After a rampage that destroys an airplane, Bruce Banner finds himself at the site of his alma mater, Desert State University. Banner locates his former mentor, Dr. Herbert Weller, in case the Hulk’s prior rampage had damaged the university and its teachers.
Banner approaches one of his former classmates and fellow experts in gamma radiation research, Dr. Raoul Stoddard. After learning that Dr. Weller is alive and well, Banner proposes to Stoddard to help him eliminate the Hulk, and Stoddard accepts. The two leave in Stoddard’s car to an underground gamma ray research station he and Weller created, unaware of a military spy plane monitoring their movements.
Once in the facility, Banner and Stoddard prepare the gamma devices. As radiation bathes Banner, the experience reminds him of when he exposed himself to the gamma bomb. When the session ends, Banner is terrified to learn that the device actually separated him from the Hulk, becoming two different individuals!
Hulk, realizing the one he hates the most, Bruce Banner, is standing next to him, threatens to destroy him. Banner flees in Stoddard’s car, but the Hulk destroys the road in front of him! When the Hulk is about to grab Banner, military planes strike, forcing the monster to turn and face them.
General Thunderbolt Ross expresses surprise upon seeing that both the Hulk and Banner separated, and rescues the scientist while the Hulk remains engaged in a fight.
Hulk, realizing that Banner has escaped him, goes on a rampage. The path of destruction is heading in Ross and Banner direction. General Ross theorizes there is a link between Hulk and Banner and the latter can sense the monster’s whereabouts.
Banner believes that the only solution is to re-merge with the Hulk. Suddenly, the monster breaks into the room. Banner sneaks past the Hulk and drives back to Stoddard’s underground research facility, who claims he can merge the two and trap the Hulk forever inside Banner.
But at the last moment, Stoddard realizes that if Banner gets cured, he will go back to being second fiddle on gamma ray research. He grabs a neutrino gun, believing shooting Banner will also destroy the Hulk.
The Hulk smashes through the walls of the facility, prompting Stoddard to urge the Hulk to kill Banner like the Hulk wanted. But Bruce tricks the Hulk into thinking it is a trap, compelling him to smash Banner another time. The Hulk leaps away as military soldiers enter the facility and arrest Stoddard, leaving Banner and Ross to ponder their next move.
Also in this story: Glenn Talbot, Betty Ross.
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