Hulk, carrying a gravely wounded Jim Wilson, stops by a lake
and bemoans his helplessness. Then he sees military copters coming and
Thunderbolt Ross steps out from behind a rock, trying to appeal to the inner
Bruce Banner, saying they only want to help Jim. Hulk wants to smash Ross but
Jim pleads with him not to. Hulk allows his friend to be taken to a hospital.
Ross stays behind, hoping to persuade Hulk to return peacefully. But a nervous
soldier in a copter panics when he thinks Hulk might harm Ross and fires. Hulk,
thinking he has been tricked, hurls a boulder, wrecking a copter then leaps
away. Hulk reaches the West Coast and silently boards a ship, hiding himself
inside a huge crate….
The ship eventually reaches the Mediterranean, unloading the
cargo at Vastopol, seaport of the mountainous nation of Morvania, where it is
trucked to the capital. The nation is ruled by the dictator Vaclav Draxon, who
has bought weapons to further his scheme of conquering all Europe. As the
crates are unloaded at the palace, Hulk is awakened and is irritable. Draxon
asks Hulk to be his partner in his scheme of conquest but the confused giant
refuses so Draxon has his army fire upon him with every weapon they have,
blasting him though the wall and off a cliff. A very angry Hulk returns and smashes
the army and their weapons. The rest of the army is summoned; seeing them rushing
to the palace, resistance leader Isaac Maisel deduces that something momentous
is going on and hurries to assemble the other rebels….
At the palace, Hulk seizes Draxon in his hands but decides
the dictator is not worth smashing and tosses him aside before announcing his
plans to stay in the country for a while and leaping off….
In a forest clearing, Isaac’s daughter Rachel is picking
flowers by a lake when the Hulk comes upon her….