History:(Incredible Hulk I#3/3 (fb) - BTS) - Polly was the aunt of youngster Rick Jones and over time recognized Rick's stubborn nature.
POLLY
Real Name: Polly
Identity/Class: Human
Occupation: Unrevealed, if any
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Rick Jones
Enemies: None
Known Relatives: Rick Jones (nephew), unidentified sibling (see comments)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: An unidentified city in New Mexico, USA
First Appearance: Incredible Hulk I#3 (September, 1962)
Powers/Abilities: Polly has no superhuman
powers but is a caring aunt, if not a bit nosy.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'7")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 150 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (see comments)
Hair: White
History:
(Incredible Hulk I#3/3 (fb) - BTS) - Polly was the aunt of youngster
Rick Jones and over time recognized Rick's stubborn nature.
(Incredible Hulk I#3/3) - Ages after having last seen
her teenage nephew Rick, Polly was visited by Rick Jones, who hoped to
wash up and get some food at Polly's home not far from a ramshackle
cabin Rick had been staying in near the Los Diablos Missile Base.
Shocked to see Rick again after so long, Polly asked where Rick had
been but the washing Rick just told Polly he had been busy and
commented that she wouldn't be interested in the details.
Light-heartedly telling Rick to move along, Polly insisted that she
definitely was interested in the details but remarked on her knowledge
that no one could get Rick to talk if he didn't want to. Rick then
stayed to eat and chatted a bit with Polly before departing to take a
walk through town in advance of his return to his secret ally, the
incredible Hulk.15
Comments: Created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
Polly was never seen at a good enough distance and angle to determine her eye color. In her two panel appearance, she first appears at a distance, preventing her eye color from being determined, and in the second panel, she is only seen from the side, also preventing her eye color from being determined. See the two images in this profile to see what I'm talking about.
While I could understand that
Polly might not have appeared elsewhere following her only appearance
in Incredible Hulk I#3, I'm really surprised she hasn't even been
mentioned by Rick at some point after that appearance! If you know of
an issue where Polly is mentioned again, please let me know so I can
update the profile!
She's [Polly] not
visible in Incredible Hulk II#418, Rick's wedding. Doesn't mean she
couldn't be there, off panel of course, but I'd have thought that if
anyone would have remembered she existed, PAD would have, and if she
was going to show up anywhere, then that would be the event. Also, no
mention of her in any of the issues where Rick's parents are seen or
mentioned...and one of those is very pertinent, as it's Incredible Hulk
II#395, when Jackie Shorr turns up claiming that she's Rick's real
mother & that the people he thought were his parents actually
adopted him. You'd think Rick's first option to check that would be
Aunt Polly, assuming she was a sibling to one of them. So maybe she's
not really a relative (when I was growing up, my parents had friends
whom I called Aunt or Uncle despite there being no actual relationship
via blood or marriage), which might also explain why she didn't take
him in when he was orphaned (he states outright that he ended up in an
orphanage, so maybe she was one of the people who worked there). Or
maybe she passed away between Incredible Hulk I#3 and Incredible Hulk
II#395. --Loki
Knowing
how stubborn the young Rick was, I wouldn't be surprised if he was sent
to stay with Polly for a short time but ran away and was ultimately
sent to the Tempest Town facility.
It was never mentioned which side of Rick Jones' family Polly was from. If she was the sister of Rick's as-yet-unidentified father, then Polly would have a brother. If she was the sister of Rick's mother then she would obviously have a sister. Since we don't know for sure, I just listed Polly as having an unidentified sibling.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Polly should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Incredible Hulk I#3 (September, 1962) - "The Ringmaster" story - Stan
Lee (writer, editor), Jack Kirby (pencils), Dick Ayers (inks)
First posted: 08/28/2024
Last updated: 08/28/2024
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