World War Hulk #3

Before the battle Gen'l Ross learns that some civilians think Hulk is a hero. He remembers another time when Hulk was lauded as a hero and given an an amnesty and an adamantium statue (Hulk #279) after saving the world from an (actually fake) alien invasion (#278). In this period Hulk had Bruce Banner's mind, and he was even made an Avenger (again) (#284). But eventually fate made him the brute Hulk again. And Ross recalls #300 where Hulk attacked Thor with the statue, and Dr Strange exiled him to the other-dimensional Crossroads. Ross also remembers other excuses for Hulk's bad deeds:- Apocalypse possessed him (#457) or Doc Samson separated Hulk from Banner (#315). The SHIELD agent briefing the President is Maria Hill. Sentry still doesn't respond. We get a brief look at Iron Man and Mr Fantastic in captivity. Zom is an ancient evil that Dr Strange temporarily let loose from its confining amphora in Strange Tales #156-157 to combat a bigger evil. It temporarily escaped again as a baby Zom in DrS(1988)#20. Strange possibly uses it here because it doesn't need functioning hands for magic? Whatever hands it has are encased in metal, but I always assumed that was part of its confinement.

WWH: FRONT LINE #3/1 Floyd and Urich watch as the military move in. An old woman refuses to be evacuated from her house, and later her house gets flattened in the conflict. HEROES FOR HIRE #14-15 Humbug hosts the Brood Queen No-Name's eggs. The Warbound keep Colleen Wing and Tarantula to be punished for killing a Brood Hiveling but let the rest of the team go. They meet Scorpion who tells them she killed Paladin. But later Paladin shows up alive and agrees to help the team rescue Wing and Tarantula (in exchange for Moon Boy). The rescue succeeds, and Humbug turns out to have been a plant by Earth's Hive-Mind to sterilise No-Name and kill her eggs. INCREDIBLE HULK #109(p1-16) Amadeus Cho, Angel, Hercules and Namora make a truce with Hulk and the Warbound as Ross's army attacks. Rick Jones is still trying to persuade Hulk to stop, before he is caught by the Warbound trying to contact Dr Strange in WWH#2. WWH: FRONT LINE #2/3 SHIELD use Captain Rectitude as bait for the Hulk. WWH: GAMMA CORPS #1 An old Hulk enemy Gen'l John Ryker has assembled a bunch of people who blame Hulk for something, and gamma-irradiated them. They kill Flux, a previous subject of Ryker's. Team leader Grey is Brian Talbot, younger brother of deceased Major Glenn Talbot. PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #12 Punisher fights Mung and the insectoids. IRON MAN #20 Dum Dum Dugan runs SHIELD in Tony Stark's absence. But captive Stark gets a message to him telling him to ready a last-ditch option that will transport the whole of Manhattan into the Negative Zone, to be destroyed in the Distortion Area. AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #5 Henry Gyrich sends his secret Shadow Initiative to rescue the trainees from captivity in Madison Square Garden. Trauma faces up to Hulk alone. It doesn't end well.

WWH: FRONT LINE #4/2-5/2 Danny Granville sees on the security tape ARCH-E getting instructions from Korg to strictly practice Star Trek-type non-interference. He then finds a witness whose life ARCH-E inadvertantly saved, at which point his literal-minded computer brain exploded. Korg takes a little persuading that he himself was responsible for ARCH-E's death, not humans, during which time the Stone Man beats Danny up a bit. But eventually they become drinking buddies, and nobody has to commit ritual suicide. WWH: GAMMA CORPS #2-4(p1-22) We learn the origins of the other Corps members who Ryker has mutated with gamma rays. Mess (Nichole Martin) blames Hulk for the death of her son in a car crash. Prodigy (Timothy Wilkerson) blames him for his son being born disabled. Mr Gideon (Gideon Wilson) blames him for the death of his son Jim who became Hulk's pal, even though he actually died of AIDS. And Griffin (Eliot Franklin) used to be Clown in the Ringmaster's Circus of Crime - for which he got beaten up a lot in prison. The Corps attack the Hulk. Leader-like Prodigy uses Leader-type pink Humanoids, but coated with a toxin derived from Hulk-blood which gradually reverts Hulk to the weaker grey version. Mr Gideon, Mess and Griffin attack Hulk's neck, weakening it so that Grey can snap it. But Hulk recovers and takes the fight to Ryker's base, which he destroys. Meanwhile he causes Gamma Corps to question their allegiance to Ryker. INCREDIBLE HULK #109(p17-23)-110 Amadeus Cho sneaks into Madison Square Gardens with Scorpion. Cho tries to convince Hulk he doesn't want to kill his captives, Hulk tells him the plan to make them fight to the death in an arena. Cho calls in the Renegades. Scorpion injects Hulk with the weaponised thallium she got in Heroes For Hire. Cho provokes Hulk into a rage, but Greenie stops short of killing him.