Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible Facts About Comic Book Writer Stan Lee. Born on this day in 1. Louisa May Alcott led a fascinating life. Besides enchanting millions of readers with her novel Little Women, she worked as a Civil War nurse, fought against slavery, and registered women to vote. In honor of her birthday, here are 1. Alcott. 1. SHE HAD MANY FAMOUS FRIENDS. Louisas parents, Bronson and Abigail Alcott, raised their four daughters in a politically active household in Massachusetts. As a child, Alcott briefly lived with her family in a failed Transcendentalist commune, helped her parents hide slaves who had escaped via the Underground Railroad, and had discussions about womens rights with Margaret Fuller. Throughout her life, she socialized with her fathers friends, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Although her family was always poor, Alcott had access to valuable learning experiences. She read books in Emersons library and learned about botany at Walden Pond with Thoreau, later writing a poem called Thoreaus Flute for her friend. Red Hulk could handpick teammates from any point in the time stream to assist him in battle against an opposing team put together by another Elder, the Grandmaster. The Incredible Hulk Married' title='The Incredible Hulk Married' />She also socialized with abolitionist Frederick Douglass and womens suffrage activist Julia Ward Howe. HER FIRST NOM DE PLUME WAS FLORA FAIRFIELD. As a teenager, Alcott worked a variety of teaching and servant jobs to earn money for her family. She first became a published writer at 1. For reasons that are unclear, Alcott used a pen nameFlora Fairfieldrather than her real name, perhaps because she felt that she was still developing as a writer. But in 1. 85. 4 at age 2. Alcott used her own name for the first time. 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Get up to the minute entertainment news, celebrity interviews, celeb videos, photos, movies, TV, music news and pop culture on ABCNews. SHE SECRETLY WROTE PULP FICTION. Before writing Little Women, Alcott wrote Gothic pulp fiction under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Continuing her amusing penchant for alliteration, she wrote books and plays called Perilous Play and Paulines Passion and Punishment to make easy money. Alcott wrote about cross dressers, spies, revenge, and hashish. LUYZBw/TgoH1tmNPMI/AAAAAAAAE7k/e04vsbWlWqA/s1600/Incredible+Hulk+foreign+poster+bill+bixby+lou+ferrigno+marvel+comics+1977+1.jpg' alt='The Incredible Hulk Married' title='The Incredible Hulk Married' />These sensational, melodramatic works are strikingly different than the more wholesome, righteous vibe she captured in Little Women, and she didnt advertise her former writing as her own after Little Women became popular. SHE WROTE ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE AS A CIVIL WAR NURSE. In 1. 86. 1, at the beginning of the U. The Incredible Hulk Married' title='The Incredible Hulk Married' />S. Civil War, Alcott sewed Union uniforms in Concord and, the next year, enlisted as an army nurse. In a Washington, D. C. hotel turned hospital, she comforted dying soldiers and helped doctors perform amputations. During this time, she wrote about her experiences in her journal and in letters to her family. In 1. 86. 3, she published Hospital Sketches, a fictionalized account, based on her letters, of her stressful yet meaningful experiences as a wartime nurse. The book became massively popular and was reprinted in 1. SHE SUFFERED FROM MERCURY POISONING. Find out why the classic The Incredible Hulk still remains Marvels best TV show of all time. After a month and a half of nursing in D. C., Alcott caught typhoid fever and pneumonia. She received the standard treatment at the timea toxic mercury compound called calomel. The Incredible Hulk Married' title='The Incredible Hulk Married' />Calomel was used in medicines through the 1. Because of this exposure to mercury, Alcott suffered from symptoms of mercury poisoning for the rest of her life. She had a weakened immune system, vertigo, and had episodes of hallucinations. To combat the pain caused by the mercury poisoning as well as a possible autoimmune disorder, such as lupus, that could have been triggered by it, she took opium. Alcott died of a stroke in 1. SHE WROTE LITTLE WOMEN TO HELP HER FATHER. In 1. 86. 7, Thomas Niles, an editor at a publishing house, asked Alcott if she wanted to write a novel for girls. Although she tried to get excited about the project, she thought she wouldnt have much to write about girls because she was a tomboy. The next year, Alcotts father was trying to convince Niles to publish his manuscript about philosophy. He told Niles that his daughter could write a book of fairy stories, but Niles still wanted a novel about girls. Niles told Alcotts father that if he could get his daughter to write a non fairy novel for girls, he would publish his philosophy manuscript. So to make her father happy and help his writing career, Alcott wrote about her adolescence growing up with her three sisters. Published in September 1. Little Women was a huge success. The second part was published in 1. Alcott went on to write sequels such as Little Men 1. Jos Boys 1. 88. SHE WAS AN EARLY SUFFRAGETTE. In the 1. 87. 0s, Alcott wrote for a womens rights periodical and went door to door in Massachusetts to encourage women to vote. In 1. 87. 9, the state passed a law that would allow women to vote in local elections on anything involving education and childrenAlcott registered immediately, becoming the first woman registered in Concord to vote. Although met with resistance, she, along with 1. The Nineteenth Amendment was finally ratified in 1. Alcott died. 8. SHE PRETENDED TO BE HER OWN SERVANT TO TRICK HER FANS. After the success of Little Women, fans who connected with the book traveled to Concord to see where Alcott grew up. One month, Alcott had a hundred strangers knock on the door of Orchard House, her familys home, hoping to see her. Because she didnt like the attention, she sometimes pretended to be a servant when she answered the front door, hoping to trick fans into leaving. ALCOTT NEVER HAD CHILDREN, BUT SHE CARED FOR HER NIECE. Although Alcott never married or had biological children, she took care of her orphaned niece. In 1. 87. 9, Alcotts youngest sister May died a month after giving birth to her daughter. As she was dying, May told her husband to send the baby, whom she named Louisa in honor of Alcott, to her older sister. Nicknamed Lulu, the girl spent her childhood with Alcott, who wrote her stories and seemed a good fit for her high spiritedness. Lulu was just 8 when Alcott died, at which point she went to live with her father in Switzerland. FANS CAN VISIT ALCOTTS FAMILY HOME IN CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS. At 3. 99 Lexington Road in Concord, Massachusetts, tourists can visit Orchard House, the Alcott family home from 1. Orchard House is a designated National Historic Landmark, and visitors can take a guided tour to see where Alcott wrote and set Little Women. Visitors can also get a look at Alcotts writing desk and the familys original furniture and paintings. Most WTF Things She Hulk Has Ever Done. Sporting an Amazonian look, more control over her ability to change, and maintaining her intelligence after transformation, She Hulk challenges the very definition of the word Hulk, presenting a pleasant contrast to the monstrous transformation of her cousin. Jennifer Walters was a shy lawyer prior to a mafia related shooting, but when Bruce Banner was the only person around with the same blood type, she became something a little more sensational practicing lawyer and superhero all rolled into one. Following the death of The Hulk in the pages of 2. Civil War II at the hands of her fellow Avenger and friend, Hawkeye, the Sensational She Hulk dropped the pronoun and became the star of Hulk a series focusing on Jennifers struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after a fight with Thanos, and grief after the death of Bruce Banner. However, the characters history wasnt always solemn and dignified. Since her first appearance in 1. She Hulk has enjoyed some great moments within the pages of Marvel Comics, thanks, in part, to writers such as Stan Lee, John Byrne, Dan Slott, and Charles Soule, but not all of those moments have been particularly wholesome or fun. Weve already looked at the most WTF things The Hulk has ever done, but now we take a look back at some of the sensational, savage, and downright weird moments in his cousins history. Here are the 1. 5 Most WTF Things She Hulk Has Ever Done. Almost Getting It On With Her Cousin. In a story that still remains cannon within She HulkHulk lore, 2. Incredible Hulk Annual by Peter Jenkins and Mark Texeria saw the thirsty green giant stuck in the throes of a gamma radiated mating ritual. When She Hulk tries to approach her cousin to calm him down, he attacks her with much more aggression than expected, leading the Vision to surmise that this, in fact, was an attempt to impress the only female of his species. She Hulk tries her best to explain that, despite her love for him, and despite the multiple beatings she received while he was in this rage, she and The Hulk can never be together that way due to their familial connection. This leads to a sad and dejected Green Goliath leaping away, and a tearful She Hulk requesting that her fellow Avengers finally leave him alone. Not this time, Hulk Actually Getting It On With Her Cousin. Well, okay. Maybe this time. It should be mentioned that this took place in the alternate reality in the 2. Old Man Logan story arc in the pages of Mark Millar and Steve Mc. Nivens Wolverine. In this reality, the villains won, and Wolverine is one of the few last surviving heroes that remains good within a supervillain version of a Mad Max type of wasteland. The deed itself is only referred to retroactively through exposition, so She Hulk doesnt actually make an appearance. Game Bird East Lancs. Readers find out that She Hulk was in fact the only one, on Earth, that Bruce Banner could realistically mate with. Bruce himself is the main antagonist of the series, and was able to remain at full, Hulk level strength without transformation. She Hulks survival after most of the heroes have perished raises a lot of questions about consent. Was she a willing participant, or did the now villainous Bruce Banner become even more monstrous than his Hulk transformation ever could beThe results of this unholy union speak for themselves a troop of green, hulked out yokels terrorizing whats left of California in a dystopian nightmare reality. Yelling At Her Own Artist. Breaking the fourth wall may be more famously attributed to Deadpool, but the mercenary was not the first character to do this. It was She Hulk who was originally known for communicating with the writers and artists of her comic, and she regularly disparages her own creative team for the choices that were being made, in both narrative and visual representation. Since She Hulks creation, fourth wall awareness has become more common in comic books, but back during the John Byrne era, Sensational She Hulk volume 1 was setting a trend unlike any other at the time. Her breaking of the fourth wall was taken to a whole new level, even by her standards, in Sensasional She Hulk 3. Byrne that the creative choice was likely to get her book cancelled. John Byrne meta before it was cool. More on She Hulks fourth wall antics later on in the list. When She Killed John Byrne To Boost Sales. Not typically something you would expect from a superhero, but the She Hulk is fine with it. In yet another tongue in cheek moment, Byrne wrote himself into his final issue of Sensational She Hulk something he had done in his previous Fantastic Four run. His final issue was celebrated by having She Hulk toss him over her head and out the window with ease. With a yipe as he is thrown, and a squoit upon landing, comic legend John Byrne was nothing but a smear on the sidewalk. She Hulk has nothing much to say on the matter itself, but she does go on to claim that death sells and the death of a super ego ought to sell at least as many copies of the death of a superman. Shots fired. Realistically, we know that Sensational She Hulk 5. John Byrne and that the decisions of She Hulk were made by him, but we like to think that the character was doing the driving in the end. Acknowledging That Her Villains Sucked. To be honest, other than fighting some of the heavy hitting villains throughout the Marvel Universe while a member of teams like The Avengers and Fantastic Four, She Hulk doesnt have a particularly strong rogues gallery. This is especially noticeable when the character herself questions the legitimacy of some of the criminals she goes up against. Sensational She Hulk 5 brought the hilariously named Doctor Bong into a new era of comic books, having made his first appearance in 1. Howard the Duck.  However, despite pre dating She Hulk, she cant help herself asking if his presence in her book was a joke. She compares the inclusion of the D list villain to the inclusion of Doctor Doom although he was taken down by Squirrel Girl once in the 5th issue of Fantastic Four, referring to Doctor Bong, rather cruelly in our opinion, as a clown. Yes, okay Were siding with the doctor on this oneDoctor Bong fell further into obscurity after his run in with She Hulk, but he did successfully move away from a life of crime and earned a Ph. D in psychology, likely spurred on by the soul crushing criticism from Miss Green. Destroying A Hotel Room With Juggernaut. And yes. its exactly what you think. In the pages of Uncanny X Men 4. She Hulk and The Juggernaut famous X Men villain trashed a hotel room with their ahem amorous activity Cain Marko, The Juggernaut, was actually going through a reformed period of heroism at the time, during Chuck Austins rather forgettable stint on Uncanny X Men. So it doesnt seem all that weird that Jen would take a shine to the big guy. Jen, known for her promiscuity while in She Hulk form, was actually hired to be his legal defense, making the whole thing a little unethical. However, as weve already seen in this list, Hulks need loving too. Dan Slott later explained away the events of Uncanny X Men 4. She Hulk and making sure that Austins inclusion of the character in the story arc had no lasting ramifications, besides some snarky jokes from her friends and colleagues.