April Sommers

First Appearance/Mention:The Incredible Hulk #208

Powers/Abilities/Skills: April has the strength of an average female.

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Connection to Bruce Banner/Hulk: April, an unemployed model, was the Superintendent of a building where Bruce was renting a room. She did show an interest in Bruce.

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

The Incredible Hulk #208: Bruce decides to start life anew and he begins by going and renting a room. April Sommers looks after the rooms for a break on her rent. She shows Bruce a vacany that just opened up. Bruce is a little thrown with how open April is. Later, as Bruce walks down the stairs to explore the neighborhood, April calls him into her room to see something on television. They see the Absorbing Man in the streets of New York after having escaped from jail. Bruce feels his heart pounding after seeing an old foe, but he manages to remain calm and not change. Suddenly, the Absorbing Man disappears.

The Incredible Hulk #209: Bruce wakes up to a normal day in his new apartment and starts an average day by fixing eggs. April walks in after having smelled the food cooking. He tells her he is going to look for a job but he doesn't know what kind. April shows Bruce her method of finding a job: taking the want adds and a pin, then close your eyes and jab the pin into the paper. Wherever it lands, that's the job you try for. Bruce comes back after a day of job rejections. April sees his glum face and tells her she called a friend and hooked him up with a job. Bruce tells you that if the job works out, with his first check, he will take her out for a steak dinner. April says she will hold him to it.

The Incredible Hulk #210: Bruce comes back to the apartment along with Doctor Druid, who needs Bruce's help. April runs up and hugs him, glad to see that Bruce is alive after she saw the Absoring Man attacking the construction site Bruce was working at. He introduces Dr. Druid to her and the two go up to Bruce's apartment to discuss how Bruce can help Dr. Druid. April realizes exactly how little she knows about Bruce and how much she needs to find out.

The Incredible Hulk #213: April sits in her apartment and watches news on the television about a battle the Hulk is having. She hears someone going upstairs and assumes it's Bruce coming home. She goes up there to see him because she wanted to ask him some questions. When she gets up there, see doesn't see anybody.

The Incredible Hulk #214: Bruce and Jim Wilson sneak into Bruce's apartment so that Bruce doesn't have to answer any questions from April. They get to his room to find the former tenant there. They argue until April comes in and tells the former tenant that he still owes her a lot of money. Then April asks about Jim who Bruce says is a guest. April says she still hasn't decided if she is going to throw Bruce out or not. Bruce gets excited and can feel himself starting to change. Jim helps get everyone out of the apartment as Bruce jumps through a window to the ground, changing into the Hulk as he falls.

The Incredible Hulk #215: Bruce and Jim walk back to his apartment to find April and the old tenant arguing on the front stoop. April wonders what Bruce is doing out when he kicked everyone out before because he was sick. As he explains himself, suddenly a beam comes out of nowhere and pulls him into the sky.

The Incredible Hulk #221: Bruce gets back to his apartment after a long adventure as the Hulk. April sees him adn runs into her apartment and locks the door. Needless to say, Bruce is confused. He goes to see Jim, who is staying in his apartment, and Jim lets Bruce know that he told April that Bruce is really the Hulk. Bruce goes down to April's apartment and convinces April that he has gotten control over the transformations. Suddenly, Stingray, out of his costume, comes and tells Bruce he has to turn himself in. Bruce says no way and gets into a fight. Stingray shoots at Bruce but Jim gets in the way and takes the blast. Bruce gets mad and turns into the Hulk. After the fight, April and Jim watch the Hulk jump away.

The Incredible Hulk #223: April and Jim argue with a repair man over a door replacement. The man says he will take the door if he isn't paid. Neither April nor Jim have the money but suddenly the old tenant shows up and has the money to pay the bill. April takes the rest of the money to pay the backrent as Jim and the old tenant leave.