Grave Circumstances! * 1st APPEARANCE "HALF-LIFE" (Tony Masterson)
Doc Samson receives a call from Bruce Banner, who asks him to pick him up. Samson sends a plane to bring Banner. When Bruce arrives to the base, he discovers that Betty Ross had left. So he takes Rick Jones with him to the city to look for her. They find her in a hotel room, rented by Ramon. "Nothing happened" between them, but Bruce fights Ramon, and loses. The lady decides to stay with Bruce. Rick kicks Ramon's butt really bad. Bruce rents a hotel room and invites Betty to... fix things. After "fixing" them, Bruce turns into the gray Hulk, who escapes from the hotel. The brutal escape causes Betty to get injured.
Hulk then meets Half Life, Tony Masterson who was a quiet college professor, humbly teaching English literature. He would have continued to do so for the rest of his life, had he not fallen victim to an experimental gamma bomb invented by Bruce Banner.The bomb mutated Masterson, giving him strange vampiric powers while withering his skin and bleaching it a ghostly green. Half-Life can absorb the Hulk's strength. Hulk gets rid of Half Life and hides amidst the distant mountains before sun rise, to prevent Bruce Banner from returning to the base.
