* "Attuma" Appearance

STORY 1: Hank Pym is working on a project involving his ants. He calls Janet over to bring him a box of tubes, which she accidentally drops. Pym gets angry with Janet, causing her to get upset, thinking she means nothing to him and runs to her room. While in her room, Janet van Dyne thinks about how she feels foolish for being in love with a man whom she feels will never return the affection, and decides to leave her partner for good. She packs away clothes in a suitcase, and boards a plane to an undisclosed location, leaving a note behind for Hank to read. While she's on the plane, Hank figures out a way to work around Jan's error, and goes to look for Jan around the house to celebrate, feeling guilty over the way he treated her. He finds the note on the desk, and goes ballistic, feeling that he's the one to blame for losing "The one precious thing I hold dear in life!" During his moment on anger, he uncontrollably becomes Giant, breaking various pieces of his home, before finally passing out on the floor, back to his normal size.

Meanwhile, Janet's plane gets taken into a fountain of bubbles by Attuma. Attuma is still embarrassed over the defeat that happen to him at the hands of The Sub-Mariner in Fantastic Four issue #33, and decides to redeem his honor by attacking the plane and planning on taking a human from it to study.

STORY 2: Starting as the last issue ended, Bruce Banner is locked in a government prison for allegedly trying to steal a device that he created for the Army. He has been taking tranquilizer pills to keep him from turning into the Hulk while in jail, but Thunderbolt Ross and Major Talbot simply assume he is taking them to keep from panicking. When Bruce is moved to Washington DC prior to his trial, Rick Jones pays him a visit, and tells Bruce that he should just tell everyone the truth about who he is. Bruce says that he can never do that for if enemies of America discovered who he was and how he got his powers, they might try to study him and use his powers for their own desires, or maybe even make a whole army of new Hulks. Banner thinks aloud that he would reveal his identity but only to someone who would never let the information get out. This gives Rick an idea, and he goes see the President of the United States himself, Lyndon B Johnson. At first Rick can't get through to him, but he gets through easily once he shows the staff his Avengers badge. Once President Johnson knows the truth, he immediately gives Bruce Banner a pardon.

Now a free man, Banner is ordered to travel to Astra Island with Glen Talbot to test his new nuclear device. Talbot still does not trust him however. This mistrust coupled with the fact that Banner has run out of his tranquilizer pills sees Banner turn into the Hulk again. He is able to get away from Talbot first, and thus Talbot simply thinks that Banner called the Hulk somehow. At that moment, the Leader's army of Humanoids strike the Hulk, attempting to capture him for the Leader so the Leader can learn the Hulk's secrets, and possibly convince the Hulk to work for him.

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