[6] Of his childhood art and comics influences, he said in 2002, "I really loved the Disney stuff, Donald Duck and characters like that.

[8] There, Trimpe recalled in 2002, instructor and longtime comics artist Tom Gill needed a student "to ink his backgrounds and stuff.

So that's how I started, at Dell [Comics], doing mostly Westerns and also licensed books, like the adaptation of the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth.

We supplied aviation weather support to the First Air Cavalry Division based in the central highlands in Viet Nam.

Upon his discharge in October 1966, he learned that fellow SVA classmate John Verpoorten was working at Marvel Comics' production department, and .

said they were hiring freelance people, and I should come up to the office and show my work to Sol Brodsky, who was Stan [Lee]'s right-hand man at the time.

I would primarily run the 'stat' machine and wouldn't be seated at a desk, but I would be able to pick up some freelance pencilling and inking.

[12] In the 1960s, during the period known as the Silver Age of Comics, Trimpe was assigned to pencil what became his signature character, the Hulk.

[13] Among the characters co-created by Trimpe during his run on the title were Jim Wilson in issue #131 (Sept. 1970)[14] and Doc Samson in #141 (July 1971).

"[17] Trimpe co-created nearly all of the characters introduced during his run on The Incredible Hulk, with Wolverine being a rare exception.

[13] He said that he devised the military unit the Hulkbusters, which became a regular element of The Incredible Hulk: [The series' writers] came up with the major concepts.

[10]Trimpe also had a year's run on The Defenders (#68–81, February 1979 – March 1980), a superhero-team comic featuring the Hulk.

[18] He also drew the cover, featuring the Hulk, of the 1971 issue of Rolling Stone containing a major profile of Marvel Comics.

[19] The artist in 2002 recalled a less-than-smooth start to his Hulk tenure: "I did, like, three or four pages, and Stan [Lee] saw them and made Frank Giacoia do the layouts [for Trimpe's fourth issue, #109, Nov. 1968].

[20] Captain Britain was introduced by Chris Claremont and Trimpe in an ongoing series published by Marvel UK.

[21] In 1976, Trimpe was one of the inkers of Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, an oversized treasury-format one-shot written and penciled by Jack Kirby.

[23] Jack Kirby's Machine Man character was revived in a 1984 limited series drawn by Trimpe.

Joe: A Real American Hero #1 (July 1982) and eight other issues, three of which he also wrote or co-wrote;[27] nearly the entire run of the 28-issue spin-off G.I.

"[10] When Marvel went bankrupt in the mid-1990s, Trimpe attended Empire State College, Hudson Valley Center, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Arts in 1997.

[10] Beginning September 8, 1999, he taught art for two years at Eldred Central School in Sullivan County, New York.

[29] Trimpe penciled BPRD: The War on Frogs (Aug. 2008) for Dark Horse Comics, and returned to his signature character by drawing the eight-page story "The Death and Life of the Abomination" in Marvel's King-Size Hulk #1 (July 2008).

[36] In late 1972, Trimpe married Marvel Comics editorial assistant and writer Linda Fite,[37] with whom he had three children.