Hulk recalls how he was always trapped
inside Bruce Banner and how the mysterious benefactor (to be revealed
in issue #5) separated him from Banner and how for the first time in
his life he was free....
Hulk returns to his underground refuge
to resume his peaceful life among the Moloids—but he discovers that
the Moloid children have been abducted by a pair of monsters. Hulk
catches up with the gamma-irradiated boar men called 26 and 27 who
are planning to kill him and make their father (Banner) happy. The
resulting battle registers on seismographs and causes the ground to
collapse all around the world. As 26 and 27 fall down a massive hole
in the earth they tell Hulk Banner's people will follow him and take
away everything he has...which is not much, is it? Brooding on this
parting shot from his foes, Hulk returns the kidnapped children to
the Moloids. The Moloid ruler asks Hulk to join them on the journey
to a new, deeper home; Hulk declines and hurls a rock to close up the
tunnel after they have all departed. Hulk now knows there is only one
way to be truly free—he returns to Amanda von Doom and her Mad
Squad to join their mission to kill Bruce Banner....
Banner learns (from an intelligent but
mute monkey) that 26 and 27 are missing and assumes (wrongly) that
they have deserted him. An alarm signals the arrival of an intruder,
a spider-like probe from the Mad Squad. Banner destroys it as his
gamma-irradiated giant animals line the beach, waiting for the
arrival of the enemy....
Epilogue: 26 and 27, both now deaf
and/or blind are trapped in a sea of lava, unable to find one
another....