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Incredible Hulk #171

Jan 1974
Gerry Conway, Herb Trimpe

Incredible Hulk #171 cover

Story Name:

Revenge!


Synopsis

Incredible Hulk #171 synopsis by Fredrik Jullum
Rating: 4 stars
Image from Incredible Hulk #171

Our hero, the incredible Hulk, is hiding in a box inside a plane that’s bringing Betty Ross back to the base. As the plane lands, Betty reunites with her father, Thunderbolt Ross. Hulk, now reverted to Bruce Banner, sneaks out of the plane, and climbs down a valve to get inside the base.

Meanwhile, two mysterious figures are hiding inside a hangar while pointing a massive gun (possibly a tank) out of the door. They fire on a plane nearby, blowing it up. Colonel John Armbruster plans an attack on the hangar when the two figures get out and start attacking the base itself. It turns out to be.. Oooh, the suspense.. Rhino and Abomination!

No big surprise there, as they were on the cover. The Abomination knocks Ross, while Rhino takes Betty hostage.

Meanwhile, Jim Wilson and his girlfriend Talia are on their way to the base, but soldiers stop them. Bruce, who’s been hiding in a room side the base, now takes a walk, and finds the prisoners in one cell designed for Hulk. But then, Abomination attacks him from behind. Unsurprisingly, Banner turns into Hulk and knocks the Abomination down.

Now it’s Rhino’s turn to attack from behind. Hulk isn’t thrilled about everybody attacking him, and knocks down the Rhino as well.

Meanwhile, Abomination has found a laser gun, and starts firing at Hulk. Hulk doesn’t like guns, so he knocks down a wall and walks away, while Abomination and Rhino make another plan.

Later, Jim and Taila have snack into the base, and sneak around trying to figure out what’s going on, when they bump into the Hulk. Hulk fills Jim in on what he remembers, and they make a plan to beat the villain monsters.

Rhino and Abomination are in the control room, getting ready for whatever they’re planning, when Talia suddenly runs past the door. The two follow in case she heard anything about a certain bomb, but Hulk attacks them once they climb up a ladder. Jim climbs down the ladder, and goes to the cell to talk to Ross. Ross tells Jim about the Gamma-bomb that’s part of the base’s self-destruction mechanism (am I the only one who thinks that’s a bad idea?)

Abomination has started the mechanism, so the base, and Hulk, will go sky high in less than 3 minutes. Ross sends Jim off to turn off the bomb while guiding him along the way and stops the countdown right before the base blows up.

Now back to the battle between Rhino, Abomination and Hulk. After trading some punches, Hulk gets bored, and walks away while both of the villains storm him from the opposite side. The two collide, and the impact makes a crater. Ow! So everything is over, the villains defeated, and Hulk is the hero of the day, for once. Even Ross congratulates him...

Then Armbruster suddenly captures Hulk in one Hulk-Capturing-Devices, ruining everything. Yeah. To be continued...

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Collects Incredible Hulk (1968) #157-178; material from FOOM (1973) #1-2.

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Characters

Listed in alphabetical order. All stories.

Abomination
Abomination

(Emil Blonsky)
Betty Ross
Betty Ross

(Elizabeth Ross)
Bruce Banner
Bruce Banner

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Colonel Armbruster
Colonel Armbruster

(John D. Armbruster)
Hulk
Hulk

(Robert Bruce Banner)
Thunderbolt Ross
Thunderbolt Ross

(Thaddeus Ross)


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