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IndexCulture & MediaNo. 8 emerging

The Immortal Hulk

Marvel comic book series

31×
vs its own baseline
24×
year on year
+48.7%
per month, last 90 days
83
confidence / 100
19 896 1,773 2,650 where it used to sit Sep 24 Feb 25 Jun 25 Nov 25 Apr 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 839% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

9.39×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

36%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

18%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.94× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

2071 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

The Immortal Hulk is an American superhero horror comic book series written by Al Ewing, primarily penciled by Joe Bennett, and published by Marvel Comics. The series follows the various dissociative identities, or "alters," of Bruce Banner as they grapple with the discovery that gamma-irradiated beings such as the Hulk are unable to…

Excerpt from The Immortal Hulk on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

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