and abiding love (though one that did not produce any children). David had a personal reason for conducting this particular research, because he had lost his wife, Laura, in a car accident from which David was unable to save her. His classmate there was Elaina Marks-who years later became his colleague at The Culver Institute in California, where they were engaged in intense research aimed at unraveling the mystery of the enormous physical strength that all humans possess, but of which the typical person uses only 20 percent. for the death of his mother, Elizabeth, whom David had found passed away in her bed when he was a child.ĭavid did attend medical school. David had allowed resentment and anger to simmer for years toward his father, because David blamed D.W. David, at 18, had even more incentive, though, to attend university someplace far away from Trevorton (always keeping in mind that his eventual goal was, of course, medical school). David, though, had always wanted to be a doctor, something his family knew about him ever since he was five years old, when David's sister, Helen, caught him performing surgery on one of her favorite dolls. went so far as to tell David that he would pay his son's entire way through any agricultural college of his choice.

Banner, wanted David to stay on the family farm and take it over from him someday-D.W. David Banner was born in Trevorton, Colorado, in the first half of the 1940s.

The character appears in 82 episodes of the series (although the actor actually filmed 81 episodes) and the three post-series TV movies, The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988), The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) and The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990).ĭr. David Bruce Banner is the lead character in The Incredible Hulk TV series (1978–82), and was played by Bill Bixby. David Banner as he begins to metamorphose into the Hulkĭr.

The Incredible Hulk by Peter David