The Abomination

Real Name: Emil Blonsky

Alias: Ravanger of Worlds

First Appearance: Tales to Astonish #90

Origin: Tales to Astonish #90

Powers/Abilities: The Abomination exhibits superhuman strength, at one time stronger than the Hulk's. When subjected to extreme physical injury, extreme cold, or lack of oxygen such as in space the Abomination goes into a comatose state. The Abomination also exhibits some amount of regenerative power given that he has healed almost entirely from his exposure to nuclear waste. This healing power is not at a level even close to the Hulk's.

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Origin: The Abomination was originally a spy who stumbled across some gamma equipment used by Bruce Banner and he purposely exposed himself to gamma radiation, turning himself into the Abomination.


GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

Tales to Astonish #90: Emil sneaks around Gamma Base, a spy undercover as a soldier, and stumbles upon Bruce's Gamma Ray Machine. He takes pictures of it to sell and hides just as Bruce comes in. Bruce preps the machine to change himself into the Hulk but soldiers find him and drag him away before he can finish the process. Emil sneaks out of the shadows when everyone is gone, figuring that given how smart Bruce is, whatever he was going to do must have been important. He steps in front of the machine and activiates it, changing him into the Abomination. The Abomination smashes the machine so that no one else can duplicate the process. He starts to tear apart the base, causing Bruce to turn into the Hulk and the two of them to fight. Due to the fact that Emil was exposed to a higher dose of gamma radiation than Bruce, he is stronger and manages to knock the Hulk unconscious. The Abomination grabs Betty and jumps away.

Tales to Astonish #91: General Ross helps revive the Hulk and when the Hulk turns back into Bruce, Bruce formulates a plan. Bruce uses a Infra-gamma Beam to draw the Abomination back to the base. When the Abomination comes back, he drops Betty and Bruce hits a switch which draws the strength out of the Abomination. Bruce gets excited and turns into the Hulk before the process can finish. The two start to fight but before it can end, the Stranger interrupts and takes the Abomination away with him.

The Incredible Hulk #136: The Hulk is kidnapped by Xeron to help him in his quest to defeat Klaatu. When the Hulk wakes up on Xeron's ship in space, he is greated by the ship's first mate, the Abomination, who is in charge of all the slaves.

The Incredible Hulk #137: The Hulk starts a fight with the Abomination but the fight is stopped when Xeron shots the Hulk with a harpoon blast. The other slaves explain how they find the Abomination on a world battling a creature and took him on board where he battled the previous first-mate to a death duel. The Hulk accepts his condition as a slave for now considering he can not get off the ship. One night, while the Hulk was gazing at the stars from aboard the ship, the Abomination knocks him over into space. Xeron manages to save the Hulk with one of his harpoons. Later, the Hulk reverts back to Bruce. When a battle with Klaatu starts, Bruce goes into a space boat and the boat turns over, sending Bruce into space. The Abomination grabs Bruce in the confusion. Bruce turns into the Hulk and the two battle. The Hulk hits the Abomination away, sending him flying into space, while the Hulk falls to Earth.

The Incredible Hulk #159: Bruce returns from space in a ship and General Ross fires rockets at him. A stray rocket hits the desert and happens to hit the spot where the Abomination is buried under ground in a comatose state. The Abomination awakes and remembers he wants to destroy the Hulk and sees him falling to the ground. He starts to go after him. The army comes across the Abomination, and thinking that he is the Hulk, trap him in a titanium cage filled with sleeping gas. General Ross informs them that they have gotten the wrong person and then goes into the cage and offers the Abomination a deal. If the Abomination goes and catches the Hulk before Betty finds out about it, then General Ross will help clear him. The Abomination sees a calendar on the wall which reads 1972 which is two years from what he last remembers, namely 1970. General Ross convinces the Abomination that it really is 1970 and that the calendar is just for long-range goals. The army drops the Abominaton near the Hulk and the two fight. During the fight, the Hulk casually mentions that he beat the Abomination a long time ago. When the Abomination realizes it, he starts to crack a little bit realizing that he can lose whole sections of his life without realizing it. The Hulk takes the confusion and knocks the Abomination out and leaves.

The Incredible Hulk #171: Bruce sneaks onto the Hulkbuster Base right before the Rhino and Abomination attack the base. They put General Ross, Betty Ross, and the other soldiers in a holding cell. The two villians explain how they are seeking revenge against the Hulk for past defeats. They mean to destroy everybody. The Abomination comes across Bruce wandering around the base, taking him to be just another soldier, and grabs him. Bruce turns into the Hulk and shortly battles the Abomination and Rhino. The Hulk runs away when the Abomination tries to shoot the Hulk with a laser gun. The Hulk comes across Jim Wilson and his girlfriend who have snuck on the base. They formulate a plan whereas Jim's girlfriend distracts the Abomination and Rhino for the Hulk to jump them while Jim goes and stops a bomb the Rhino and Abomination planted. The Rhino and Abomination start charging at the Hulk from opposite sides at full speed and at the last second, the Hulk turns away and the two hit each other at full force and knocking each other out.

The Incredible Hulk #194: Army forces find the comatose body of the Abomination buried on Gamma Base after his last battle with the Hulk. Before he can awaken, they plant a bomb in his brain and tell him that he will help them. The Abomination says he will.

The Incredible Hulk #195: The Hulk goes to a circus with a boy he befriends and causes a panic. General Ross sends the Abomination after the Hulk to bring him back to Gamma Base. The two fight and during the battle, one of the Hulk's blows deactivates the bomb in the Abomination's head. The Abomination tries to trick the Hulk into believing he is the Hulk's friend. The Hulk's friend tries to convince the Hulk that the Abomination is tricking him and grabs a gun from a policeman but accidently shots at the Hulk. The Abomination uses the Hulk's confusion and convinces the Hulk to leave with him.

The Incredible Hulk #196: The Hulk and Abomination hide in an army truck and sneak onto Kennedy Space Center. They manage to take the base over and get on the broadcasting system and demand 100 million dollars in uncut diamonds or they will start tearing the base apart. Doc Samson has Betty broadcast her face throughout the base telling the Hulk that she is his friend. The Abomination keeps smashing the monitors until the Hulk can't take anymore and starts a fight with the Abomination. The Abomination hits the Hulk into a building and makes a run for a rocket to make an escape. The Hulk gets out from the rubble and grabs onto the rocket as it takes off. The Hulk damages the rocket and it explodes in space with the Abomination in it while the Hulk falls back to Earth.

The Incredible Hulk #270: The Hulk goes with Amphibion, Dark-Crawler, and Torgo into space to help stop the Galaxy Master who is being helped by the Abomination to conquer worlds. The Hulk gets transported to a planet to fight the Abomination while the other three go fight the Galaxy Master. After exploding in the rocket, the Abomination floated in space until the Galaxy Master. The Hulk learns that the Galaxy Master has restored the Abomination to his original strength. The two fight and even with the increased power, the Hulk beats the Abomination. The two are transported near the battle with the Galaxy Master and to prove his worth to the Galaxy Master, the Abomination defeats Amphibion. The Hulk defeats the Galaxy Master, causing the Abomination to feel the same pain and causing him to fall back into the void of space.

The Incredible Hulk #287: MODOK attacks the base where Project Earthfall is located. He defeats all the soldiers and scientists and makes it to the cryogenics core. General Ross confronts MODOK but then allows him to de-thaw the cryogenically-frozen body of the Abomination.

The Incredible Hulk #288: MODOK thaws out the Abomination who whimpers about enough pain. General Ross explains how they found the ice-encased body of the Abomination floating in space after the last defeat by the Hulk. The Abomination says he doesn't want to fight the Hulk anymore and doesn't want anymore pain. MODOK takes the Abomination and transports away. Later, in MODOK's lab, MODOK tortues the Abomination over and over again to make him want to fight the Hulk. The Abomination just keeps say no and that he can never defeat the Hulk.

The Incredible Hulk #289: The Abomination goes to the lab Bruce and Kate Waynesboro are working at and decides to attack basically because he is more afraid of what MODOK will do to him than the Hulk. The Abomination attacks but the Hulk is so angry over the fact he just found out Katherine was in actuality a SHIELD agent, that he beats the Abomination severly under the Abomination begs for the Hulk to stop. The Abomination, knowing he can't beat the Hulk and can't go back to MODOK empty handed, takes Katherine and heads back to MODOK.

The Incredible Hulk #290: The Abomination returns to AIM headquarters with Katherine in hand not knowing that AIM had driven off MODOK. The Abomination hands over Katherine and just asks to be free and he will do anything they want. The Hulk follows the Abomination with a gamma-tracker and reaches the outskirts of the AIM base. MODOK confronts him, showing him what AIM is planning on doing with Katherine, namely make her into a being like MODOK. MODOK and the Hulk break in but it is too late as Katherine has become Ms MODOK. MODOK and Ms MODOK team up and defeat AIM. MODOK attacks the Hulk and then to show him what is to come, MODOK fires upon the Abomination and breaks him down into atoms that scatter to the wind.

The Incredible Hulk Annual #15: An explosion occurs in space and from that explosion, a figure falls to Earth. SHIELD comes to investigate the figure and finds the Abomination who is speaking very elegantly. He easily defeats them and uses a mindscan on one of the soldiers to find out any secrets. He jumps to a nearby town and sees his reflection in a pane of glass, seeing how ugly he is. The Abomination winces as the mind of Emil tries to regain control. The town police come but the Abomination beats them and leaps away. The Abomination goes to Gamma Base to use the equipment but also happens upon Bruce. The Abomination explains to Bruce about how the disembodied consciousness of Tyrannus in space came upon the disintegrated atoms of the Abomination and when he combined with them, the mind of Tyrannus was able to take control of the Abomination's body. He tells how he came to Gamma Base to use the equipment to separate Emil's body from the Abomination's and to take control of that body and that Bruce will help him. Bruce turns into the Hulk and him and the Abomination fight, but the Abomination manages to knock the Hulk out. The Abomination kidnaps Betty and holds her hostage unless Bruce helps him do the separation. Bruce agrees and he and the Abomination-Tyrannus work with the equipment to get it right. The Abomination gets into the bath and at that point SHIELD catches up and attacks. Bruce knows that Betty might be doomed so he changes into the Hulk. The Abomination steps out of the bath holding Emil's body but Tyrannus's mind is still trapped in the Abomination's body. The Hulk and Abomination fight but this time the Hulk wins. The Hulk is taken into custody by SHIELD. Emil retains enought of Tyrannus's mind and tells Bruce where to find Betty, saving her in time.

The Incredible Hulk #364: The Abomination lands at the Nuclear facility Bruce was working at anonymously. The Abomination recognizes him and starts to push him around. He forces Bruce to change into the Hulk, actually saving his life because Leader before he can get any information.

The Incredible Hulk #383: Two city workers going through the sewer at night stumble across the Abomination and run. The Abomination crawls out of the sewer and climbs up the outside of a building and stares at a sleeping Nadia, the Abominations ex-wife. The next day, the Abomination is seen watching Nadia as see leaves with her date, Sergi who also happens to be a Pantheon agent. Sergi alerts the Pantheon who come to help. The Pantheon tells Bruce of the situation. The Hulk and Pantheon wait during a performance by Nadia to see if the Abomination shows up. Suddenly, people start disappearing due to Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet. Chaos starts as people start running around, confused. The Abomination takes the opportunity and kidnaps Nadia, who faints. The Hulk sees this and goes after the Abomination into the sewer. The Hulk stops the Abomination but before he can do anything, he gets sucked into the battle with Thanos.

The Incredible Hulk #384: The Hulk returns from the battle with Thanos to the sewer but he is the size of a mouse. He comes across the Abomination carrying the unconscious form on Nadia but he is too small to stop him physically. Nadia wakes up and screams for help but the homeless people in the sewer don't do anything. They accept the Abomination for what he is. The Abomination tells Nadia that when he was a man, he watched her perform in Europe. He tells her he just wants to protect her from the insanity above and that he plans to keep her down in the sewers with him. He screams and yells and calls him insane. The Hulk jumps on the Abomination's shoulders and whispers in his ear, pretending he is God. The Hulk tells the Abomination that he must let Nadia go for she will wither and die if she stays in the sewers. He says that if the Abomination told Nadia who he really was, she might run into his arms still in love, but most likely she will be repulsed by what he has become. The Abomination returns Nadia to her home. The Hulk says good-bye to the Abomination and jumps off to battle Thanos again. The Abomination says good-bye to the Hulk, knowing it was him the whole time.

The Incredible Hulk Annual #20: A women walks in into Central Park waiting for someone to kill her. A gang confronts her and is about to do just that when the Abomination stops them. The woman, Sandy, tells the Abomination about how her husband was killed by Madman during a fight with the Hulk and that she has nothing left to live for. The Abomination takes her down to the sewers where he lives with the homeless people. Sandy gets comfortable and listens to a story the Abomination tells the homeless people. The Abomination tells of a story about a man named Blonsky who loved a women named Nadia so much that he took a curse about himself for all time just to insure that the woman he loved would be happy. The woman woke up the next morning, ready to start her life again. The Abomination left a note in her pocket to come back into the sewers for storytime any time she felt.

The Incredible Hulk #431: A reporter follows police as they go into the sewers of New York in an effort to clean out the homeless. They stumble upon the Abomination who is protecting his people. A fight ensues and the police are forced to flee with the camera showing the Abomination taking a "hostage" away with him. The Hulk hears about the situation and decides to go take care of it since he feels responsible for the Abomination. The "hostage," Sandy, is actually a women bringing food and help to the homeless people in the sewer. The Abomination tells Sandy to leave because he has a feeling that the police will be back. What no one knows is that a corrupt politician is having the police kill all the homeless people in the sewer so that an associate of his can bring guns and drugs into the city. The Hulk arrives and goes with the police into the sewer. The Abomination starts a fight with the Hulk unaware that it is just a ploy to let the homeless people get away. The homeless people decide to help the Abomination and come back. One steals a gun from the police and starts to shoot and the others throw stuff and the police. The police return fire, killing most of the homeless people. The Abomination loses control, killing one of the cops, and confronts the Hulk.

The Incredible Hulk #432: The Abomination opens a steam line and loses the Hulk. The Abomination starts to pick off the remaining cops one by one. The last cop stumbles across Sandy and holds her hostage so that the Abomination wouldn't hurt him. The Hulk tackles the Abomination, allowing the policeman and Sandy to make it to the surface. The Abomination hits the Hulk throught the ceiling of the sewer and they take their fight to the streets above. The Abomination gets to a news helicopter flying above followed by the Hulk and gives the Hulk an option: let the helicopter crash, killing the people, and he will go quietly, or save the people and he escapes. The Hulk saves the people while the Abomination dives into the water below, getting away.

The Abominations #2: The Abomination in the Maestro-future tortures Janis Jones through the use of a telepath to make her tell him where "the Betty" went to. She refuses to say anything. The Abomination goes back to his room where the mutated She-Hulk, now called the Shulk, is resting. This future Abomination is apparently in love with her. The Shulk does not share the same feelings. The telepath helps Janis escape. Meanwhile back in the present time, the "Betty" and other escapees from the future are stuck beside some homeless people in a showdown with the NY cops in NY city. Fighting erupts and before things get out of hand, the Abomination comes up from the sewer and with the help of a smoke bomb, gets everyone down in the sewers to safety. The future Abomination hires Quarry to find Janis and "the Betty" before the child is born. The Shulk hits the Abomination with everything she has when he least expects it and leaves. The Shulk grabs the telepath and makes him show her how to use the time machine and they go back in time and land in the same spot as the other people. The cops draw their guns on her. Meanwhile, down in the sewers, the Abomination yells at his people, wondering why they keep trying to go up to the surface even though the people up there don't want them. One of the people from the future regains consciousness and upon seeing the Abomination, decides to try to stop everything that happens in the future by killing the Abomination now. He grabs a pole and jumps at the Abomination.

The Abominations #3: The Abomination gets into a fight with the visitors from the Maestro-future. In the future, one of the mutates finds a human and presents it to the future-Abomination. The human begs for her life, saying that she is good at cybernetic prostesis and extensions which gives the Abomination an idea. The Abomination in the present ties up the visitors just as the Shulk makes it to the sewers saying that she is there to assasinate the "Betty." The Abomination says that the girl is under his protection and that the Shulk will do nothing but answer his questions. In the future, the Abomination, now exhibiting robotic features, destroys the time machine saying that the past is dead and to just let it fade away. The Abomination and the other future visitors fight against the Shulk to prevent from killing "Betty's" new baby which was just born. The telepath stops the Shulk only by killing her. The Shulk whispers something to the Abomination before she dies. The Abomination buries her under a tombstone reading "Jennifer Walters." The visitors from the future decide to stay with the Abomination under the sewer and they call themselves as a group the Abominations.

The Incredible Hulk #459: While the Banner-less Hulk wanders about the city in a world of his own, the Abomination decides to take revenge on the Hulk for his part in members of the people living in the sewer dying. The Abomination faces the Hulk, but all the Hulk sees are past versions of himself. They fight but the Hulk, who in his mind is actually fighting himself, eventually is able to defeat the Abomination and with one last punch, sends him flying away.

X-Men #74: While flying through the sewers of New York City, the Angel runs into the Abomination, who is a tad bit mad due to most of his friends in the sewers being killed. The Abomination, disgusted as to how nice Angel looks, tells him he does not belong down in the darkness and tries to hit him. He chases the Angel through the sewers, with Marrow following both of them. The Angel hides and right before the Abomination finds him, Marrow distracts him and causes the Abomination to chase her. He catches her, saying that she belongs in the sewers with him. The Angel comes up and tells the Abomination to let Marrow go. The Angel and the Abomination fight with the Abomination easily defeating the Angel. Right before he kills the Angel, Marrow throws two bones at the Abomination's eyes. The Abomination rips the bones out and tells Angel that he is giving Marrow false hope and that if she goes with the Angel, she will eventually come back to the sewer. He turns and leaves them.

The Incredible Hulk #472: General Ross tracks down who he thinks is the Hulk to a town which has been destroyed and it turns out to be the Abomination.

The Incredible Hulk #473: The issue starts with General Ross takes shots at the Abomination who is throwing debris at him. The Abomination, who is ranting, walks towards General Ross. Ross fires and hits the Abomination right below the eye, which infuriates him. The Abomination recognizes General Ross and he admits to him that he killed Betty.

The Incredible Hulk #442: Ross can't bring himself to shot as the Abomination steps forward and hits his gun away. He tells General Ross about his rage-filled relationship with the Hulk over the years. He related how he suffered humiliation and rejection and Betty married the Hulk and accepted him. He tells Ross how when Betty lie sick from radiation poisoning, he switched a bag of his blood tainted with deadly chemicals for the fresh blood that was supposed to be given to Betty, which helped kill her. He just wanted the Hulk and General Ross to feel the pain that he has. Just then, the Hulk reappears and hits the Abomination. The Hulk, who now knows who killed his wife, prepares to attack the Abomination when General Ross tells them to stop. The Abomination says that he will have his revenge and satisfaction. The Hulk looks around at all the artillery which has surrounded them and decides not to do anything. When he tells the Abomination he will not fight him, the Abomination jumps off, still ranting.

The Incredible Hulk #24: The Abomination, wrapped from head to toe, looks out the window while one of the students he is teaching in a writing class at a local library reads his story. The students don't know who he is but think that he has some type of skin cancer. He tells the student to stop and that he needs to write about something he understands. He then relates to his class the story of Emil (basically the history of the Abomination with a slight spin on it). He tells how Emil left his wife behind as he went to another country to steal their magic as a sense of duty to his country. The magic, though, turned him into a monster and he could never go home. His enemy is the magician (the Hulk) who created the magic that turned him into the monster, the man who stole his life from him. His wife thinks him dead and he realizes he has lost everything. To make his enemy feel how he does, he kills his enemy's wife (Betty). His enemy forgives him knowing that is the one thing Emil can not endure. Emil is totally without purpose and sleeps at the bottom of the sea each night, hoping that his life is actually a dream. His students ask if the story ends with Emil seeing his wife again and the Abomination says no and that "happy endings are for lazy writers." Elsewhere, Doc Samson is reading Bruce's letter when Bruce asks Samson why he lied to him about he being the merged Hulk when all along it was another persona. Samson says that he didn't have a choice because the savage Hulk was close to being loose and that he expected the real Bruce to regain control. Bruce accepts his apology. Bruce then talks about the Abomination killing Betty and that it was the Professor persona that forgave the Hulk, not him. He was never given a chance to accept Betty's death and he thinks about her a lot. The Abomination calls Nadia, his wife, at her dance class but doesn't say anything, just like he has done numerous times. He then walks away in the rain. The Abomination stands before a lake and thinks to himself about a letter to Nadia, which he will never send. The letter states how he wish he could explain to her why he has left her think he was dead all these years, how telling her now would ruin her life, and how he wishes he could see her just one more time as his nights are long and lonely. He slowly walks into the water, to sleep another night. Ross takes Bruce to a base and tells him how they have been tracking the Abomination and how he is teaching a writing class. Ross then takes Bruce and shows him Betty's preserved body. Bruce starts to freak out a little bit and his heart races. Ross says that it isn't his fault,that Emil took her away from them. Bruce first says he can't but then he welcomes the change as he turns into the Hulk. He jumps out of the base, in search of the Abomination to "smash" him. Ross goes to the body of Betty and restates his promise to make the person who did this to her pay.

The Incredible Hulk #25:Bruce sits on the ground in the pouring rain, thinking about how he just saw Betty's lifeless body and how the Abomination had something to do with her death. Bruce hears the Professor and Joe Fixit give their opinions. It switches to inside Bruce's mind where the Professor tries to convince Bruce to forgive the the Abomination. The Professor says that he is worried about Bruce's mind fracturing again. Bruce just gets angry and turns into the Savage Hulk. Out in the real world, the Hulk jumps away. The Abomination, disguised, tells his class that he regrets that he must move on due to circumstances. He leaves them some poetry he wrote especially for them. The government plant in the class calls up General Ross and tells him that the Abomination is going to leave. Ross tells the agent to trail the Abominationbut at a safe distance since "backup" will be arriving shortly. Ross looks at a scene where he is tracking the movement of the Hulk. The Abomination wakes up from his sleep in the lake as the Hulk jumps down and lands on him. The two start to fight as the Abomination wonders what took him so long to come after him. The Abomination figures that Bruce turning into the Savage Hulk will just make it easier for him to defeat him. General Ross watches the fight from the safety of a helicopter. The Abomination says that he was always the Hulk's superior in strength and tenacity. When the Abomination causes the Hulk to bleed, the Hulk gets mad and jumps at the Abomination, causing both to land in the lake. Doc Samson and Angela see news about the Hulk on tv. The Abomination has the Hulk in a chokehold underwater until the Hulk pushes them through a dam wall, flooding the town below. Luckily General Ross had had the townspeople evacuated. The Abomination climbs out of the water, thinking he has won, when the Hulk jumps out and starts the fight again. When the Abomination starts to mention Betty, the Hulk loses it and starts to pound on him. The Hulk refuses to accept Bettys' death as he continues to beat the Abomination. When the Abomination tells the Hulk to finish it and put them both out of their misery, the Hulk changes back into Bruce. The army arrives and Bruce tells Ross that he was used by him. Ross just says he did what he had to do to get his daughter's killer. Later, Bruce goes to where they are keeping the captive Abomination. They are using the same equipment that Ryker used on the Hulk which rendered him helpless. Bruce tells the Abomination that this is his last goodbye. The Abomination tells Bruce that he can do nothing more to hurt him. Bruce tells him about how the government spied on him when he was still back in Russia. Bruce shows a tape of the once-human Abomination talking to his wife about a trip he was going to go on (to spy on Bruce at the Gamma Base, but you already knew that, right?) where his wife says that she will always love him. The Abomination begs Bruce to turn it off but Bruce just says that it is on an endless loop and that he will have to watch it for the rest of his life. The Abomination begs for mercy but Bruce just walks away

The Incredible Hulk #50: Agents S-2 and S-3 use a gas and knock everyone unconscious at a secret military base in New Mexico. They go into the room in the base where the Hulk is still restrained, forced to watch the tapes. AGent S-3 shoots a dart inot the unconscious Abomination and then wake him up. They offer the Abomination a chance for freedom but then tell him they just implanted an explosive device and that if he tries to remove it, it will explode. The Abomination doesn't give a response so they show him pictures of Bruce Banner and the Hulk, saying they want him. Agent S-3 explains how all other attempts to capture the Hulk have failed and that if he helps them capture the Hulk, they will set him free and also remove the Hulk. The Abomination just starts to laugh, causing the whole building to shake. The two agents run out of the building. The agents come back later with a new DVD showing the Abomination's wife actually working near the base. And then they show Bruce Banner sleeping with her. This drives the Abomination over the edge, causing the building to start to crumble and sets himself free.

The Incredible Hulk #51:Agent S-3 tells the Abomination that if he helps then destroy the Hulk, they will take out the neck dart and reunite him with his wife Nadia, who she reminds is currently being intimate with Bruce Banner. Agent S-3 tells the Abomination that to show their intentions, she will release him from his magnetic bonds for a brief moment. As soon as she does, the Abomination reaches out and grabs her. Agent S-3 tells the Abomination that in order for the plan to work, he must stay at the base so he volunteerily goes back into the bonds.

The Incredible Hulk #52: Agent S-3 finalizes the deal with the Abomination telling him that they will arrange an earthquake cover story for what happens with him.

The Incredible Hulk #53: Agents S-2 and S-3 tell the Abomination where his wife is located at and that he must go to her since the Hulk will be with her. After he delivers the Hulk to them, they will remove the explosive dart. Unbeknownst to the Abomination, the same agency was telling Nadia that her time to kill her husband, the Abomination, was almost at hand. Agent S-3 double-crosses S-2 and the two start to fight. During the struggle, they accidently release the Abomination. The Abomination knocks the two agents out and leaves. The Abomination is shown walking through the desert and destroying a farm to get to the town. The Abomination tears up the town and sceams Nadia loudly at which point Nadia sneaks up behind him. The Abomination stands before Nadia and makes vague threats about hitting her. Nadia tells him that she knows about his agreement with the secret organization and that the organization made a deal with her also. She pulls out a detonator for the dart in his neck. Nadia points the detonator towards him and pushes the button but nothing happens and the Abomination starts laughing. Suddenly the Hulk appears on the scene.

The Incredible Hulk #54: The Abomination and Hulk face off against each other with the Abomination getting the first shot in. The Hulk starts bleeding as the Abomination hits him more as he talks about being locked up and having to watch old tape of his wife saying goodbye to him. Nadia comes up and tells him to stop it. As the Abomination continues to beat the Hulk, Nadia tells the Abomination that he knows what he did to Betty Ross. The Abomination throws the Hulk aside as Nadia asks what he was feeling all those times he was beating her when they were married. Nadia says that she was happy when she found out the Abomination was incarcerated and how she celebrated at which point the Abomination hits her. The Abomination starts to walk towards Nadia to discipline her more then the Hulk comes back and hits the Abomination right in the face. The Hulk starts to beat up the Abomination and tells him that he would love to snap his neck but in order to do that, he would have to let the Hulk take complete control and he doesn't want that to happen. The Abomination hits the Hulk with a bus at which point the Hulk turns back into Bruce Banner. The Abomination tells Bruce that he didn't believe all the stories the agents were telling him, he just came to kill the Hulk, that's it. The Abomination grabs Bruce and Bruce, still in control of the Hulk's strength in that form, surprises the Abomination and hits him. Bruce turns back into the Hulk and the two continue to fight. The Abomination starts to talk about Betty and the look in her eyes when he killed her. The Hulk lets loose and starts to really beat the Abomination. In the sky above, agents try to get a line on the Hulk to shoot him. Before they can do that, the Hulk lifts the limp body of the Abomination and throws it into the sky through the helicopter.