The Leader Reviews

Once known as Samuel Sterns, a chemical plant employee of Boise, Idaho, he was moving radioactive materials one day. Somehow they exploded and Sterns was subjected to gamma radiation. After recovering, he became a green-skinned giant-brained genius who called himself The Leader, due apparently to his subconscious desire to be as smart as his physicist brother Philip.

After the radiation, The Leader could predict outcomes of things in advance, had a perfect memory, superhuman intelligence and could control normal humans by only touching them. He is sophisticated in weaponry, computers, humanoids physics and genetics. He also has an army of plastic Humanoids, which he used to try and rewrite Earth's history, overthrow the US government and capture the Hulk to study him and steal Bruce Banner's Absorbatron to absorb the energy of a nuclear explosion.

At one point, The Leader rescues the Hulk from a battle and operated on him to save his life. Indebted, The Hulk goes to the home world of The Watcher and raids his "Ultimate Machine, which contains all the knowledge in the universe. This ends up being too much knowledge for The Leader and he collapses. The Leader then joins forces with General Ross to fight The Hulk. He has created android duplicates of the President and Vice President while trying to kidnap them and he even gamma-radiated Manhattan's water supply to mutate the human race into being like him. He even bombed Middletown, Arizona, killing thousands and built his own society called Freehold in the Arctic which was populated only with people dying from radiation poisoning.