An accidental overdose of gamma radiation creates a mutation in David Banner's DNA, and, whenever he becomes angry, it causes him to metamorphose into a seven foot, 338-pound, green hulking creature. A reporter, Jack McGee, begins investigating claims of a giant monster; his investigation leads to Banner's laboratory. An explosion in the lab kills friend Elaina Marks; McGee, who dubs the creature "the Hulk", believes the Hulk killed David too. Unable to explain the truth, nor control his transformations, David leaves to try and find a cure for himself.
With the world believing him to be dead, David Banner is on the run, trying to find a way to be cured of his transformations into the Hulk. Meanwhile, David lands a job at a ranch, where he befriends a young heiress. He notices that the woman is being given a questionable drug by her physician. He then overhears a plot to kill her so that her stepmother could gain an inheritance; he also learns that the recent death of the young woman's father was no accident. Now, David must get the heiress to safety before it is too late.
After a boxer named Rocky rescues David from muggers, Rocky gets David a job at his gym. David tries to help Rocky when he discovers that their boss is a drug dealer and using the unknowing Rocky to deliver the goods.
While working at a zoo, David finds a female scientist doing genetic research, which could help him stop his unwanted transformations into the Hulk.
After a transformation as the Hulk, David awakens in a room with a dead model and fears he may have killed her.
David discovers a murder plot while working in a Time Square arcade, where the owner is being extorted to pay for protection.
David boards a flight to visit another doctor whom he thinks has information that might help him with his problem. But, when the pilot and stewardess drugs the rest of the crew in an attempt to bail out of the airplane with stolen property, David and a young boy named Kevin try to land the jetliner.
While working in a casino, David helps a Las Vegas reporter with a gambling scandal, only to discover that the reporter is Jack McGee's partner.
While working for a female trucker, David is involved in her quest for revenge against the hijacker that stole her fathers rig.
David helps a pregnant woman, and on their way to the hospital, they discover a plot to steal babies for DNA experimentation.
Banner poses as a top doctor in physics to infiltrate a research complex, in order to access some gamma-ray equipment that may just be able to cure him of his green alter ego. He is about to start the attempt of reversing his condition when an earthquake strikes, blowing his cover, causing mass destruction and devastation, and setting off an impending core melt-down.
Banner is working in a tavern on the docks in Galveston, Texas, where he befriends the owner, a Union President's widow, whose husband was killed under suspicious circumstances. The woman is being pestered by a shady businessman, running to become the new President, to endorse his election campaign and he is willing to go to any lengths necessary to win the election.
David 'Benton' travels to Hawaii to meet Dr. Carolyn Fields (Mariette Hartley), a psychologist whose technique might help control the Hulk. However, Dr. Fields is in the terminal stages of a disease that the Hulk could help cure. With the pair working in close proximity, love begins to bloom with tragic results
David 'Benton' travels to Hawaii to meet Dr. Carolyn Fields (Mariette Hartley), a psychologist whose technique might help control the Hulk. However, Dr. Fields is in the terminal stages of a disease that the Hulk could help cure. With the pair working in close proximity, love begins to bloom with tragic results.
David works at a hardware store in a resort town, where business is receding. But when an argument with the store's depressed, widowed owner, Harlan, brings on the Hulk's appearance, Harlan and his friend quickly see the possibilities of what the publicity could do for the town. So they set about re-creating their own "monster" to draw in the tourists. But the scheme ends up endangering Harlan's own young daughter.
While working at a New Mexico race track, David helps a race car driver's retarded brother.
When David learns of a vitamin that supposedly calms wild horses, he gets a job at the San Remos horse track hoping it can help him too.
David is working as a gardener in a suburban school, where he befriends a boy whom he notices is covered in bruises. The school nurse informs David that it's not the first time it's happened, and he soon suspects that one of the boy's parents is abusing him. With no-one willing to listen or help, David sets about putting the situation right himself.
David believes a Chinese philosopher's nerve control techniques can help him control the Hulk.
While working in a disco club, David tries to help a teenaged alcoholic who is being exploited.
David works for a football team, believing that the team's doctor might have a way to restrain his aggession. In the meantime, he befriends a football player who happens to have a short temper.
When David's picture is taken by a tabloid photographer, he must stop the photograph from being published.
David and a young widow are pursued by corrupt police officers who are trying to frame them for the murder of the woman's husband.
David works as a roustabout on an oil rig which happens to be the target of a saboteur.
David finds tranquility in the wilderness in Baja, Mexico. However, that is soon hindered by the arrival of a doctor running from a vengeful man whose daughter died under her care.
While working at a car wash in a black neighborhood, David befriends a co-worker who is being exploited by a drug lord.
Strange events begin to occur as David helps a young woman move back into the house where she lived as a child. He soon learns that it may have something to do with the woman's deceased twin sister, who drowned many years before.
A car accident leaves David with amnesia and his face covered in bandages, which conceal his identity from Jack McGee. And while en route to see a specialist, the plane that David and McGee are in crashes.
After surviving a plane crash in the mountains, Jack McGee and a facially bandaged David must flee the area before a forest fire threatens their lives. In the meantime, David gradually regains his memory.
In a follow-up to "Another Path," David visits his friend Li Sung to hopefully find a cure to his transformations. But the old philosopher is now dying and looking for a successor in his practices; the candidate for his leadership is a student, a police officer coping with the recent murder of his father.
When David is arrested for vagrancy, he is placed in a police van where he encounters a man who envisions himself as the deceased writer Ernest Hemmingway. But when a fight provokes David's transformation into the Hulk, our hero escapes, inadvertently freeing the mentally ill man in the process. David must help find the man before he hurts himself or someone else.
When artifacts are discovered on an indian reservation which indicate the existence of a Hulk-like being 30,000 years ago, David joins the expedition to find out if there is a link to his problem...or possibly a cure.
An inexperienced reporter is assigned to help Jack McGee with his pursuit of the Hulk; then, to McGee's dismay, she does a story about a shy man who claims to be the Hulk's alter-ego.
David 'Balin' is working as an orderly at Valley View Sanatorium. After discovering that a surgeon is using experimental mind control, he unwillingly becomes a patient himself.
David meets a vindictive "Bonnie and Clyde"-type couple who are blowing up gas stations. The stations they are targeting belong to a corporation responsible for the death of the young man's father.
A rock star who sings for a Kiss-like group becomes suicidal after one of her fans is injured during a concert performance.
An accident at a chemical warfare research station causes blindness for both David and a friend.
A gifted teenager runs away from a scientific institute, and approaches David for help in locating her mother.
David is arrested for vagrancy, and is sent to a prison camp run by a cruel warden. But when the appearance of Jack McGee prevents David from exposing the conditions of the camp to the press, his fellow inmates turn against him.
David works as the assistant of a magician, only to get mixed up in a situation involving the magician's estranged daughter and an ex-girlfriend with a questionable fiance.
As a medic for a rodeo, David discovers that an aging cowboy has a serious health condition that could prove fatal; meanwhile, the cowboy's younger brother is mixed up with a gang of cattle thieves.
David becomes a taxi driver for a cab company whose owner is on the verge of losing the business to a greedy loan shark.
While visiting his sister and father for Thanksgiving, David must help salvage the family farm from a plague and a crooked developer; in addition, he tries to resolve the bitterness between himself and his father, whom he blamed for his mother's death many years before.
After being invited to a remote island, David becomes the quarry of a psychotic hunter.
In New Orleans, David works for a young physician who tries to convince everyone that a local witch doctor is a con artist.
While working the night shift at a department store, David and his co-workers end up being held hostage by two brothers who want to rob the place.
Thanks to look-alike criminal, David becomes a victim of mistaken identity, and is pursued by the police and a vindictive gang. An attempt to leave town is hindered by Jack McGee, who is shocked to discover that David Banner might still be alive!
A new publisher takes over the National Register, and decides to rid the newspaper of any questionable stories. This new policy affects Jack McGee's search for the Hulk, so McGee is put under pressure to prove that the Hulk is real.
David is hired as a stage manager at a carnival, and learns that the sideshow's mind-reader has been blamed for a series of misfortunes.
David is befriended by a motorcyclist, who inadvertently gets him mixed up in a gang-related conflict.
The orphanage that David is working at has become a crime school, where two orphaned girls are being trained into thievery.
When David is unable to collect the money he won in a lottery, he sends a friend to collect it for him. But unfortunately, without David's consent, the friend, who is a former con artist, decides to use the money in a scheme to hopefully earn a larger profit.
A woman with psychic powers identifies David as the Hulk's alter-ego. While the Hulk is a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, the woman predicts that Jack McGee will be murdered by the real killer unless our hero intervenes.
In Atlantic City, FBI agents catch David with contraband shipments belonging to a gang of thieves, and insist that he be an informant until the gang is apprehended. David has no choice but to cooperate with both sides since both are aware of who he is; the FBI agents know that he is David Banner, while the elderly woman, who is one of the thieves, is aware that he becomes the Hulk.
A serial killer is stalking the college where David is working; then a misunderstanding leads to David's arrest. And while he figures out the real identity of the killer, the townspeople form a lynch mob.
While working at a private island owned by a spoiled heiress, David is asked to join a masquerade party which Jack McGee attends uninvited. Meanwhile, someone is out to kill the heiress.
To save the lives of a reformed gangster and a kidnapped boy, David turns to an alcoholic ex-policeman for help.
David becomes an arson suspect, and is drafted to help extinguish a forest fire.
Prometheus Part 1 of 2. After being exposed to the radiation of a meteor that had just crashed to the Earth, David's transformation back from the Hulk stops midway, leaving him half-Hulk/half human.
Prometheus Part 2 of 2. David's half-Hulk/half-human condition leads a military group called Prometheus to believe that he is an alien, so they capture him, and then send him to a lab for study.
David finds himself caught in a feud between a skydiver and the son of a crooked politician.
In one of his latest experiments, David's attempt to control the Hulk backfires. He inadvertently releases a darker personality, causing the Hulk to be more violent--and potentially capable of murder!
While working at a power plant, David survives an electrial accident that gives him the ability to foresee events--including violence by the Hulk. Meanwhile, as the plant faces possible lay-offs, David befriends a co-worker who has a heart condition.
A rival publisher of McGee's newspaper hires a mercenary to kill the Hulk.
Unbeknownst to David, the car that he is renting happens to be filled with stolen money. To make matters worse, David ends up being pursued by the thugs who are trying to fetch the loot.
A 1940s-style detective can't explain why a corpse is found in his office; except that it may be related to an extortion plot, a mysterious gardener, and a green creature.
A body-builder gets signed up in a body-building contest, only to be at odds with some questionable people who are involved in the competition.
With David's help, a woman tries to reopen her wax museum, which was nearly destroyed by a fire. But the task isn't easy, in part because the woman has hallucinations that are brought on by a questionable drug that she is taking.
Unbeknownst to David, the apartment he is renting in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood contains the gold that gangsters are seeking.
David discovers the legend of another Hulk, and investigates in the hope of creating a cure for himself.
David's attempt at a cure is hindered by the other man's exposure to radiation, which revives the murderous Hulk persona the man was cured of many years before. Now, David must produce enough antidote to cure both himself and the other man before more carnage occurs.
David survives an automobile accident, only to be paralyzed from the waist down. Therefore, he is told that he may never walk again.
A hapless reporter steals Jack McGee's latest tip on the Hulk, and ends up getting an interview with David Banner.
David travels to Baltimore where he befriends a midget wrestler who has a habit of telling tall tales. Unfortunately, one of those tales gets David in trouble with mobsters.
David attempts to help free a woman and her infant son from a gang of thieves. But one of the thieves is not willing to let that happen.
David becomes business partners with the owner of a struggling clothing factory in New York City. Unfortunately, however, the promotion spells trouble when loan sharks enter the picture.
David befriends a rookie baseball player who gets mixed up with a crooked sports agent.
David is kidnapped by a trio of convicts who have escaped from a women's prison. The situation becomes even more complicated when one of the women goes into labor.
A disturbed man is plotting to assassinate a politician who was once a Vietnam war hero. So when David discovers evidence of the plot, he must warn the authorities before it is too late--even if it means risking his freedom.
While working as a caretaker at a convent, David poses as a minister in order to protect a wounded boy who has been smuggled into the United States from Mexico.
An irate lumber baron becomes a threat to David's relationship with a young woman, and tries to force David out of town.
After being captured by an ex-convict, David is forced to work as a slave in a gold mine.
David enters a small deserted town that has been affected by bacteria. Now he must find an antidote for those who have been exposed to the plague--including himself.
David is employed at a scientific firm known as the Joshua-Lambert Institute. He is also happily involved with a colleague named Dr. Maggie Shaw. Two years have passed since his last transformation into the Hulk, and he hopes to rid himself of his alter-ego for good with the Gamma transponder he has created. But before David could be cured of his affliction, a former student of his by the name of Donald Blake makes a surprise visit. Blake, who has discovered that David Banner is still alive, explains to David about his bond with a Viking god named Thor. He calls upon Thor to prove his claim, but unfortunately, things get out of control, and Thor provokes David's transformation into the Hulk. A fight between the Hulk and Thor ensues, leaving the laboratory damaged. To make matters even worse, David and his transponder are soon at risk, thanks to a gang of criminals associated with the Joshua-Lambert Institute.
David finds his way to a large city, unaware that it is run by a crime lord named Wilson Fisk. After two of Fisk's men commit a robbery, one of them attempts to assault a woman. David's intervention leads to a transformation into the Hulk, and the two men flee after being attacked themselves. Although the Hulk saves the woman, he soon changes back to David, who is then wrongfully arrested for the attempted sexual assault, in addition to several other crimes committed by the robbers. Matt Murdock, a blind attorney, is assigned to David's case. Although David is uncooperative, Murdock believes in his innocence, and seeks to prove it. While awaiting trial, David has a nightmare about transforming into the Hulk, and wreaking havoc in the courtroom. This leads to another transformation into the Hulk, who then breaks out of jail.
In a desperate attempt to find a cure, David works as a janitor at a research laboratory in Portland, Oregon. While pretending to be simple-minded, he anonymously guides the genetic research of Dr. Ronald Pratt. After being discovered by Dr. Pratt, David admits to his true identity, and explains his story. Pratt then agrees to help rid him of the Hulk. Unfortunately, however, a group of spies are after Dr. Pratt's research, and want to use it to create "perfect" soldiers.
