Superheroes never die, right? Just wait until Sunday (NBC  9 p.m. EST/PST)

Marvel comics Incredible Hulk, which was a series from 1978 to 1982 before being resurrected twice as TV specials, will take a dark turn in “The Death of the Inbcredible Hulk”.

“It’s a pure Hulk” promises Bill Bixby, who stars as the tormented David Banner, who transforms into the beefy green guy, (Lou Ferrigno) whenever he gets angry.

“We are true to the original,” says Bixby, who also produces and directs.  “It isn’t a backdoor pilot for another series which the previous two were.”

Bixby says the producers went for an episode that finally releases Banner from the Hulk when they found the right writer Gerald DiPego, who also wrote last year’s “The Trial of the Incredible Hulk”.

The death-scene ending is a tear-jerker, Bixby says. Even tough guy Ferrigno cried.

Ferrigno says he was impressed with Bixby’s direction in the scene, praising him for bringing out  “the most emotion I’ve sever seen myself act.”

Some critics think the Hulk should have been polished off a long time ago.

“I must confess I was a snob about it,too,” Bixby says, “Years ago, when my agent first called ,I said, ‘The comic book  character?’  But here it is, 12 years later. Something must be working.”

Bixby seems unconcerned that the Hulk isn’t enjoying big screen transformation of other comics such as “Batman” and the upcoming “Dick Tracy”.

“Maybe we were before our time. (Now) there’s an open mind toward this genre. It’s not supposed to be Shakespeare.”

Bixby said he’d pass on another Hulk outing and all indicators are that Sunday’s finale is, indeed, final.  But he’s expected to help launch a projected She-Hulk spinoff.

It’s hard to kill off a winner.  Even Bixby hedges: “In the world of make-believe, Dr, Frankenstein was brought back and Mr. Spock was brought back, so I guess anything can happen.”

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