Mighty World of Marvel Vol 1 108

The Leader is once more formulating a plan to destroy the Hulk once and for all, and considers the idea of putting the Hulk through so much strain to cause the brute a heart attack. To serve this end, the Leader approaches Glenn Talbot and offers him an attempt to cure Betty (who has been transformed into glass after a blood transfusion from the Sandman) and to destroy the Hulk once and for all. Talbot, hating the Hulk and Banner as he sees them as an obstacle for winning Betty's love agrees to talk General Ross into letting the Leader aid them.

As the Hulk finds some peace and quiet in the woods, Talbot tells General Ross of the Leaders plan. Ross, finding the idea crazy but decides to try and get permission from the President. Calling President Nixon on a secure line, General Ross gets the Presidential okay from Nixon to carry on with the Leaders plot to use a new experimental brainwave projector device. Setting up extra security around the hospital, and setting the Leader up with the device, the gamma spawned mastermind begins his attack.

Using the Mentallo-Projector to create artificial constructs of the Hulk's foes and sending them to attack the green giant. The Hulk is forced to fight mental projections of the Rhino, Xeron, the Sub-Mariner, Missing Link. As this continues it becomes clear that the Leader is intending to kill the Hulk, and when General Ross tries to stop him the Leader uses his mental powers to freeze both Ross and Talbot, before continuing his assault on the Hulk. The Hulk continues to battle more artificial foes like the Nightcrawler, Mandarin, Sandman, Glob and Iron Man, as the Leader hopes to draw the Hulk closer to the hospital, hoping that not only will he destroy his foe, but also the vibrations from the battle would cause the fragile glass form of Betty Ross to shatter.

As the Hulk tangles with a duplicate of the Absorbing Man, Jim Wilson realizes what the Leader is up too and breaks into the hospital. There, Jim uses the Leader's own device to create an army of Hulk duplicates. Faced with impossible odds and not knowing how it is possible the overtaxed Leader ends up falling into a catatonic state, ending his threat, and he is taken into military custody. The Hulk meanwhile is fighting a recreation of Abomination who suddenly disappears, and the Hulk having nobody left to fight promptly jumps away from the hospital, ending the threat toward Betty's fragile form.

Surviving the Owl's final attempt to kill them, Daredevil saves Judge Lewis' life and brings them back to safety. Shortly afterwards, Matt, Karen and Foggy attend a boxing match, unaware that the Masked Marauder and the Gladiator had taken their three best men and converted their best characteristics into an android known as the Tri-Man. Ordering the Tri-Man to interrupt the boxing match in an attempt to lure out Daredevil, DD comes out and attacks the Tri-Man, however during the battle, the Marauder and Gladiator manage to capture Foggy Nelson and Karen Page and threaten their lives... This story is continued next issue.

Brief Summary:

The Silver Surfer confronts Galactus and tries to force him to leave the Earth. No matter how hard he tries, the Surfer is not able to overpower his master. Meanwhile, the Human Torch returns from his mission with the Ultimate Nullifier which Reed uses to threaten Galactus. Afraid of the weapon's power, Galactus agrees to leave Earth alone. As punishment, he banishes the Surfer to Earth forever. With the crisis over, life goes back to normal. Sue gets mad at Reed ignoring her and Johnny attends his first day at college.

Detailed Summary:
The Silver Surfer arrives to try and stop his master from destroying the Earth. No matter how hard he tries he is not able to stop Galactus. However, the confrontation does give Johnny the time he needs to return from Galactus's ship out in deep space with the one weapon that can stop Galactus: The Ultimate Nullifier. When Reed threatens to use it against Galactus, he agrees to spare the Earth and leave if Reed gives him back the weapon.

True to his word, Galactus leaves but not before first relieving the Silver Surfer of his herald duties and removing the Silver Surfer's space-time powers. The Silver Surfer is thus exiled on the planet he vowed to save, no longer able to roam the galaxies. After the battle Alicia arrives to thank the Silver Surfer for his help, causing the jealous Thing to think that she's choosing the Surfer over him. The Thing quietly walks away feeling nothing but rejection. The Silver Surfer also departs, vowing to return once he's traversed all the Earth.

As life returns to normal the press dismisses the Galactus fiasco as a hoax. While one man takes interest in news reports of the Thing roaming the city, at Metro College the unreliable football star Whitey Mullins gives Coach Thorne a tongue lashing after being scolded for not being a team player. At the Baxter Building, Sue storms out when Reed once again ignores her in favor of his experiments. Finally, Johnny arrives at his first day of college at Metro University. There he meets Wyatt Wingfoot and the two become fast friends, but as the two are meeting with the Dean, Johnny can't help but think about Crystal who is still trapped in the Hidden Land behind Maximus's Negative Zone barrier.