Hulk emerges from under the ground. He just remembers a big explosion (previous issue) and wonders the icy Soviet territory until eventually coming across a blind girl named Katrina. As they chat amicably, her family appears and Sergi, her father, shots the Hulk in fear. Fortunately, Katrina quells the Hulk's temper before things get out of control. Doctor Anton Palkov, Katrina's grandfather, mentions that the Hulk could help them against evildoers frightening their village, called Trenka. Hulk accepts to help Katrina's folks and is invited for dinner.
Palkov later brings the Hulk into his lab where he is trying to find a cure for blindness. Hulk likes that and then gets some rest. But he wakes up with the arrival of little pale men. After fighting some, he follows the rest into a cave where he is ambushed by many more. Unfortunately, he gets knocked by gas. When the Hulk wakes up, he is facing the Mole Man!
The subterranean villain reveals that Palkov found a cure for blindness using a unique flora that blooms once in a hundred years. But he wants to apply it into himself to stop depending on his radar-senses. The miracle treatment is in a syringe. Remembering Katrina, Hulk breaks free and recovers the syringe before facing his enemies. As expected, Hulk defeats them, destroys the entire place and gets out to safety. What's strange and a reason to celebrate is that the syringe made it out in one piece!
Palkov treats his granddaughter with the cure and as she begins to see, the Hulk pleads not to look at him since he is "big and ugly". But Katrina insists, she has known the Hulk as a tender, compassionate man with a good soul, and when her eyes clear, she sees a good looking, fair skin man, not the monstrosity everyone else sees. She kisses Hulk on the cheek. This troubles the monster who without greeting, walks out the door to walk the icy area in loneliness, once again. His childish mind felt it wasn't right to stay, not with her, because she saw him as a man, a gentle, strong, man. But Hulk knows himself well and honestly believes, even if it pains him to tears, that he is just a monster, not a man, a true monster, nothing more and nothing less.