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Guillermo del Toro's exemplary "Frankenstein" uses the Creature's (Jacob Elordi) titanic strength for some serious action spectacle. In the film's opening, he storms iceberg-lodged ship the Horisont searching for his creator (Oscar Isaac). Then as the film ends, he pushes the Horisont single-handedly free from its icy prison, a heroic feat that frames the Creature as a Superman-like savior ... or, on his best days, Marvel Comics' the Hulk.

Marvel Comics as we know it began in 1960 when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the Fantastic Four. Striking gold with a team of superheroes who spent a lot of time squabbling, Lee & Kirby went even more unconventional with their next creation: the Hulk, hated and feared by humans and who

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