Marlo Chandler

Marlo Chandler is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Peter David, she first appeared in The Incredible Hulk 2nd Volume (September 1988) and became an ongoing supporting character, first in the above mentioned book and later in the Captain Marvel series published between 1999 – 2004. She is married to Rick Jones (a perennial sidekick to the Incredible Hulk) and was a best friend to Betty Ross, the wife of Hulk's alter ego Bruce Banner. Marlo is also depicted as the human host of Lady Death. In keeping with her introduction during a storyline in which the Hulk was involved with organized crime, Marlo's name combines the surnames of fictional detective Philip Marlowe (with the spelling changed to Marlo, a top-1000 name for girls born in the 1960s and 1970s) and his creator Raymond Chandler. Fictional character biography Marlo first appears as an aerobics and swimming instructor and as a love interest for the casino security enforcer "Joe Fixit", who was in reality the believed-dead Hulk living incognito. His true identity was unknown to Marlo. She leaves him after seeing him appear to commit a brutal murder but, after the Hulk reaches out to her in a rare display of emotion, their relationship ends in a more amicable way. She later appears as the girlfriend of Rick Jones, who is Hulk's sidekick and best friend to the Hulk's alter ego Bruce Banner. She had met Rick while he was on a book tour promoting his memoir, Sidekick. It is only when Rick, not knowing of Marlo's previous relationship with the Hulk, introduces her to Bruce and Betty, that Marlo discovers that Mr. Fixit was really the Hulk, and that Bruce is not merely Mr. Fixit's friend but his alter ego.