The Thing protested the Hulk getting his own TV series in the late ... And Stan told me, "well, actually he started out grey, and then our printer came to us" - not the publisher, but the printer ...
As with The Thing, his skin color and grotesque stature were to be his unique defining features, as the Hulk would also have to do without any spandex outfit or cape. Stan Lee picked gray for the Hulk ...