With vigorous promotion from three corporate giants and the up-and-coming Dream Company, Kraft's Mechanical Prosthetics soon spread throughout New York.
Since Kraft had to personally make the core components that connected to the nerves, even the considerable stock he had built up before sales began could only meet demand in the New York area for the time being.
Besides, few cities other than New York suffered supervillain attacks or alien invasions every other day.
Kraft's main goal in doing all this was to help his old neighbors in Chinatown, so he did not particularly care about expanding production. Besides, not everyone could afford even the most basic version.
Originally, Kraft had wanted to fit his Chinatown neighbors with Mechanical Prosthetics for free, but Martin Lee talked him out of it. People resented inequality more than scarcity, and doing that would only bring more hostility down on the already targeted Chinese community.
To make it less obvious, Martin suggested holding a charitable raffle or offering discounts. They could quietly control who benefited, of course, but they could not choose only Chinese residents of Chinatown.
Not wanting to complicate matters further, Kraft reluctantly swallowed his objections and went along with it. Inadvertently, it boosted the Dream Company's public reputation even more.
Meanwhile, there had also been some progress with Dr. Banner.
After all, they had gathered scientific geniuses like Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, and Harry Osborn, along with Kraft Lee, whose cheat-like abilities defied science. With a group like that working on a single problem, it would have been absurd if they had achieved nothing.
Dr. Banner's biggest problem was actually his rejection of Hulk. As he gradually adjusted his mindset and began actively communicating with Hulk, the connection between them slowly deepened.
However, Dr. Banner's loathing of Hulk was