Thing’s friend Sharon Ventura goes to Power Broker, who gives abilities to people so they can wrestle in the super-wrestling league, and becomes the new Ms. Marvel. Basically, this is just an origin story—and the end of the Thing series.
What’s really odd is that Sharon gets cover billing as the new Ms. Marvel, but nowhere in either of these two issues does she get a big, triumphant, in-costume name announcement. Usually, that’s what happens when someone announces their super-name for the first time.
Instead, she connects with some old relatives, and one of them suggests that she looks like Ms. Marvel.
But she really doesn’t.
Along the way, we learn that the wrestlers have to take pills or else they will further mutate as a result of Power Broker’s “gifts” to them, which explains why all these heroes stayed with the wrestling league: They’re addicts and he’s their pusher. So they fight to maintain their supply after Thing and Sharon try to shut it all down.
She-Hulk shows up to help, and uses Thing’s catch phrase.
It ends with Thing himself being mutated, and running away because he’s so horrified by his own looks.
Here’s the final panel:
This story will, presumably, be picked up in West Coast Avengers, where Thing is a member.
On the letters page, editor Mark Gruenwald tells us that Thing had to be cancelled to make way for a Nick Fury limited series. But that never happened.