Uncanny Origins (1996 series) #5

Teenager Rick Jones is dared by his playground pals to drive out to the restricted army bomb testing grounds and he agrees to go….

Physicist Bruce Banner ponders the gamma bomb, his mighty weapon that is being detonated that day. General Ross arrives, mocking Bruce as a weakling while his daughter Betty comes to Bruce’s defense. As they prepare for the detonation, Banner’s assistant Igor nags him about revealing the secrets to the gamma bomb. And then Rick is spotted out on the testing grounds. Bruce goes out to warn him telling Igor to stop the countdown, which he doesn’t. Bruce grabs Rick and pushes him into a trench just as the bomb goes off….

Bruce awakens in the med lab, having absorbed a dangerous amount of gamma radiation. Night falls and as Rick watches, Bruce transforms into the giant gray Hulk and smashes his way out of the building. As the army searches for the monster, Rick accompanies Bruce as he goes to his cabin where they find Igor searching for Bruce’s gamma formula. Hulk clobbers Igor, Rick finds the formula, Hulk spies a photo of Banner and instinctively hates him. Dawn breaks and Hulk transforms back into Banner. Soldiers arrive along with Betty. Igor is arrested, Bruce gets rid of Betty, and Bruce has Rick drive him into the desert at nightfall and for three more nights Bruce transforms into the gray Hulk at moonrise. But this night it is different: the Hulk is now green. And the rest is history….