Issue(s): Hulk #141
Published Date: Jul 71
Title: "His name is... Samson!"
Credits:
Roy Thomas - Writer
Herbe Trimpe - Penciler
John Severin - Inker

Review/plot:
First appearance of Doc Samson, and what an ass he is!

Granted he turns Betty Ross from a block of glass back into a real girl (somehow, Samson figured out that he could do so using the Hulk's gamma radiation, even though he's a psychologist - and no explanation as to why General Ross would come to Samson in the first place - did he think Betty's problems were only in her mind?).

But then he turns the Hulk's radiation on himself...

...steal's Bruce's girl, picks a fight with the Hulk (and gets trounced)...

...and generally acts like an arrogant prick. Some psychiatrist.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 5 - first Doc Samson

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• Ross was turned into a glass statue via a blood transfusion from the Sandman in Hulk #138.

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: Marvel Super Heroes #91

Considering this is the same company that had their scientist characters do utterly ridiculous things in their early days that they shouldn't (need I remind you of Donald Blake making a synthetic man?), I could sort of believe Leonard Samson doing research of the effects of gamma radiation on the side of his psychological studies. Yeah he's a psychologist but even he needs a hobby...I think.