The Incredible Hulk #3

Thunderbolt Ross tricks Rick Jones into thinking that the USA needs the Hulk to test a new rocket. Rick returns to the underground chamber as the Hulk breaks through the door!

The Hulk chases Rick; he’s angry but fortunately for Rick, slow. Rick reaches the rocket, Hulk follows him into the ship’s capsule. Jones exits, and Ross orders the rocket to launch, shooting the Hulk to space!

When in orbit, sunlight transforms the Hulk into Bruce Banner, and the rocket experiences a sudden rain of cosmic rays. At that moment, Rick uses a control panel to change the rocket’s course and bring it back to Earth. The rocket releases a strange discharge from it, which hits Rick through the control panel. The rocket crashes into a deserted area.

Since it’s daylight, Rick realizes Hulk had turned into Banner, and believes to have killed his friend. Rick goes to the crashing point, but it is the Hulk coming out of the rocket, in plain daytime, the first time this occurs!

Rick now fears for his life, but the cosmic rays and the discharge he received created some kind of bond between the Hulk and him. The monster is now under the complete control of Rick. However, only when Rick is awake.

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