Hulk: Smash Everything (2026 series) #1

Dr. Strange is spending a quiet day in his Sanctum Sanctorum when he hears Wong panicking. He steps through a portal to find Wong, in the street outside, fighting the Hulk. Hulk says, “Hulk smash strange doctor!” Wong explains that the Hulk simply showed up intending to attack the house. They try clouding Hulk’s mind but it doesn’t work, his focus being so intense. Strange enters the astral plane and discovers what led up to this moment….

It was Samuel Sterns, the Leader, who devised a brilliant plan for world domination and it only required thee objects he didn’t have. And he needed a weapon to make it all work so he chose the Hulk. Leader disguised himself as Dr. Strange, attended a science lecture given by Bruce Banner, clouted the scientist in the head and led the enraged Hulk back to the Sanctum Sanctorum. And so, as Strange and Wong are fighting Hulk, the villain sneaks into the Sanctum and takes the Ring of Zona which he uses to teleport himself into Doctor Doom’s treasure chambers to acquire the time platform….

Meanwhile, Hulk is tearing the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak off when Dr. Strange comes up with the perfect solution. He opens a portal of his own and lures Hulk into it, sending him to Doom’s treasure chambers and the Leader. After dodging Hulk for a few minutes, Leader tricks Hulk into landing on the time portal, sending him back to prehistoric times…

…where Hulk fights off a pack of velociraptors…until the asteroid arrives….