Essential Hulk #5

In "And Canst Thou Slay... the Juggernaut?", the Hulk is imprisoned at Hulkbuster Base, only to be teleported to another dimension by Peter Corbeau’s mysterious ray—only to return moments later, bringing the unstoppable Juggernaut with him. With both titans breaking free and clashing in a brutal, unpredictable fight, the Hulk finds himself at odds with an ally he never asked for, while the X-Men arrive to take down the Juggernaut, leaving the Hulk to vanish into the chaos.

In "Anybody out There Remember... the Cobalt Man?", Ralph Roberts confronts the Hulk aboard a sinking ship, their clash echoing a past he can't quite remember. As the Hulk begins to revert to Banner, the fate of both men hangs in the balance—caught between memory, power, and the sea.

In the hidden depths of the Hidden Land, the Hulk’s rampage draws the attention of the Inhumans, whose ruler Black Bolt must find a way to contain the jade giant’s overwhelming strength. With no choice, Black Bolt sends the Hulk hurtling into space aboard a rocket, launching him toward the mysterious Counter-Earth.

In "Crisis on Counter-Earth!", the Hulk lands on a twisted parallel world where he’s quickly overpowered by the Man-Beast’s New-Men and trapped in a stasis chamber. Meanwhile, the Recorder awakens Adam Warlock from his long slumber, and on Earth, Glenn Talbot’s escape from Soviet captivity raises unsettling questions—was he ever truly captured at all?

In "Peril of the Plural Planet!", the Hulk breaks free from the Man-Beast's forces and allies with Adam Warlock’s rebellion. As they share a final meal, the Man-Beast strikes, capturing Warlock and using Rex Carpenter to fuel a public campaign of hatred before executing him.

In "Triumph on Terra-Two," the Hulk stands against the Man-Beast’s bid to seize control of Counter-Earth after Adam Warlock’s execution, rallying Warlock’s followers in a desperate stand. When Warlock returns, his power reshapes the New Men and the Man-Beast—reducing them to animals and halting the conquest before it can fully begin.

In "And the Wind Howls... Wendigo!", the Hulk seeks solitude in the Canadian wilderness, only to be pulled into a chilling mystery when he stumbles upon a cave tied to the cursed legacy of the Wendigo. There, Marie and her brother Georges attempt to transfer the Wendigo’s power to the Hulk in a desperate bid to save their brother Paul, but their magic falters just as the monstrous Wendigo awakens—and the Hulk, roused from his trance, must face the creature head-on. With the Canadian government deploying Wolverine to handle the Hulk sighting, tensions rise in a clash of primal forces and desperate hopes.

In "And Now... the Wolverine!", Canadian super-agent Wolverine joins forces with the Hulk to confront the terrifying Wendigo. As the beast falls, Wolverine’s allegiance shifts, igniting a brutal clash between the two giants. Meanwhile, Marie presses forward with her plan to transfer the Wendigo’s power, setting off a chain of choices that tests the limits of friendship and the cost of transformation.

In "Between Hammer and Anvil!", the Hulk, fresh from a narrow escape, finds an unlikely ally in Crackajack Jackson, a man with a heart and a mission to see his son in prison. As the Hulk joins him on the road, two other inmates—Hammer and Anvil—break free, transformed by an alien twist of fate, and return with a vengeance. The journey takes a dark turn when the paths of these three men collide at the prison gates, where loyalty, justice, and the weight of the past come crashing down.

When the Hulk crashes into Chicago, Dr. Banner finds himself drawn into a dangerous experiment that awakens the ancient electric entity Zzzax. As chaos erupts, scientist Mark Revel must find a way to contain the creature before it overwhelms the city.

In "The Day of the Devastator!", the Hulk faces off against the mysterious foreign spy Kirkov Petrova, who wields a satellite-powered armor to lay waste to Hulkbuster Base. When the dust settles, a shocking revelation from the autopsy points to a deception deeper than the battle itself—Glenn Talbot was never who he claimed to be.

In "Mind over Mayhem!", the Gremlin’s twisted experiment swaps the minds of Gregori Kronski and Glenn Talbot, setting off a chain of chaos that tests the limits of identity and control. As the American team fights to escape captivity, the Gremlin’s obsession with mental destruction takes center stage—while the Hulk battles his bizarre, rhyming triceratops companion, Droog, and S.H.I.E.L.D. confronts the icy threat of Bitterfrost.

In "The Man Who Came Down on a Rainbow!", the Hulk journeys across a cosmic rainbow to a strange, idyllic realm where he reunites with familiar faces—Crackerjack and Jarella—only to discover they are illusions crafted by the Shaper of Worlds. When the Toad Men suddenly abduct him and his companions, the line between reality and creation begins to blur.

In "The Triumph of the Toad!" from Essential Hulk #5 (2008), the Hulk is whisked away to the bizarre realm of Toadworld, where he’s forced to hunt down the elusive Shaper of Worlds. When a sudden attack shatters the Shaper’s focus, the reality of the world begins to unravel—leaving the Hulk to confront the chaos as Crackerjack and Jarella vanish into the fray.

In "The Lurker Beneath Loch Fear!", the Hulk finds an unlikely ally in fisherman Angus Mactavish, whose net accidentally traps him. As the two form a bond, they're both taken by Lord Black Jaimie Macawber, a man who believes the mysterious Loch Fear creature must be preserved—no matter the cost.

In "Warfare in Wonderland!", the Hulk takes a surreal journey across the country with a young boy, riding a train bound for the whimsical Wonderland amusement park. When the military dispatches the Abomination to stop him, the monstrous agent unexpectedly turns on his handlers, throwing the mission into chaos.

In "An Intruder in the Mind!", Doc Samson uses a shrinking device to send the Hulk into Glenn Talbot’s mind in a desperate bid to recover his lost memories. Once inside, the Hulk must confront a storm of Talbot’s past—friends and enemies alike—flickering through the labyrinth of his psyche. The mission succeeds, but the cost may be more than anyone expected.