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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #131 (September 1970) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas (writer) Herb Trimpe (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Full name | James Wilson |
| Species | Human |
| Team affiliations | Corporation |
| Supporting character of | Hulk |
| Notable aliases | Jimbo |
James "Jim"Wilson is a fictional character, asupporting character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. He is a supporting character of theHulk.
He was portrayed by P.J. Kerr in a cameo in the 2008Marvel Cinematic Universe filmThe Incredible Hulk.
Created byRoy Thomas andHerb Trimpe, the character made his first appearance inThe Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #131 (September 1970) as an angry young man who befriends theHulk.[1] During the late 1970s, he became a regular supporting character of the series, usually appearing as a friend of Bruce Banner.[2] He was a replacement forRick Jones, who had becomeCaptain Marvel's sidekick.[3]
InThe Incredible Hulk #232 (February 1979), it is revealed that Jim Wilson is the nephew of Sam Wilson, the superheroFalcon. Though this revelation occurred whenRoger Stern was writing the series, Stern says that earlierIncredible Hulk writerLen Wein came up with the idea that they were related and did not address it during his run.[4]
Wilson was dropped from the series by 1980, and did not return untilThe Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 #388 (December 1991), in which it is revealed that Wilson wasHIV-positive. He dies of complications fromAIDS inThe Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 #420 (August 1994).
James "Jim" Wilson grew up inHarlem and wanted to travel where he was often at odds with his father Gideon Wilson who worked as a Catholic minister. Wilson enlistsRick Jones to play a benefit concert at a hospice forAIDS patients. On the drive from the airport, Wilson reveals to Jones that he isHIV-positive and that his girlfriend left him. Wilson is injured while protecting Jefferson Wolfe from the assassinSpeedfreek at the charity concert. Hulk rushes Wilson to a hospital. Jones and Hulk later secure evidence to send the mob boss who employed Speedfreek to prison.[5]
Wilson is again seen inThe Incredible Hulk #420 (August 1994), in which he is attacked by a mob protesting the fact that a court has ordered an HIV-infected boy to be allowed into a public school. This is an analogy toRyan White, where parents and teachers inHoward County, Indiana, lobbied against his school attendance before he died in April 1990.[6] Hulk rescues Wilson from the mob and takes him to the Mount, the secret headquarters of thePantheon. He learns that Wilson hasPneumocystis pneumonia and does not have long to live. Remembering theblood transfusion that the Hulk gave his cousin Jennifer Walters, which turned her intoShe-Hulk, Wilson asks Bruce Banner to give him a transfusion of his blood, which he hopes will cure him. Banner initially refuses to take the risk of creating another monster, but eventually pretends to give Wilson a blood transfusion. Wilson reveals in private to Dr. Harr, the physician caring for him, that he was not fooled by Banner's ruse, but played along anyway. Shortly afterward, Wilson succumbs to the disease and dies.[7] Following this, Banner donates money to the hospice that Wilson worked at to allow them to comfortably exist for the next few decades.
Gideon Wilson inexplicably blames the Hulk for Jim's death and joinsGamma Corps to seek revenge.[8] However, he ultimately admits to himself and the Hulk that he only blamed the Hulk for his son's death to avoid facing his guilt for his failures as a father.[volume & issue needed]
Jim Wilson appears inThe Incredible Hulk, portrayed by P.J. Kerr.[9]
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