Startling Stories: Banner (2001 series) #1

Hulk goes on a violent rampage through Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then vanishes, leaving the place looking like a combat zone. Doc Samson arrives by helicopter, sizing up the situation. Casual about the number of casualties, he decides that the official story will be that a tornado destroyed the town. Then after the President has addressed the nation, they will track down the man responsible…

…who is sitting not too far away. Bruce Banner questions why he must go through this. A medic sedates him and puts him in an ambulance. He arrives at a field hospital where he introduces himself as a doctor, specifically a physicist, offering to help. Banner learns that everyone thinks it was a tornado; he is asked where he was when it hit. He mentions he was in a flophouse when some thieves tried to rob him, one holding a pillow over his face while the other(s) went through his pockets…and then he got mad. A doctor jokes that the tornado may have saved his life…but just as he asks what a physicist was doing in a flophouse, Banner has gone.

Bruce Banner goes out to the desert, stands on a crag and asks forgiveness for what he has done and what he is about to do. He puts a stolen revolver into his mouth and squeezes the trigger….