Incredible Hulk #32
 The INCREDIBLE Hulk #32(#506)
Title: Spiral Staircase part 3
Writer: Sean McKeever/Paul Jenkins
Penciler: Joe Bennett
Inks: Tom Palmer
Letters: John Workman, Jr
Colorist: Arsia Rozegar
Editor:Tom Brevoort
Synopsis: The issue opens up with a backhoe digging at a grave where
you can only read the name "BANNER" on the tombstone. Cut to the Hulk
having coffee with the Thing at the Fantastic Four headquarters when
the two of them naturally get into an argument. The She-Hulk breaks
it up and she and Angela Lipscombe try to
hold a conversation. Reed Richards pops in and says that he has looked
over what the Leader theorized as to
the cure for Bruce's ALS disease where the transformations back to
Bruce jump-starts the alterations and it can be cured with gene therapy.
Reed had already mapped out the voyage. Ant-Man is there so that he
can shrink down and manually fix the corrupted DNA. The Hulk asks
Doc Samson what Bruce will think when he finds out where they got
the source for the cure. To help protect Ant-Man against being attacked
by the Hulk's antibodies, Reed gives him a gun of of enzymes to fight
them off. Reed will put a constant supply of antigen into the Hulk
to help distract the antibodies. Ant-man shrinks down and is injected
into the Hulk. Angela tells Doc Samson that
she is worried that if Bruce makes it through the operation, that
he might have a breakdown once he realizes how they got the cure.
Ant-Man tries to make incisions while in the Hulk's body to get to
where he needs to go but the walls heal up too quickly and this causes
the antibodies to notice Ant-man. After they start to attack him,
Ant-man freaks out and grows a little large, causing damage in the
Hulk's body and causing the Hulk pain. Inside the mind of the Hulk,
everything is going crazy around Bruce. The image of the Leader
appears and begs Bruce to help him. He's afraid of what he has found
on the other side. When Bruce turns to talk to him, he has disappeared.
Ant-man manages to calm himself and Reed increases the pressure of
the cerebro spinal fluid so that the incisions take longer to heal.
Ant-man finally makes it to the and replaces the corrupt cells in
Bruce's nucleus with healthy ones. Ant-man asks where they got the
healthy replacement parts from and Reed says they extracted them from
Bruce's father. Later, now cured of the disease, Bruce goes to his
father's grave. He tells his father that he has hated him his entire
life and now he finds out that he was instrumental in his cure. So
along with his dead father helping cure him, and everyone close to
him dead, Bruce just doesn't know how to feel. And he walks away from
the grave.
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