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Dumpin' by gamma ray

Turns into the Hulk

Ain't he a glamor-ay

Trackin' the town with the power of a bull

Ain't no monster clown who is as lovable

As ever lovin' Hulk

Hulk, Hulk

Fightin' by gamma ray

A great naval task force has surrounded lonely Astra Isle

and its silent occupant, the giant Absorbatron,

which still awaits its initial test.

Far away at a southwest missile base,

its inventor, Bruce Banner, the ill-fated young scientist,

is preparing to leave for Astra Isle.

After a last-minute conference with his young friend, Rick Jones,

who shares the strange secret of his dual personality...

Dr. Banner?

What if you change into the Hulk out there?

I've got to risk it, Rick.

I can't let my work go unfinished.

But will you let me know?

Wait at the cave.

I'll radio you right after the test tomorrow.

But meanwhile, someone else is concerned with the coming test.

The leader, that green-tinted super genius,

who, like the Incredible Hulk,

gained his power through a gamma-ray accident.

There is my next prize, the Absorbatron.

Ha! Your capture will come another day, brainless one.

And its capture will take place now.

Hey! With my indestructible humanoids,

reduced to microscopic size,

yet ready to respond to a radio impulse

to enlarge and do my telepathic bidding.

They will take over the test site of my command.

And I, the leader, will possess the Absorbatron.

There, there, my little seeds of destruction.

Soon, you will be scattered like a plague

over Astra Island.

Ah, the clouds will shield my movements on the task force.

A million microscopic humanoids

settle like a pink shroud over the island,

as the leader withdraws to a safe vantage point

from which to activate his deadly pirate horde.

But meanwhile, Bruce Banner is approaching Astra Island.

Accompanied by Major Glenn Talbot,

the man who has dedicated himself

to proving that Dr. Banner is an enemy agent

who shares some strange alliance with the Incredible Hulk.

Okay, we're here.

Just remember, Banner, I got myself appointed to this mission

because I still think you're a security risk.

But what is this strange powdery substance?

Don't try any tricks, mister.

I'm just looking for a chance to slap you in a cell.

Come on, let's get below.

I still don't like it.

And even as they seal themselves

within the Absorbitron control chamber,

the powdery substance begins to expand,

to grow and grow.

I thought you said we'd be alone on the island.

Right.

No one could have landed so quickly.

I'll go up and check.

Go, my slaves, go!

Seize! Seize the Absorbitron!

Let nothing stop you, my loyal vassals!

Stay back!

Your rubber goals will stop you!

Whoa!

The leader's humanoid!

Capture Dr. Banner!

Or destroy him!

Seize the Absorbitron!

No!

You're not going to get it!

Banner's meager strength is not enough.

His heartbeat braces, his pulse pounds,

and the frail body of the young scientist changes

with thundering force into...

the Incredible Hulk!

Nobody attacks Hulk!

The Hulk!

What luck!

I shall capture two prizes today,

the Absorbitron and the Hulk.

Release your gas vapors, my petals.

They will subdue him.

No!

Nobody stops me!

But the Hulk's great lungs cannot resist

the inexorable effect of the sleep gas.

Ha! I've succeeded beyond my wildest hopes.

Certain foreign powers will pay me

a king's ransom for the Absorbitron.

And if I can bring the Hulk's awesome strength

under my control,

I shall reign supreme in all the universe!

Like a beam of cosmic light,

the leader flashes back into the hazy veil over Astra Isle.

Meanwhile, in Dr. Banner's secret cave laboratory,

hidden in the depths of southwest Mesa,

Rick Jones waits and worries.

Sorry, Dr. Banner would have radioed me by now.

If the test was successful, something's happened.

I just know it.

Maybe he's changed once more into the Hulk.

If Rick only knew,

not only has Bruce Banner changed to the Hulk,

but he is being captured by the leader.

Clearing skies reveal a strange scene to the task force.

Look! Those figures on the island!

And even as a thousand eyes stare helplessly from the ships,

the Absorbitron rises,

while the humanoid horde melts into nothingness.

Dumbfounded observers watch the Absorbitron

wafted away before their eyes,

and above it, another object is caught

in the departing ship's magnetic beam.

It's the Incredible Hulk!

Knock him out of the sky!

Get that aircraft! Fire everything we've got!

But the Hulk is already too far away,

a helpless prisoner of the diabolical leader.

What will his fate be?

Gunners of the Astra Isle task force

finally abandon their futile efforts

to bring down the fantastic target.

A landing party searches for Dr. Banner and Major Talbot.

Major Talbot, where's Dr. Banner?

Gone. He escaped from me again.

Then he must have been in the ship we fired at.

Ship? A strange aircraft towing the Absorbitron.

He got away with the Absorbitron?

Completely.

They lifted it right off its base.

They?

He had the Hulk with him, following his ership.

So they do work together. I knew it.

One is never far from the other.

They won't get away with it.

A radar is sure to track their flight.

Meanwhile, in Banner's hidden cave laboratory,

Rick Jones is still waiting

for the scientist's promised radio message.

Oh, I hope he hasn't changed into the Hulk again.

Rick fails to see the strange objects

in the sky behind him.

Settling into a camouflaged opening

in an isolated plateau.

Soon, within that hidden lair,

the Hulk is under the leader's controlled observation.

Now I can keep him unconscious

simply by regulating the flow of gas he inhales.

My recording instruments will transcribe

the encephalographic patterns of his brain.

His heartbeat, blood pressure,

nothing shall be hidden from me.

I must learn how to duplicate his great strength,

or at least how to control it.

Skin, amazing!

So tough that my X-ray devices can't even register from me.

I'll have to get some stronger penetrating material

from my supply lab.

But as the leader leaves the chamber,

an unexpected side effect of his sleep gas occurs.

The Hulk begins to awaken.

The same gas, which kept the green-tinted Goliath asleep

and helpless, has also slowed his heartbeat,

transformed his body chemistry so that once more,

the brilliant, tortured Bruce Banner is reborn

with shocked memories of what has happened.

Captured by the leader!

And so far, he doesn't even suspect that I'm the Hulk.

Oh, oh, that sleep gas!

I'm lucky I shed most of it during my body transformation.

Gotta move fast.

In his end, the Absorbitron will be a threat to all mankind.

I've got to reach the army somehow.

Maybe I can transmit a Morse code message

by modifying this high-frequency gear.

Luckily, the desperate warning is heard.

B, A, and Banner!

Oh my gosh, he's signaling from someplace near here.

It also reaches the southwest missile base,

where Major Talbot is conferring with General Thunderbolt Ross.

They will radar-track him to this area, General.

I'll find him. I'll scour the desert. I'll...

Hello? What?

A signal from Banner? Huh?

Scramble or not, if it's from Banner, track it.

Major, I want this entire missile command assembled and rolling.

Yes, sir.

In his search for the signal's origin,

Rick Jones reaches a vantage point.

Oh, no. The whole missile command?

[

Oh, no. Not the gas.]

But instead of causing sleep,

the double quantity is triggering violent chemical changes

within Bruce Banner.

And once more, he becomes the host.

What have I done?

No one captures Hulk.

Stay back. Keep away from the Absorbatron.

But I have to.

Leader must never get Absorbatron.

Into the cauldron of fire comes Major Talbot,

with men of the missile command. Guns roar.

Did that last at Hulk?

And they destroyed the Absorbatron. Why?

And where's Banner?

Don't shoot him. No!

We haven't even found Banner yet, kid.

So far, we just got the Hulk.

The Hulk? Where? Where?

Rick plunges into the smoldering wreckage,

seeking but hearing what he may find.

The smoking ruins of the underground lab reveal...

No sign of the Hulk or his accomplice banner.

But look at what those traitors did to the Absorbatron.

No, Dr. Banner wouldn't.

He's a saboteur for some enemy power.

Nah. I'd like to tell the fool,

but wisdom dictates a quiet retreat.

The boy? Pawn?

After him, we must be in on this tool.

Back to his hidden cave. That's where he'll head.

What? In the cave?

The Hulk with only his scratches

where bullets bounced off his incredible skin

remembers the destroyed Absorbatron.

Leader to blame, Hulk find and destroy evil little man.

At the moment, his quarry is safe in another underground lab,

troubled only by the complaints of certain customers.

Bah! Forget the destroyed Absorbatron.

It was only a defense weapon.

And I can offer you now, for a mere billion dollars,

the greatest offensive weapon ever created.

To prove it, I will destroy the missile base within the hour.

Meanwhile, Rick at the cave...

He's gone. Where can he be?

In search of the leader. That's where.

Ha! They will pay double after this demonstration.

And once I've collected,

I'll turn my deadly engine of destruction on them as well.

The entire world will bow to an army of giants,

and subject to my telepathic commands alone.

Now, slave, to the great Southwest missile base.

Destroy it completely.

Walk right through the mountain.

Nothing can stop you!

Control planes!

Show them!

They cannot hurt you!

Even heavy artillery fire fails to stop the monstrous,

humbling behemoth.

Wow!

Even the hulk's slow brain is sparked by the sight.

Evil giant serves leader, now for my revenge!

But as the hulk leaps, battered yet never-beaten ground forces

call for a missile attack.

Two titanic trajectories collide,

and the hulk ends up in the giant's gargantuan grasp.

Earth, no!

It's the hulk! Don't let him go!

Hold him!

Nobody can hold hulk like insect hulk must be free!

That's the rules this his banner's doing.

His brain-tinted ally is deflecting our missile,

while the giant throws him back out of our reach.

At least we have the giant's unity.

It's the super missiles!

It's uncarried!

How much punishment can it endure?

We'll have to use our Sunday punch!

Right, sir!

Holding up, M472!

Wow! It's the super missile!

Coordinate computer countdown.

All personnel below ground.

The hulk! He's coming back!

We'll get them both for the same missile.

It's him. No!

Look out!

It's too late! The blast wave!

General, I'm sure I saw that boy run out.

Ridiculous!

The smoke is clearing.

They've downed it and destroyed the hulk.

Now I'll never learn the secret of his strength.

Ah!

But neither will he ever thwart my dreams of conquest again.

And this time, the leader may be right.

Dr. Banner, I'm sorry it had to end like this.

Banner!

Forget him, Major Talbot.

If Banner's watching us, he must realize we'll get him too,

just as surely as we got the hulk.

As for the giant, he'll answer to me for this too.

And abode in its body, just tons of foam rubber.

We're not well. We have nothing else.

We can't stuff a lot of mattresses.

But meanwhile, for the battered body of young Rick...

Oh, too much.

The near lifeless boy touches a small part of the hulk's brutish memory,

an almost vanished trace of Bruce Banner.

The violent heart slows its beat.

Oh, Rick, Rick, I'll go back there and make them believe me for your sake.

Great, Rick. But you were...

I thought, when you changed back, Dr. Banner, I felt it.

New strength from somewhere, it radiated from the hulk.

Yeah, sort of like catching a share of the miracle that brought back a friend.

Dr. Banner, jumping by down the race, turns into the hulk.

Ain't he unglamorate, blanking the sound with the power of a hulk?

Ain't no monster crowned who is as lovable as ever lovin' hulk.

Hunk, hunk.