During a lightning storm, Wrecker tells Franklin and fellow prisoners Henry Camp and Brian Calusky to grip the weapon simultaneously.

The Wrecking Crew have battled the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, Iron Fist, the Runaways, Spider-Man, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Alpha Flight, Hulk, She-Hulk, the Thunderbolts and the X-Men, but their main foe is Thor.

[7] The Wrecking Crew's most notorious act was to participate in the near-fatal beating of the hero Hercules during a siege of Avengers Mansion by the fourth incarnation of Masters of Evil led by Baron Helmut Zemo.

[10] During the Civil War crossover event, the Wrecking Crew is forced to join the Thunderbolts Army or face additional jail time.

[12] After being defeated by Omega Flight, they are imprisoned in a jail in Manitoba, but manage to escape[13] and return to the United States, where they are recruited to join the Hood's crime syndicate.

During the "Secret Invasion" storyline, the Wrecking Crew are among the many supervillains who rejoined the Hood's crime syndicate and attacked an invading Skrull force.

[17] During the "Search for Tony Stark" story arc, the Wrecking Crew rejoin the Hood's gang as they attack Castle Doom.

[21] The Wrecking Crew appear in the Marvel Rising motion comic, with Wrecker voiced by J. P. Karliak and Bulldozer and Piledriver by John DiMaggio.