Bruce Banner, who is now on the run from the military and trying to keep the Hulk bottled inside him. Bruce is contacted by a secretive and amoral scientist name Samuel Sterns who offers Banner the chance to cure himself of the Hulk. Bruce discovers that Sterns is hiding a mutation of his own. Sterns once experimented on himself, accidentally giving himself the ability to transform into a super-genius creature which he refers to as the Leader. By getting some gamma radiation, Sterns hopes to be able to control of his powers for a sinister plot. However, Sterns has also mutated Rick Jones and Thaddeus Ross into Hulk’s
