Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Bruce Banner is having a premonition of being naked and menaced by a giant green monster…when he is recalled to reality by Betty Ross. They are sitting in a diner, with Bruce complaining about how her father the General intruded into his gamma bomb experiment. Betty is more concerned about Bruce’s growing dark moods. Bruce returns to the base for the bomb test to an angry impatient General Ross. As the countdown gets underway, intern Rick Jones is spotted clowning around outside. Bruce races outside, pushing Rick to safety just as the bomb detonates. As Bruce lies recovering at the base, Ross comes to tell him to stop seeing Betty, disapproving of the revelations in Bruce’s psychological file. He also informs the scientist that the project is now under military supervision, and that Bruce is no longer required. Later, complaining to Betty over the phone, Bruce’s anger increases over the injustice (and the suspicion that Betty knew about it) until he suddenly transforms into the Hulk. That night, the Hulk appears at the base, destroying the facility and fighting off the soldiers, until he catches a glimpse of himself reflected in a window…. The next day, Bruce and his assistant survey the wreckage of the gamma ray project; Bruce leaves a farewell note for Betty and quietly disappears.