As with Hell and the Devil in the last
two issues, the plot of this issue pauses periodically for a
definition of the Hulk: which emanation of the divine is he, Geburah,
strength in righteousness, or Golachab, strength in destruction?
The One Below All floats over Hell,
vomiting out hordes of gruesome monsters and the emaciated Hulk
battles them. The ghost of Brian Banner watches with approval and
the dead Rick Jones converts into the dead A-Bomb to aid the Hulk.
Puck lectures the Absorbing Man on the nature of Gamma as both
science and magic and the One Below All has maneuvered Creel into
absorbing the Gamma from Hulk. Creel then confronts Brian Banner—and
returns all of his absorbed Gamma to Hulk, who is instantly his old
familiar muscle-bound self again. Hulk faces Brian Banner who denies
that Hulk is his son: he calls Hulk the son of the One Below All.
Hulk responds with “Hulk is Hulk!” and a thunderclap that sends
Brian and the One flying into the distance....
Hulk approaches a terrified Bruce Banner
and tells him that they must go back to their world together
if they want to survive. Bruce wants to die but Hulk reminds him he
was always there to protect him—because Hulk loves Bruce....
Back on Earth, Jackie McGee, Puck, and
Crusher Creel find a confused Walter Langkowski. Puck invites Creel
to join Gamma Flight. Jackie is disturbed about meeting her dead
father, wondering where Hulk is. Meanwhile, Carl Burbank Bushwacker
is still watching them....
At midnight, Betty Ross receives
a strange phone call that turns out to be from Bruce, asking if he
can come home....