Incredible Hulk #52

The INCREDIBLE Hulk #52
Title: Vicious Circles
Writer: Bruce Jones
Penciler: Mike Deodato Jr.
Inks: Mike Deodato Jr.
Letters: Dave Sharpe
Colorist: Studio F
Editor:Axel Alonso
Cover Artist: Kaare Andrews

Synopsis:The agent who killed the woman to get the mysterious CD holds it in his hands as he sits before a laptop computer. Cut to the Hulk standing before Nadia and leans forward and sniffs her. Back at the room, the agent puts the disk into the laptop and sees a woman lying on a gurney and scalpels and blades start to come down towards her face and cut her. The Hulk snorts at Nadia which causes some kind of flashback for her and she slaps him in the face, telling him to stop it. He looks at her and says her name. The agent throws up and talks back to base, saying that he had never seen a woman's face peeled off before. He sits back down to see the recovery room sequence. Bruce wakes up and Nadia tells him she found him lying outside the shed. When he asks about her robe, she tells him she ripped it on a nail while reaching for aspirin. Nadia helps Bruce back to the house and Bruce sees one of the Hulk's impressions in the dirt. Back at the base, Agent S-3 finalizes the deal with the Abomination telling him that they will arrange an earthquake cover story for what happens with him. When Agent S-2 comes back, S-3 makes a comment about coming out when the danger is passed and Agent S-2 mentions something about the scar on her face. Nadia leads Bruce back to the bed and as she looks in the mirror, Bruce asks her about a scar on her face. She has a flashback to when she was thrown into a mirror. The mysterious agent watches the DVD and they start to take the bandages off the woman's face. He looks shocked but the comic doesn't show what the woman looks like. Agent S-3 tells S-2 that she got the scar in the field during a mission. Bruce decides to confess to Nadia that men are looking for him and he gets his laptop out to show her something. In the car, S-2 tells S-3 that the leader seems a little curt and whenever he gets like that, he just learned bad news or is about to replace an agent. The agent with the DVD tells his employer he wants more money. Someone knocks on the door asking for rent. He answers the door and gets shot in the chest but just throws the assassin across the room while telling his employer not to send anymore people to try and kill him. After killing the assassin, he takes off his shirt, revealing a bullett-proof vest. Bruce shows Nadia the video footage of the Hulk supposedly killing the little boy. He reveals that he is Bruce Banner and the Hulk and how the people pursing him are using the boy as bait. Back at homebase, Agent S-3 attacks a cleaning woman, thinking it is her replacement and the main leader asks her if she is feeling a little paranoid. Later that night, Nadia calls the leader and wants reassurance that they will not harm Bruce in any way. The mystery agent tells homebase taht tehy will be glad to pay the extra money for the DVD once they see who the woman was that was operated on. On the computer screen, you can see the lower part of the woman's face and make out that her code name is Mr. Blue, the person who has been communicating with Bruce for awhile and helping him out.

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