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Volstok, Russia: Father-son inventors Igor and Anton Vanko are working in their lab when their village is attacked by someone who appears to be Iron Man. Anton sends his father to the safety of a shelter while he fires at the attacker with a laser weapon. The entire city is destroyed, including the shelter, but Anton manages to blow some of the enemy’s armor off….Six months later, Tony Stark is brought up on charges at the International Criminal Court at the Hague. Surveillance photos and witnesses show Iron Man as the attacker, presumably hired by Vladimir Putin to destroy Volstok, center of a resistance movement against him. The biosignature picked up from the attacker belongs to Tony Stark. Tony has no alibi for the day of the attacks, working alone in his lab. A huge payment of cash was made to Stark’s account around the time of the attack. Red Guardian testifies how when he and Crimson Dynamo sought to capture Stark he donned the Iron Man armor and fought back like a guilty man until Pepper Potts advised him via radio to surrender. The evidence is overwhelming….In Volstok, Anton Vanko creates a suit out of the armor shot off of Iron Man, complete with electric whips, vowing revenge against Stark as Whiplash….


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At the International Criminal Court Detention Center in the Hague, Tony Stark in a makeshift Iron Man armor battles Whiplash, who is intent on killing him for revenge. But Tony has only six minutes before the power overload causes the suit to explode. They fight as Tony counts down the seconds, afraid that the villain will kill Pepper Potts next. As he and Pepper run for the chopper, Tony routes all the power into his helmet and hurls it at Whiplash; it explodes but the villain is protected by his own armor. He lashes onto the chopper but Tony is able to scrape him off against a rooftop and get away….The mystery villains connect Whiplash’s armor to the Volstok attack and conclude that if he and Tony Stark get together, their operation will be blown….Tony and Pepper check into a Swiss hotel incognito and make plans. Tony has a piece of Whiplash’s armor and needs to visit his lab back at Stark headquarters back in the USA. One intercontinental flight later and Tony, dressed in Scuba gear, breaks into the building via the water system. He is caught by a couple of guards who try to capture him but he gasses them and proceeds to the lab. There, he checks the security logs on the nights he was recorded as being there when he was away and, to his surprise, he sees film of himself entering the building….Whiplash has hacked into the Stark computers and knows Stark has access to his best armor again….And the mystery villains calculate that they have forty-five minutes until Stark finds them, so they have their army of deformed Tony Stark clones suit up….


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Tony Stark is shocked to see an image of himself entering the lab on a date when he wasn’t there; an alarm goes off and he dons the Iron Man armor and fights off a squadron of guards, rocketing to freedom out through several levels of ceiling. Pepper Potts, studying the security records, discovers that “Tony Stark” has been making several visits to the lab and leaving with maybe hundreds of pieces of Stark tech. Tony’s scan of implanted tracking devices locates all of the missing tech in Japan….Whiplash, hacking into the Stark computers from a café in Amsterdam, learns Stark is going to Japan, dons his armor and hops on his glider and sets out for East Asia….Iron Man knows that Whiplash has been monitoring his communications and is luring him to Japan for the final showdown with the mystery villains who have stolen his tech. Shellhead breaks into the villains’ well-constructed lair, followed almost immediately by Whiplash. Whiplash explains he is Anton Vanko, seeking revenge against Stark for destroying his home village of Volstok; Tony shows him a room full of stolen Iron Man armors. They are then attacked by an army of Stark clones wearing various versions of the armor, there is a battle which sets the place on fire, causing the reactor to overload—but first, Iron Man and Whiplash catch the two mystery men who explain they are part of a consortium funded by several of the world’s governments, including that of the USA. Their mission was to obtain Stark technology and the method they chose was to clone Tony Stark and have “him” steal the tech for them. Vladimir Putin had a fake Iron Man destroy Volstok to wipe out an anti-Putin movement and its leader Igor Vanko. Iron Man has to fight Whiplash to stop him from killing the nameless bad guys but as the reactor overloads, Vanko escapes and Tony is able to get out with the bad guys, leaving his clones to be destroyed in a massive explosion. The baddies are turned over to the UN, Tony has Volstok rebuilt as a Stark factory and Anton Vanko? He’s hanging out near the Kremlin, hoping for revenge against his real enemy….


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Life & Liberty
Iron Man and Captain America come
rolling onto the shore of a Caribbean island inside a force bubble
generated by Shellhead; they come immediately under fire first by
automated defenses then an A.I.M. flying squadron. They work together
to defeat their enemies but all is not right between them....Flashbacks explain: Cap was fighting an
A.I.M. detail in service of the villain Mentallo. Using a stasis
field stolen from Reed Richards, Mentallo has been able to amplify
his telepathic powers to a godlike level—and proceeds to take over
the minds of everyone on Earth—with one exception: Tony Stark,
whose circuitry shields him from any mental takeover. Tony's
consciousness is sucked into cyberspace where he battles Mentallo;
the ESPer is stronger but when Tony's Iron man identity is suddenly
revealed, the villain is so surprised that Tony is able to overcome
him and erase the knowledge of his identity from his mind. While
connected to all minds on Earth, Tony also takes the opportunity to
wipe his secret from everyone''s brains. Back in the real world Cap
and SHIELD clean up the A.I.M. Base, freeing ten hostages from
cryotubes but not able to understand what happened to the
now-comatose Mentallo....Flashback Part 2: Iron Man reveals his
secret identity to his Avengers partners but Cap is disturbed. The
star-spangled Avenger resents Tony having taken it upon himself to
mess with people''s minds; the Golden Avenger argues that it was
relativity harmless and all for the best. The two cannot come to
agreement with Cap standing for individual freedom and Shellhead for
the good of the group. They are then informed by SHIELD that the ten
comatose hostages shows an aberrant pattern: Iron Man recognizes it
and he and Cap head toward the Caribbean island labs of Dr. Mark
Cushing. On arrival, their Quinjet is shot down, leading into page 1
of the issue....And now, having disposed o the A.I.M.
Defense forces, the two Avengers move inland and discover—Zenith
City, a free and perfect society founded by the late Dr. Cushing.
Cushing was a brilliant researcher for Stark who came up with
Operation: Gengineering, which would give physical and mental
perfection to the old and the ill—but also rob them of
individuality, creating a hivemind. Leaving Stark Industries, Cushing
created his perfect city on this island where a transmitter in the
town spire turned the citizens into the human ideal—and then A.I.M.
discovered them. Cushing chose to die rather than reveal the secrets
of Gengineering to the villains and A.I.M. Took ten citizens to power
Mentallo''s brain machine (seen in the flashbacks). Now MODOK knows
the two Avengers are on the island and alters the treatment beam to
command the citizens to destroy Cap and Iron Man. The heroes try to
reach the spire and turn off the machine but MODOK uses the psionic
power of the people to give himself a giant mental form. Cap uses his
hologram shield to disrupt MODOK's energy matrix and Shellhead's
repulsors destroy it the rest of the way. With a massive A.I.M.
attack force on their way, Tony fixes the transmitter so that when it
is shut down, the citizens will not die but revert to their original
frail forms, robbing A.I.M. of any benefit they may get. The
groupmind tells Tony they would rather be killed fighting A.I.M. than
revert to what they once were. It is Cap's decision: to let the
people have their way—or to make the choice for them. He throws the
switch....Epilogue One: As SHIELD takes care of
the former citizens of Zenith City, Cap tells Iron Man he understands
Tony's position....
Epilogue Two: Tony re-reveals his
secret identity to Pepper and Happy Hogan; they feel betrayed and so
Tony comes to understand Steve''s position on individual freedom....


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Rubicon
In the wake of the murder of Goliath (Bill Foster) during the confrontation over the Superhuman Registration Act, Iron Man and Captain America meet in the ruins of Avengers Mansion to see if there can be a peaceful resolution to the civil war. Both men are distraught over the tragic turn taken by recent events and with effort manage to put away their recriminations and settle down to talk. Iron Man reminds Cap of how they have always gotten along, even when they were on opposite sides, as in the Armor Wars (IRON MAN #228); Cap asks Tony to remove his faceplate so he can talk to a person. Tony starts with a reminiscence of the first time they fought, when Iron Man thought Cap was the villain Chameleon in disguise (TALES OF SUSPENSE #58) and recalls how then they could settle things with a simple apology. Tony asks why Steve is so adamant in his opposition to the Registration Act, pointing out that they agreed on the basic idea when dealing with the Young Avengers and their need for training (YOUNG AVENGERS #7). Tony then argues that if Spider-Man had been trained, Gwen Stacy might not have died; Steve responds that the reason Gwen died was because the Green Goblin knew Spidey’s identity—and the same thing happened to White Tiger and USAgent, the murder of their loved ones by enemies who learned their real names. He dismisses Tony’s insistence that all identities will be known only to the authorities, pointing out that databases can be hacked and political changes can turn the government against heroes, as happened to Cap when he became Nomad and The Captain. Tony responds with the event that began the controversy: the disaster at Stamford (CIVIL WAR #1); it happened because some young heroes did something stupid—and it could have happened to anyone, no matter how experienced. Tony recalls the time he fought Machine Man while drunk (IRON MAN #168) and nearly killed some bystanders, who were saved ironically by the enemy he was fighting. Cap had to rescue Tony once himself (IRON MAN #172). To Tony this is an issue of accountability—and the heroes cannot be trusted to continue to police themselves, as they did when Hank beat Jan. But Cap is concerned about false accusations: it has happened to both Iron Man (IRON MAN #124) and Cap (CAPTAIN AMERICA #169-170). Tony accuses Steve of using his iconic status to recruit supporters to his cause; Steve responds that Tony has a history of manipulating others into doing what he wants, as he did during Operation Galactic Storm (AVENGERS #347) and the Armor Wars (IRON MAN #227-228). Tony reveals the government’s plan called Operation Wideawake: using an army of Sentinels to hunt down superhumans. The violence is escalating and Tony doesn’t know how to stop it. Steve advises him to oppose the Act, but Tony reminds him that the cause is bigger than Tony: if Iron Man switched sides, he would merely be replaced by Reed Richards or Hank Pym. If Cap joined the opposition, however, his faction would collapse. A disgusted Cap turns to leave and Tony grabs his shoulder. Cap reacts with anger so Tony strips down to his Extremis undergarment and the two fight. They recall the time Cap taught Tony some basic martial arts moves (IRON MAN #125) and the battle echoes that friendlier contest. After a brief mix-up, the two dust themselves off, and, realizing that nothing will be resolved, go their separate ways, as they recall the parting after the friendlier fight and their assurance of mutual support.


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“Iron Man: Fast Friends”Writer: Paul Tobin. Pencils: Ronan Cliquet. Colors: Chris Sotomayor. Letters: Nate Piekos.Part one: The Iron: Tony Stark is scheduled to demonstrate a new weapon but his pal James Rhodes tries to convince him he does not need to make a personal appearance in Afghanistan. Tony leaves Pepper Potts to give the details to the Generals while he talks Rhodey into visiting a nightclub. There, Tony blows off any serious talk about the dangers while he flirts with two attractive women he’s picked up, even giving away military secrets. A jealous guy whose girl was stolen by Tony punches him, leading to Rhodey fighting the guy and still vainly trying to convince him to stay out of Afghanistan….Part two: Keep This Quiet: After Tony Stark has donned the Iron Man armor and defeated Obadiah Stane in the bigger armor, Tony and Rhodey are brought to a secret installation where Phil Coulson gives them a tour of the new SHIELD headquarters. SHIELD has worked out an elaborate protocol for Tony working with them as Iron Man, which, Coulson stresses, will only work if Tony keeps his dual identity secret. So, of course at the next press conference, Tony proclaims, “I am Iron Man”….“Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files”Writer: Frank Tieri. Art: Salva Espin. Colors: Guru eFX  & Chris Sotomayor. Letters: Nate Piekos.A disguised Nick Fury sits with Bruce Banner in a bar, hoping to check him out as a possible super-soldier. They chat about sports and Bruce goes to leave; Agent Daisy Johnson flirts with him and Agent Peterson plays the jealous boyfriend to pick a fight with Bruce to see what happens. What happens is Bruce turns into the Hulk and threatens to wreck the place. Fury talks him out of destruction so Hulk just roars in his face, smashes through a wall, and heads off into the night…..At a SHIELD meeting later, Fury informs the team that Banner is not the super-soldier they are looking for and leaves him to be General Ross’ problem….“Nick Fury: Spies Like Us”Writer: Joe Caramagna. Art: Hugo Petras. Colors: Chris Sotomayor. Letters: Rus Wooton.Synopsis: Toward the end of the Cold War, Nick Fury and Agent Escobar are in Budapest, looking for a Soviet agent named Verliecki. At a bar, Fury scares a local into giving him an address; they go there and break in but Verliecki is waiting for them and there is a big fight over a briefcase full of secrets. With the enemy agent overcome, Escobar draws his gun on Fury, hoping to sell the briefcase to the Soviets and disappear with the money. Verliecki thumps him on the head and he is left for the KGB with false ID claiming he is Nick Fury. It was all a ruse to get Escobar the mole to reveal himself. Fury heads home to celebrate with Dum Dum Dugan and the gang….


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God Complex (Part Three)
Inside the conceptual space that is Diablo’s Secret Hermetica, Iron Man and Ulik are battling furiously. Outside in the Smithsonian Museum, Thor is engaged in combat with the Crimson Dynamo. With the aid of his dragon, Thor vanquishes his foe and enters the Hermetica just as Diablo overpowers Shellhead with a mystical gas. The Thunder God demands an explanation from the High Evolutionary; instead Diablo casts a spell which causes the two Avengers to see each other as the enemy and forces them to fight. As they are occupied, Crimson Dynamo and Ulik easily overcome them and they are integrated into the apparatus, with Iron Man supplying the technological factor and Thor the divine ingredient. In view of Iron Man’s unsuitability for the role of new god, Diablo makes a suggestion to the High Evolutionary: that the master scientist becomes his own subject. The process is begun as the heroes awaken, and the High Evolutionary discovers that, through Diablo’s trickery, it is the sinister alchemist who is fused with the Destroyer, achieving godhood….


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God Complex (Part One)
In the Carpathian Mountains, a hulking brute invades the castle of Baron Mordo, slaughters his monstrous servitors, and makes off with the magic amulet that hangs around the sorcerer’s neck….
In an unnamed dictatorship (dude, it’s North Korea; that’s Kim Jong Il standing there), Moses Magnum demonstrates his state-of-the-art orbital weapons platform, with advanced cloaking technology so that no other nation has detected it. As the demonstration proceeds, an armored figure, impervious to weapons fire, pierces the platform, emerging on the other side with an important component clutched in a red gauntlet, as the platform explodes behind him….
At the site of the destroyed Asgard in Broxton, Oklahoma, Thor stands in a bleak reverie, and Iron Man is overseeing a crew of high-tech workers as they clear the ruins in search of survivors of the disaster (see SIEGE for details). Someone is detected under the rubble but it turns out to be a huge fire-breathing dragon. And it’s angry too. Iron Man rescues his workers as Thor tries to subdue the monster—then Volstagg steps forward to claim it as his pet. Iron Man then receives an emergency call from Steve Rogers, telling him that there has been an experimental disaster in Russia and that they are asking for Tony Stark’s help in containing a black hole. Iron Man rushes to the scene, but it is a trap and he is attacked by a larger, magically upgraded Crimson Dynamo. Meanwhile back in Asgard, the workers have uncovered the Destroyer armor just as Ulik the Troll King, his body enhanced by science comes to claim it. Thor fights him—and is stunned to discover that his enemy can deflect a blow from Mjolnir. Ulik hits back, flattening Thor. In Russia, Iron Man is subdued by his foe and seized by a giant version of the High Evolutionary, who intends to build a god for the 21st century, and Iron Man will be the raw material….


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God Complex (Part Two)
In the ruins of Asgard, Thor is engaged in battle with Ulik the Troll whose strength has been augmented by scientific means. Diablo the Master of Alchemy appears and uses a potion to render the Destroyer armor inert and easy to remove. As Thor calls down lightning from the sky, the alchemist casts a spell which causes the bolts to hit the God of Thunder himself. When the smoke clears the two villains are gone, the dangerous Destroyer armor with them….
Iron Man awakens in a dark version of the traditional heaven. The High Evolutionary disables the armor so he can converse with Tony Stark. He introduces Tony to a conceptual environment where his New Men carry out his researches and experiments. The Evolutionary explains his latest plan to Tony: he intends to create a new god for the 21st century, combining the mystery of the diving with the essence of science and to that end he is blending advanced technology with arcane devices. He then informs Tony that he will be the vessel for this new God. Diablo, Ulik, and Crimson Dynamo arrive with the Destroyer armor, which will be another component of the project. Tony eagerly agrees to be part of the project—stalling to give his armor’s security system the time to counter the High Evolutionary’s immobilization device.
Meanwhile, Thor has used a dragon as a bloodhound to track Diablo to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. There, in an exhibit of alchemical treatises, Thor finds a picture of Diablo’s Hermetica and is drawn in to the conceptual space. Crimson Dynamo forces the Thunder God back into the museum for battle just as the immobilization device is rendered inert. Iron Man powers up his armor, ready to face his foes….


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God Complex (Part Four)
Gloating that his manipulation of the High Evolutionary has paid off, Diablo proclaims himself a new god and begins drawing divine energy from the other pantheons. Thor and Iron Man escape from the apparatus and quickly take out Ulik and the Crimson Dynamo to confront Diablo. The godlike alchemist responds by exiting the conceptual space—and coming face-to-face with Thor’s dragon. Unaware that as a deity he is immune to harm, he panics and returns to the lab. Iron Man has Thor channel divine transformative energy through him and he blasts the villain….
When the smoke clears, Tony’s armor is depowered again and Thor has transformed back into Don Blake. Together they punch Diablo in the face. The sudden rush of god power back to its pantheons causes the Hermetica to collapse. The High Evolutionary is rescued by his New Men as Thor and Iron Man return to the museum. The two heroes carry off the Destroyer armor and head back to Asgard, as the ancient illuminated manuscript that housed Diablo’s Hermetica, now shows the building has a prisoner….


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Part 2: Smashing Seattle
Tony Stark and James Rhodes are in the lab, testing Tony’s new Personal Defense Armor a/k/a the Evader, which Rhodey notes seems to be including more weaponry with each revision. Rhodey questions Tony’s former resolve to stop selling weapons; Tony shrugs it off….Tony plays racquetball with prospective client Roland Kinison; Kinison subtly bumps into Tony, causing him to miss the ball. Tony responds by tripping Kinison who reacts in anger and refuses to do business with Stark. Tony’s girlfriend Rumiko Fujikawa, who witnessed the game, questions why Tony would do that. Tony doesn’t care, all that matters is that he won….Elsewhere, Justin Hammer is getting another report from his aide Phillip Barnett and we get only vague hints again. Time for his therapy, Hammer unlatches his boots and falls straight up into a pool….Pepper expresses her concerns about Tony to Rhodey so he goes to the lab to check up on Tony. There he finds Iron Man, who has learned that the police are about to raid Spymaster’s lair and he wants to get there first to take revenge….The SWAT team surrounds the building but Iron Man flies over their heads and through the wall. He meets Spymaster who has newly upgraded armor and weapons. The two battle, trading blows which the other always counters. The villain tries to fly off in his huge aircraft and Shellhead hurls a car at him sending his ship crashing into the restaurant atop the Space Needle. They grapple together and plummet to the street. Iron Man’s armor is damaged but Spymaster’s isn’t. Tony fires his repulsors on wide dispersal and Spymaster can’t absorb that many attacks and overloads. The baddie draws a gun but Iron Man seizes it crushing the gun—and the hand holding it—to pulp. The police point out that his wide angled shooting has wounded civilians and damaged a lot of property behind the villain; the Golden Avenger doesn’t care: he stopped the bad guy….At the lab, Rhodey tries to talk to Tony but the inventor is preoccupied with work on the Evader; Rhodey grabs his shoulder to get his attention and Stark angrily points a breach gun at Rhodey’s head and squeezes the trigger but it was powered down. The unnerved Rhodey confronts Tony about it. Tony admits he did something stupid: next time, he’ll make sure the gun is loaded….


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Part 1: A Gathering Dark
Tony Stark is vacationing on his yacht, when suddenly the ship is enveloped in an energy shield. Spymaster’s Espionage Elite swoop down on sky cycles planning to kidnap Tony, secure in the knowledge that Iron Man will not be able to pierce the shield. What they don’t know is that Iron Man is already inside; Tony dons the armor then flies out to engage the enemy, only to recognize them as the thugs who beat him up in Paris. Shellhead wrecks the sky-cycles, two by magnetizing them together in flight and they crash into a nearby research vessel, and terrifying the last member of the gang into surrendering by threatening to slice off the arm he’s holding a detonator with. In port, the authorities count four prisoners with another missing and presumed dead. He also rescues the occupants of the other ship and refers the police to Jim Rhodes’ salvage company….Later at home, he tells Pepper Potts about his new idea: mass-producing a single-use armor called an escape suit to be marketed to other executive who may run into deadly danger. And he blows off Happy Hogan wanting authorization for a large purchase….Elsewhere, Phillip Barnett tells Justin Hammer about Iron Man’s defeating the bad guys by terrifying them and Hammer is pleased. Meanwhile, a cat flies through the air behind them….While testing the disposable armor, Tony is reminded to pick up James Rhodes at the airport. As they drive back toward the base, a laser stretched across the road, shears off the top of the car, causing them to crash. Rhodey is knocked out and Tony can’t reach the case with his armor. It’s the last member of the Espionage Elite, presumed dead, back and seeking revenge. Tony flees gunfire and finds his way to a burned out lodge. He hides in the storeroom, placing a tank of propane against the door. When the gunman tries shooting off the lock, Tony leaps out of the window as the propane explodes. Tony then attacks the injured bad guy, beating him brutally until Rhodey makes him stop….The next day, Tony calls Happy into the office. He rebukes Happy for making that purchase without his okay and then coldly tells him he’s fired….


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Part 3: Enemy Mind
James Rhodes tells Happy Hogan about the time Iron Man left off fighting Blacklash to rescue Rhodey and other workers who were trapped in a burning hangar, even carrying off burning fuel that could have killed him even with the armor. Which is why they are so puzzled that Tony Stark has turned so mean and amoral….Rhodey picks up Tony’s car from the repair shop (it was damaged in issue #1) and heads to his home. He discovers that the security system has been reprogrammed to deny him entrance but it turns out he can still get in via the garage. He logs on to Tony’s computer but Jocasta denies him entrance too….Tony Stark has sold all prototypes of his new Evader personal armor and sees them off at the airport, while he doesn’t know why he sold them for such a low price. What he doesn’t see is a special craft that leaves the jet and flies into space….Elsewhere, Justin Hammer gloats over his history with Tony Stark and now he has the upper hand….Rhodey pleads with Jocasta to show him Tony’s biological data to try to figure out why he has changed but her programming will not allow it—but she finds a way around her programming to give Rhodey what he wants to know….At the Seattle Aerospace Center, Tony is overseeing the addition of his Jupiter Landing Vehicle; he is told that security is high because they have the protoype of the world’s first Negative Energy Condenser. A Stark technician has been bribed so he steals the prototype and takes off in the Jupiter craft’s escape pod. Tony changes to Iron Man and smacks the pod straight down, destroying it, the lander, and the prototype and putting the thief into a coma. The museum manager is angry with Tony but he responds with more anger and walks out, plotting to create his own Negative Energy Condenser….Jocasta tells Rhodey she has detected stealth cells in Tony’s body, coated in a protein that hides them from the immune system and increasing hormone production, leading to Tony’s personality change—and if they aren’t removed soon, the change could become permanent. Rhodey suggests that they look for a way to remove the protein shell, allowing the immune system to destroy them. Jocasta says it can be done but Tony might die in the process….When Tony returns, Rhodey tries to inject him with the remedy but Tony fights him off and utters the fail-safe word that shuts Jocasta down. He then maneuvers Rhodey into a painful stasis field while he starts to armor up; Rhodey manages to push his way out and inject Tony. Both men fall to the floor but only one heartbeat is heard….


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Part 4: Terminal Space
Iron Man comes to after fainting at the end of the last issue; he discovers James Rhodes without a heartbeat and applies a measured charge to get his heart working again. It succeeds and Rhodey learns that Tony is normal again. They try to learn who the likely culprit is and Jocasta informs them that the Evader prototypes have been flown to an orbiting satellite whose ownership is carefully hidden. Tony and Rhodey both deduce Justin Hammer….Iron Man in his new space armor flies out to the satellite and walks in through the front door, only to be confronted by a guard wearing an Evader armor prototype. Their fight leads them into space where Tony has a tough time against another armor he designed. Soon, Tony recalls that the jet boots have limited fuel and he draws the guy out until the boots conk out and the guy plunges toward Earth; Iron Man rescues him and they return to the satellite. Inside, Iron Man faces three more guards in Evader armor. He runs from them and they fire, putting a hole in a feed tube which fills the passage with bubbles; Shellhead uses the cover of the bubbles to take down two of the guards. When the third one realizes it’s just him against Iron Man, he runs for his life. Iron Man is heading for the control module when he is caught in a stasis field and Hammer appears, informing Tony that he knows his secret identity….Elsewhere, the fleeing guard tries to fly a shuttle out of there but to his horror the door doesn’t open and he crashes inside the station, heavily damaging it….Hammer also reveals that he is dying of an incurable disease; he moved to the satellite to prolong his life and decided to spend his final days defeating Tony Stark. He had Spymaster’s thugs inject Tony with the rogue cells when they beat him up in Paris (IRON MAN (1998 series) #8) and Tony spotting the baddies again (issue #1 of this miniseries) accelerated their growth. And now Hammer gloats. He spots his aide Phillip Barnett taking off for Earth in another escape pod and blows it up by remote control; the force rocks the station, hurling Hammer into the pool. Iron Man detonates a small bomb, destroying the stasis field but the shock has stunned him. He tosses another bomb toward the pool and it takes out the side of the station, sucking the water into space and instantly freezing with Hammer inside. Shellhead’s emergency circuits guide him back to Earth…,Later, Tony reinstates Happy Hogan and tells Rhodey that SHIELD cleaned up the station, recovering the Evader armors, and rescuing the cat. As for Hammer? Frozen in orbit, he may just live forever….


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Iron Man's fight with Mandarin last issue ended with Shellhead wrapped in metal tape attached to the stone columns from which it's strands issued. Mandarin thinks he's won.But Iron Man fires his boot jets and flies up into the air, pulling the columns apart below him. As he smashes through the roof of Mandarin's throne room the shards of tape fall from him. And he turns back and hurls himself into his foe.Mandarin temporarily stuns the Golden Avenger with a force blast, and runs away to his control room. Angered and shamed he orders his servant Po to divert the captured orbital platform from the initial plan (which we never find out about). Instead he uses a tractor beam to send the satellite plummeting towards Beijing, to start his war against humanity with a spectacle.Iron Man trashes the control room and then jets off to stop the satellite. He manages to push it back into space, and then destroys it. The blast now sends him crashing towards Beijing. But he pulls out of the dive and heads back to Mandarin's fortress. Which he finds deserted.Later SHIELD Agents Burroughs and Sands come to complain to Tony Stark that IM let Mandarin get away. Tony reminds them that he saved Beijing and retrieved the armaments Mandarin stole (in #4). He also reminds them that he helped create SHIELD. And he's considering recommending Nick Fury to replace Rick Stoner as Director.


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We begin with a very abbreviated origin of the Mandarin, descendant of Genghis Khan, in China in 1954, from Tales of Suspense #62. He enters the Valley of the Spirits, discovers an ancient crashed spaceship with long-dead aliens, and a source of power.Several decades later, Tony Stark's busy life continues apace. He wakes up next to supermodel Veronica Vogue, goes to Stark Industries where Anton Vanko is waiting for him, alongside executive secretary Pepper Potts and chauffeur Happy Hogan, sparring as usual. Vanko wants to run a laser demonstration, and he'll use his Crimson Dynamo armour if Iron Man isn't available. Pepper informs Tony that Rick Stoner of SHIELD wants to see Iron Man, alone.Next day Iron Man visits SHIELD and is told they want him to investigate the existence of someone called the Mandarin.Mandarin himself greets a Chinese military delegation headed by Gen'l Ho Lee. The People's Republic hopes to get Mandarin's support against Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian who is firmly opposed to joining Taiwan to the Communist rest of China. The Communist Chinese hope that Mandarin's former position in the pre-Communist Kuomintang party will incline him to support their alliance with the Taiwanese Pan-Blue Coalition, which includes the remains of the Kuomintang. They also hope he will 'forget' that the Communist party stripped him of his power and status when they took over (as seen in ToS#62).Mandarin of course doesn't treat this request kindly.A stealth bomber drops Iron Man near Mandarin's castle. He creeps in through a sewer, but Mandarin is waiting for him inside. Shellhead is totally outmatched by Mandarin's rings, and is easily captured. But Mandarin's servants can't remove his armour.Iron Man wakes up in a cell surrounded by laser beams. Bur he short-circuits the security system and escapes his cell. Mandarin is pleased as he dons his battle robes. He relishes the challenge, confidant of winning. So the battle commences.


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Last issue Mandarin's son Temugin, under his father's hypnotic control, shot Tony Stark. Now he realises that Stark has survived because of his chestplate. And he also makes the connection - Stark is Iron Man!As Temugin fires again, Stark uses the uni-beam on his chest to blind him. Temugin lashes out with some karate moves. But Stark escapes with the briefcase containing his armour. His opponent follows him into a liftshaft and they wind up fighting hanging from the lift support cables. The fight ends as Temugin falls down the shaft. But he shoots Stark's briefcase out of his hand as he falls, and the pieces of Iron Man armour fall out.Temugin grabs the cables further down. Stark sends a remote command for the armour to self-destruct. He leaps onto the top of a lift car to avoid the blast. When the smoke clears he can't see Temugin. And his security team can't find any trace of the guy later.Immediately afterwards Tony gets called to see SHIELD Agents Sands and Burroughs. They are concerned about Mandarin stealing weapons that the CIA were supplying to various Asian rebels (as seen last issue). But even more problematic is that they have detected attempts to take control of a SHIELD orbital platform that Stark designed.Tony tries to counter the takeover attempt remotely from a SHIELD computer. But Mandarin's tech guys beat him.Stark returns to base to build a new better Iron Man armour.Meanwhile a heavily-bandaged Temugin has been taken home to face Mandarin in disgrace. He deliberately provokes his father, and Mandarin wipes out his memory of this adventure. Temugin consoles himself that he is losing the knowledge that Tony Stark is Iron Man - knowledge that his father would love to know. Mandarin sends him back to the Tibetan monastery.


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Iron Man heads to China strapped to a missile, as Mandarin deploys his stolen Western (ie American) technology. But it is Tony Stark who appears at Mandarin's gate, to be thrown in a dungeon. He is relieved of the briefcase he clutches, but Mandarin's people can't get it open, nor scan what's inside it.Mandarin goes to talk with Stark. He can't understand why Stark has walked unarmed into the lion's den. They exchange philosophies. Stark says that stealing weapons, including hijacking the orbital platform last issue, shows Mandarin doesn't respect international law. Mandarin repostes that the weapons he took were from the CIA arming Asian rebels, suggesting that America is cavalier in that respect also. Stark accuses Mandarin of being a despot. Mandarin replies that so-called democracy just leads to rule by other kinds of power.Mandarin sees that Stark is stuck in his beliefs. So he orders his execution, and leaves to supervise deployment of the orbital station. But as the executioner brings his axe down on Stark's head, Tony kicks him where it hurts. And the misaimed blade severs his chains. After dealing with the executioner, Tony sneaks through the castle towards where he presumably can detect his briefcase. A burst from his chest-beam takes care of the guards, and Stark opens the case to retrieve the rest of his armour.Mandarin expects Iron Man to come to rescue his boss, so he dons his battle armour just before Shellhead does indeed burst into his throne room. The stage is set for a rematch from #1-2 (and Tales of Suspense #50). But now Iron Man has the new armour he built last issue (and in between ToS#53 and #54).Despite getting some licks in, Iron Man loses the initial rounds, including the use of some of Mandarin's ring effects like impact, fire, ice and darkness. There are also weapons built into the surroundings, and the Golden Avenger is eventually bound in metal tape.


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Injured Tony Stark in the still-damaged Iron Man armour (from fighting Mandarin in #1-2) battles Scarecrow and his crows with help from Happy Hogan. Scarecrow escapes with the data he stole from the Stark Industries database.Scarecrow is working for Mandarin, through an intermediary Mr Miyagi. Meanwhile Mandarin also has lots of other minions at work across the globe, like hijacking a CIA weapon convoy in Sin-Cong. Scarecrow takes the stolen data to Miyagi on a ship. But when they try to read the data, it triggers a homing signal.While waiting for the signal, Stark discusses with Anton Vanko the idea of Vanko using his Crimson Dynamo armour to test his new laser weapon against. But they detect the signal, and Iron Man follows it to the ship. He throws Scarecrow overboard, and tries to get Miyagi to say who he's working for. But Miyagi commits suicide.Mandarin goes to a Himalayan monastery where his son Temugin is living as a monk. He uses a ring to bring Temugin under his control. Temugin goes to America and joins SI as a gardener, awaiting his moment.He thinks his time has come when there is an explosion. Temugin follows Iron Man and finds him fighting someone in the Crimson Dynamo suit. It's not Anton Vanko because Vanko is using his laser array against the villain. Dynamo is defeated, but Vanko is caught in the blast and dies. Temugin sees a woman in black through the smoke.Later Temugin is trying to sleep as he recovers from minor injuries. He never saw Stark during the battle, so he had no chance to carry out his orders and kill him.Later still, after Vanko's funeral, Temugin (somehow) makes his way to Stark's private office where Tony is recharging his chestplate. And he shoots a gun at him.


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The battle between Iron Man and Mandarin commences in earnest. The Golden Avenger doesn't go down as easily as he did in their initial meeting last issue. But he is still outclassed by the power of his foe's rings.Tony Stark was sent by SHIELD to find out how dangerous Mandarin is. Now he knows. Battered and almost out of power, Iron Man just manages to escape and fly home. Mandarin decides that IM isn't the real foe. In the West it is money that is power, so it is Shellhead's employer Stark who must be the real target.Next day Tony and his armour are treated by an automatic repair system he has installed in a private building at Stark Industries HQ. When he resurfaces, his secretary Pepper Potts finds Tony covered in sticking plasters. He blames it on an accident during an experiment.Mandarin's agent Mr Miyagi approaches Ebenezer Laughton in a Greenwich Village theatre. Laughton was a small-time crook, and is now making his money as a contortionist. Miyagi gives him a costume and invites him to try industrial espionage as the Scarecrow.In his office Stark is trying to work, but he's still weak from his injuries. When Veronica Vogue from last issue wants to see him, he tells Pepper to fob her off. Which Pepper is only too happy to do.Chauffeur and right-hand man Happy Hogan tries to get Tony to see a doctor. But Stark notices that someone has broken into his database. They find Scarecrow, and he and his flock of crows attack Happy, as Tony staggers to where he keeps the Iron Man armour. With the armour still mostly non-functional, Shellhead confronts Scarecrow.


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Employee of the Month
Pepper Potts is named Stark Employee of the Month yet again but when she heads to her car she is drugged and wakes up in a girlish bedroom handcuffed to a brass bed and subdued by a giant stuffed rabbit. Her captor is her jealous assistant Callee who has a scheme to gain a promotion and power….The next day, Tony Stark wonders where Pepper is though her assistant Callee admirably takes up the slack while badmouthing Pepper. Tony is ushered into a meeting, only to find Spymaster waiting for him, wanting to know about Stark’s new weapons tech. The baddie is then joined by Blacklash, Jolt, and Plantman. From the baddies’ talk, Tony learns that their boss is a Stark employee who was able to get the security team out of the way. So Tony has a remote controlled armor burst through the wall and scare the villains off. Tony takes the opportunity to don the armor as Iron Man….At home, Callee explains her plan to Pepper: having given everyone the afternoon off and hired the bad guys to capture Tony Stark, she plans to walk in and save the day, becoming Employee of the Month. After Callee is gone, her mom bursts into her room to vacuum and discovers Pepper….Callee arrives at the company to find the villains have armed themselves with various Stark weapons found in the lab and assume (correctly) she deliberately set them up so they have destroyed the communications devices she gave them which were secretly Tasers. Iron Man arrives and the baddies use the weapons on him, causing an armor breach. Pepper arrives and with some guidance from the hero manages to initiate self-repair mode. Pepper then hustles Callee out of the room while Iron Man mops them all up….The police take away the bad guys, including Callee, and Pepper tells her that her mother is mad at her. And thirty days later…Iron Man is named Employee of the Month….“Mini Marvels”Writer: Chris Giarrusso. Art: Chris Giarrusso.Synopsis: The invading Skrulls decide to impersonate the Fantastic Four but all four Skrulls want to be Thing.


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Hong Kong Heroes
In a fold in the dimensions, Doctor Strange has hidden the most dangerous bits of magic devices like the Portal Nexus. This sanctum is invaded by Baron Mordo and Arnim Zola, aided by Zola’s robots imbued with Mordo’s dark magic. They want the Portal Nexus so Strange, knowing he will need the aid of Tony Stark against technology, teleports the Portal to Hong Kong. SHIELD detects their appearance and contacts Tony Stark……who is kicking off Stark Expo Hong Kong with a dramatic appearance as Iron Man. He introduces his guests, King T’Challa and Dr. Bruce Banner then turns the program over to local Stark Vice President Wendy Wong who unveils the company’s newest creation: the Stark Emergency Response Exosuit a/k/a SERE-X….Mordo and Zola arrive in Hong Kong, their ship cloaked by Mordo’s magic. The Portal falls at Iron Man’s feet, quickly followed by an invasion of Hydra robots. T’Challa dons his Black Panther outfit to evacuate the venue while Bruce transforms into the Hulk to smash the robots. Wendy’s sister Arwyn reveals herself to be a SHIELD Agent and quickly puts on the SERE-X to join the fight while Wendy makes nonstop adjustments to the suit via laptop. Iron Man shoots down the transport ships that brought the robots and learns their orders are coming from close by. Shellhead gives Arwyn some quick pointers on using the exo-suit. Then the sky opens and Dr. Strange arrives with the Avengers: Captain America, Black Widow, War Machine, and Hawkeye. It is discovered that SERE-X can draw off the magic abilities of the robots so Zola sends more robots around the Hong Kong area; Strange teleports the Avengers to meet them in battle. Mordo and Zola turn their main ship into a giant robot; Tony has Arwen call “Avengers Assemble” and the heroes link up to face the villains. Iron Man employs his new repulsor cannon and it destroys the ship. Strange ties up Zola and Mordo in magic bonds and takes the Portal Nexus with him. Tony Stark invites everyone to dinner where he praises Wendy and Arwen’s working together as the real heroes and suggests they continue….


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Hypervelocity Part 5 of 6
Inside the armor, Tony Stark 2.0 is a teenager recovering from a motorcycle crash and Absynthe, the avatar of the viral hackware, is about to beat him with a club….Outside the armor, aboard the SHIELD Assault Carrier Samuel Sawyer, Major Tom Aramaki of the SHIELD Special Response Team Alpha, informally known as the Capekillers, and his team see the Iron Man armor opened up and flipping around in the air above the sea. They open fire, cutting up the armor, which fights back effectively. Inside, Absynthe takes control of Tony 2.0 and, recreates herself as an Avengers team, holding him down while “Thor” beats him with the hammer. As “herself,” Absynthe continues to beat up the “armor” while mocking Tony’s obsessions and flaws, including his alcoholism and his womanizing ways. The real armor dodges the SHIELD missiles and survives the explosive fireballs as the villainous avatar kicks and stomps Tony 2.0 until he finally appears at a bar and she feeds him absinth, her namesake liquor, and Tony passes out and dies—and then she realizes that while she has been deleting Tony Stark from his memory space, he has been overwriting hers and now he is in control of Absynthe and they are locked together; if the armor is destroyed they are both dead. The armor, earlier set on course by the villainess, boards the SHIELD carrier and Absynthe has the enemy mecha called Beautiful Garbage (seen in issue #2) invade the ship as well….


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Hypervelocity Part 6 of 6
The empty Iron Man armor occupied by Tony Stark 2.0 is aboard the SHIELD Assault Carrier Samuel Sawyer as the mecha of the tribe called Beautiful Garbage invade, hacking into the ship’s systems in order to absorb SHIELD high tech. Major Tom Aramaki watches as the ship’s array of built-in defenses (proposed by Tony Stark) fight back to repel the invaders. Tony 2.0 searches Absynthe’s memory for anything he can use against the mecha; this is done under the symbol of a kiss. The armor then faces the Beautiful Garbage while a splinter personality goes to work creating some accelerationware. The mecha fire their railgun through the ship, seriously injuring Aramaki but he doesn’t feel it because of the cocktail of drugs he is on. Tony 2.0 has learned that his enemies are the waste products of various black-program attempts to upload human consciousness into digitized form. Iron Man detonates explosives which he can withstand but his foes cannot. Aramaki orders the ship to detonate its nuclear warhead in sixty seconds. Tony installs the accelerationware and acquires the speed to overcome the mecha which works but only for a short time as Absynthe points out that the mecha have also downloaded his accessionware and it works much better on their processors, giving them the new advantage. The two surviving mechas aim the rail gun at the damaged armor but Tony springs his surprise: when the mecha downloaded his program it included software that turned the mecha into Tony’s puppets so he has them destroy each other. There are only 7 seconds until detonation so Iron Man really races the clock searching for a way to stop it happening. He goes over a multitude of options as he speeds toward his target and reaches it with 0.009 seconds…and there the story ends.


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Hypervelocity Part 4 of 6
Infiltrating the underwater party of the mecha underground, the Iron Man armor inhabited by Tony Stark 2.0 creates a splinter personality to examine and fix any flaws within its software. The disguised Iron Man notes that many of the mecha are taking drug analogues such as Mekstacy 4.1. He identifies the robot that created the rail gun he was shot with in issue #2 and tries to engage him but by now Absynthe, the sentient hackware, has taken over the armor’s chameleonware and has it transmit a message in fifty languages that the disguised robot is Iron Man. And Absynthe also demonstrates that Mekstacy allows her to turn the addicts into her puppets, ordered to attack Iron Man. Shellhead 2.0 fights back, first by a “deafening” blast of gamesta rap and then by a complex series of maneuvers that push him to the surface of the ocean but he has also picked up some of SHIELD’s Loudmouth Drones which inform Major Aramaki where he is. And then Absynthe enters the armor’s operating system and opens it up wide and causing him to spin out of control, seen in Tony 2.0’s mind as him as a teenager with Absynthe riding behind him, causing him to crash and telling him she has also cracked his personality construct….


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Hypervelocity Part 2 of
Major Tom Aramaki  of the SHIELD Special Response Team Alpha, informally known as the Capekillers, reports to Nick Fury that they have received a warning message from Tony Stark that his latest armor has gone rogue. The message included a lot of detail on the new armor’s capabilities, including “combat autopilot,” enabling it to mimic Stark’s fighting skills and reactions at an inhuman speed if needed. A seriously injured Stark was found near his lab and rushed to the surgical theater. Aramaki reports that they have so far used only conventional weapons against the rogue armor but now they are unleashing the Stark-designed Gungnir missiles….And then we learn what really happened: Tony’s actual warning message was that in an emergency the new armor is programmed to attempt an upload of Tony’s consciousness. And then the lights went out, Tony was attacked while wearing the armor by enemy mecha, which told SHIELD that the armor had gone rogue. And then he was shot by a rail gun that pierced the armor and wounded Tony. The armor fought off its foes and deposited Tony on the ground near the lab and proceeded to upload Tony’s mind to create Tony Stark 2.0 who we’ve been following since issue #1. The Gungnir missile arrives so the armor grabs hold of it and rides it toward the ocean. The green goth girl (Absynthe) reappears and, since they are moving beyond the speed of sound, cuts into her flesh with a X-Acto knife, “We need to talk. I’m going to delete you from this armor, TonyGhost” and then vanishes. As the missile crashes into the sea, Tony 2.0 sizes up the various threats from SHIELD and hackers and notes that Tony’s cognitive integrity is running at only 79%....


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Hypervelocity Part 3 of 6
As Tony Stark lies wounded in a SHIELD surgical theater, the armor piloted by Tony Stark 2.0 drives a “borrowed” Honda on his mission; having recognized the rail gun that wounded him, Tony 2.0 also knows the weapon maker who supplied it to the mysterious bad guys. He knows the maker will be at a mecha party tonight and intends to meet him there. As he drives, various issues pass through Tony 2.0’s mind, mostly about shortcomings in his design and programming….Aboard the SHIELD Assault Carrier Samuel Sawyer, Major Tom Aramaki of the SHIELD Special Response Team Alpha, informally known as the Capekillers, reviews the resources they have at hand for hunting down the supposedly rogue Iron Man armor, while trying to explain it to a US Senator….In motion, Iron Man’s right repulsor suddenly discharges, wrecking the car which careens off the road and into the sea. The latex-clad goth chick appears, introducing herself as Absynthe, virtual avatar of the sentient intrusionware which has invaded his systems. She was deposited in the armor via the railgun attack and is now writing herself over the armor’s operating code, intending to delete him totally from the processors; visually this resembles her biting and chewing up an Iron Man doll. At the ocean’s bottom, Tony 2.0 and the armor swim away and head toward the mecha party being held aboard a sunken ship. Wearing a disguise made from Honda parts and other stuff, Iron Man infiltrates the party. Meanwhile, Absynthe laughs about the trap he has just walked into….


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Iron Man in a new armor flies through the air pursued by jets firing missiles at him and he dodges easily. He is being monitored by SHIELD Special Response Team Alpha, informally known as the Capekillers, led by Major Tom Aramaki who orders a launch of a Godhammer ballistic missile, telling his pilots to contain Iron Man within the range of its blast. Tony’s mind goes back to his teen years, riding a superfast motorcycle with his hot girlfriend Naomi Clarke, drunk on wine coolers. Suddenly Naomi’s image is replaced by that of a green-tinted goth girl who is speaking Chinese for a second, confusing Tony who has never seen that woman before. SHIELD jets try to contain him but he breaks into a cockpit to find the pilot is an LMD controlled from the ground by virtual reality. The LMD pilot detonates….Tony’s mind goes to a late night at his office when he discovers one of the armors is missing. It snakes up behind him and draws him inside to find the interior lined with razor blades, slicing him up as the goth girl reappears, speaking French this time. He wakes up: it was a dream. The Godhammer payload detonates, tearing Iron Man’s head off.  Aramaki rejoices though he knows the suit is empty. And the person in the suit reveals he is not really Tony Stark….


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I am Iron Man [Part Two]
Tony Stark shows up at the big fancy party where he flirts with Pepper Potts. Reporter Christine Everhart corners him and asks about the terrorist attack on Gulmira using Stark weapons. Tony confronts Obadiah Stane, who explains he did it to save the company and is locking Tony out. Tony dons the Iron Man armor and flies to Gulmira and defeats the terrorists with an impressive array of munitions. On his way out, Tony has a mid-air duel with two US Air Force jets while in contact with James Rhodes. Back at the lab, Pepper catches him in the armor….In Golmira, Obadiah Stane is working with Raza, confiscating the wreckage of Tony’s original armor as his henchmen kill all witnesses….At the company, Tony has Pepper search Stane’s laptop for incriminating evidence and she finds it—but Stane knows she has it. Pepper gives the info to Phil Coulson of SHIELD. Stane overpowers Tony and steals the arc reactor keeping him alive. But Pepper had kept the original and Tony uses that to suit up as Iron Man and go to Pepper’s rescue. Stane, wearing a larger more powerful armor, battles Tony who can outmaneuver him and lure him into space where icing brings him down. Tony has Pepper activate the giant reactor and Stane is killed….At the press conference, Tony is handed a prepared speech to make, offering the official account of the incident. Instead, Tony tosses the cards aside and announces, “I am Iron Man….”Later, Nick Fury appears at Tony’s home, telling him of the Avengers Initiative; Tony declines the offer. On his way home, Fury calls to tell Natasha her services will be needed….


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I am Iron Man [Part One]
On a trip to Afghanistan, millionaire inventor/playboy Tony Stark is seriously injured by one of his own rockets in enemy hands. He awakens in a cave, prisoner of Raza and his terrorist organization, demanding that the dying Stark build him a weapon. With the aid of fellow captive Professor Yinsen, Tony creates a miniature arc reactor to keep him alive while he builds a high tech suit of armor. Yinsen sacrifices his life to give Tony the time to charge the suit. Tony then walks out, fighting Raza and his men, and leaping into the desert where the armor falls apart and he is rescued by his pal James Rhodes and US Air Force….Back in the USA, Tony has Pepper Potts call a press conference. There he stuns the world by announcing Stark will no longer build weapons, a decision that does not sit well with his partner Obadiah Stane. Later, Tony is forced to show the arc reactor to Stane but he will not reveal how it works. Tony spends his time upgrading the armor with flight capabilities, soon flying into space, icing up, and returning rather uncomfortably. Completing the Iron Man armor with a red and yellow paint job, he heads off to a party to reveal he is all well after all….


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Story 1: The arkA couple of SHIELD Agents land at a secret base in Antarctica to deliver some DNA samples of endangered species to a waiting scientist. As he checks them an alarm goes off and the base seals itself and cuts off outside communication. Guns in the walls shoot the Agents.In the SHIELD helicarrier Maria Hill informs Director Tony Stark that something has gone wrong with Project Ararat. This is a project he's apparently unaware of, so he pulls up the info from the database. The Antarctic site contains an interstellar spaceship which will function as an Ark to preserve Terran life in a worst-case scenario, and reseed it on another planet. Its AI is programmed to recognise such a scenario and take off without human command.The base has just gone into lockdown and responds to all hails with the reply that it has confirmed a threat. SHIELD needs to rescue the trapped scientists, and Iron Man can get there faster than anyone else.As he approaches Stark discovers that the base's defensive weaponry is of his own design, which should give him an edge. He takes control of missiles fired at him and redirects them to destroy their own launch sites. He gets the AI to talk to him but it won't acknowledge his authority. So he directs some more missiles to blow open the sealed entrance.Once inside the AI tells him that it has decided that mankind itself is the greatest threat to Earth and its preserved specimens. So it's going to leave (taking the necessary scientists with it).The Golden Avenger is attacked by robot drones. 1st they bury him in molten ceiling, but he breaks free. Direct flame-thrower attack doesn't faze him either, or other robot attachments. But these were only delaying tactics as the AI prepared to launch the space rocket.Iron Man endures the exhaust blast, and then jets up to overtake the giant rocket. Stark attempts to stop the flight by draining the rocket's nuclear power source, while the AI assures him his actions are futile because the power overload will destroy him 1st. Tony points out that his exploding armour would destroy the Ark and its precious cargo, but the AI doesn't believe he would risk the lives of the scientists. However it can't afford to call his bluff so it powers down. Shellhead manages to slow the rocket's descent enough to get it to the ground almost intact.Absorbing so much power into his Extremis armour which is intimately linked to his nervous system means Tony has to spend some recovery time in hospital. Maria thanks him for not getting killed, as she wouldn't want his job again. She assures him their aren't any more major crises that need his attention. Or at least she won't tell him about them until he's better.Story 2: His Girl FridayPepper Potts comes looking for her boss Tony Stark because they'll be late for the unveiling of the Stark Ampere, his company's new electric sports car. But she finds someone else sitting in his chair, and is grabbed by an Iron Man armour.But in fact Tony has got there early and as a planned publicity stunt has 'stolen' the car, which he's now driving at speed accompanied by 3 young models. But when they reach his home he discovers his office trashed and Pepper missing. Changing to Iron Man he tracks her phone to his Coney Island factory where he's confronted by 3 remote-controlled old armours.He jams their control signal, but then has to deal with a hologram of Fin Fang Foom. And within it is Pepper. Tony frees her and she kisses him, but he discovers a control/feedback patch on her neck (based on the SKIN tech he used a while ago).When he removes it the 'mastermind' reveals herself as his old holographic PA Friday. She was written as a young child when he used her, but now she's 'grown up' into a rebellious teenager. She's angry about being left on the shelf for so long. But she protests a denial about having a crush on Tony when Pepper says that the AI initiated the kiss to find out what it was like.Tony prepares to shut Friday down, but Pepper persuades him to try to raise her like a gifted child instead. After getting advice from Reed Richards about his own genius kid Valeria he puts her in the care of the Avengers' butler Jarvis, but spends a lot of time with her himself. And eventually he lets her take control of an Ampere (hoping to use her as the basis for an onboard AI for the next model).


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Iron Widow
Story starts with an action scene: Iron Man shooting through the sky at a dangerous height and Black Widow clinging to him and trying to kiss him….Story proper begins five weeks earlier when Tony Stark calls in Black Widow to help him recover a top secret Cold War armor that has been stolen and is now in a lab in Georgia (the former Soviet Republic, not the American state). As only Tony can access the armor and fly it out before the enemy cracks the encryption, Natasha has Tony made over to pass for a Russian scientist (with some snide input from Pepper Potts). He goes to the Georgian illegal arms factory and meets Dr Tessa Nubin and romances her to gain access to the stolen armor. But Nubin reveals herself to be Sunset Bain and Tony is captured, which was her plan all along. Using a disc stolen from the Controller, Bain immobilizes Tony and places him in the armor, making him into a guided missile. Black Widow invades the facility to save him and ends up battling Sunset Bain wearing a Crimson Dynamo armor. Iron Man is launched and Natasha gets herself on board, clinging to the armor and pressing her mouth against the helmet’s mouth so she can breathe in the rarified atmosphere. Tony recognizes the target as Avengers Mansion—in the past. The armor is a temporal one, idea stolen from Doctor Doom and he is going to destroy the Avengers at their beginning. Nat forces a pill into Tony’s mouth with hers, triggering a heart attack that cancels the neural connection and forces the armor to reboot with Tony back in charge. They swoop through the mansion, surprising Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, Wasp…and the original Iron Man. The armor is then sent back into the future to land outside the ruins of the present mansion; Nat performs CPR to revive Tony and all is well….2nd story:- Glitch!Writer: Karl Kesel. Art: Eric Nguyen. Colors: Andy Troy.An intruder breaks into Stark Industries and escapes security only to run into Iron Man himself. She is a teen girl calling herself Glitch—and she shorts out Shellhead’s armor with a touch and gets away with an important prototype….Wolverine comes to visit Tony Stark as he has crossed paths with Glitch, a mutant with no knowledge of her life before a year ago and curious about her parentage. Logan has traced her to the Hellfire Club and she is likely working for Sebastian Shaw. Tony agrees to team up and he suggests going through the front door, as he is member of the Club……and so they are welcomed by Shaw, including Logan in an expensive suit. Tony brings up the matter of the stolen solar generator and Shaw admits that his company is also developing one. They are being watched by Club security and Glitch. Tony leaves Shaw with a warning to return the prototype or else. Then it all turns to chaos as Glitch, working with Logan who was to distract Shaw with Tony Stark, while she tried to steal what Shaw had promised her but had tried to withhold: information about her family. As Wolverine battles the guards, Tony find he cannot summon his Iron Man armor because of a frequency scrambler installed in the Club. So he socks Shaw which is a mistake because of his mutant ability to grow stronger from any force used against him. Tony is captured and Logan held at bay as Glitch is brought in by the guards. Then Logan gives the girl the opportunity to short out the scrambler, Tony’s armor comes to him and he beats up Shaw and the guards. Shaw sets the self-destruct timer and the heroes escape just in time. Glitch reveals that she also stole Shaw’s prototype but Iron Man destroys it without looking at it. Glitch goes off in search of her family, using the records filched from the Club genealogy files. Iron Man and Wolverine fight over Logan’s playing of Tony and issues of trust are aired and they part on uneasy terms….


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War of the Iron Men Part 5
Doctor Doom appears before the United Nations General Assembly via sonogram to announce that for humanitarian reasons, Latveria is invading Transia and annexing a portion of that nation….In Transia, Iron Man teams up with Radioactive Man, Titanium Man, and Crimson Dynamo to fight back the invading forces of Doombots, upgraded with technology stolen from Stark. The two rookie Russian heroes, both new to their armored identities, fall easily before the onslaught; Iron Man has Chen Lu hold off the Doombots while he takes the two Russians to safety. R-Man triggers a massive EMP but it does not affect the enemies; Iron Man recognizes Stark tech at work. Doom himself enters the battlefield in a huge base on massive spider legs. Shellhead confronts him, questioning why Doom is engineering a land grab—it’s because Mount Wundagore is located in Transia and Doom wants to get his hands on the High Evolutionary’s abandoned technology. Tony accuses Doom of stealing Stark tech; Doom says he merely funded the Zmaj and their Iron Men are of their own making. As Iron Man is overwhelmed by Doombots, the Slavic Smith God Svarog, with fiery golden armor and a flaming battle axe, arrives on the scene to join the battle. It is Dragana, who assembled the robotic suit as a figure that would draw the Slavs and Romani together in a fight for freedom. Tony tells her that he knew that his mobile lab would be stolen and he hid a kill switch inside, knowing it would be incorporated into the Doombots; at his signal the Doombots go offline, making it appear that Svarog destroyed them single-handedly. Iron Man volunteers to distract Doctor Doom (actually a robot double) so Svarog can defeat “him” too; during the operation, Tony calls Dragana his legacy. Back at his palace, Doom moves on to his next plot, involving Venom symbiote satellites….Back in the USA, Iron Man leads SHIELD agents to arrest janitor Michael Flannery, who used the DNA from Tony Stark’s hair swept up to enter his private lab and steal Stark tech. Flannery’s wife is Transian, her family of Slavs were all killed by the Muslim Romani. Flannery denounces Stark for having given up creating weapons, allowing the world to fall into chaos….Tony has Pepper Potts and his other employees released from prison. When the TV footage of him battling the two Russian heroes was seen, Iron Man became too much of a hero to prosecute….Tony ponders his creation of Iron Man as an ideal and when Tony is gone and the threats become greater, the Iron Legion will be ready….


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War of the Iron Men Part 3
In the wake of the deaths of his parents, Tony locks himself away in his lab, creating himself out of his grief while Jarvis speaks to the press. Tony makes a robot dog….Dreadknight arrives in Transia to see Nina, the Romani woman who was aiding Iron Man’s mission against the Zmaj until she learned that Shellhead was only interested in absolving his employer of any blame. Dreadknight was dispatched by Doctor Doom, claiming to be the friend of the Romani; now Dreadknight breaks into Tony’s mobile lab and sends a description of its contents back to Doom who sends drones to collect the material. And then Doom is informed that the Iron Man captured was Tony Stark in person….At the Zmaj camp, Tony is put in with their sole remaining Romani scientist Dragana who reveals that she was Svarog, using an image inducer. He discovers that she is building the Iron Men tech for them using Stark’s own plans, implying the presence of a spy in Stark’s company. He asks her why she hasn’t used her ingenuity to run away; she reveals that she lost her legs to a landmine long ago. Darko and another soldier enter to force Tony to make a video asking for ransom; instead he beats them up and promises to come back for Dragana after he has destroyed the transmitter controlling the Iron Men. He jury-rigs a jet harness and takes off into the sky, encountering Dreadknight on his winged black horse. The villain shoots him down; telling him that Doom wants him alive, Dreadknight intends to kill him to spite Doom and claim that Tony killed himself. The baddie has Tony at his mercy, until Tony points out that Dreadknight is standing on a landmine which explodes, knocking him out. Tony takes the villain’s lance and winged horse and takes off, deciding to escalate the war by blowing up a Chinese oil pipeline….Back in the States, Henry Peter Gyrich bursts into Tony Stark's office to find Stark (actually an LMD) wearing a maid’s uniform and massaging Pepper Potts’ feet….In China, Chen Lu, the Radioactive Man, is assigned to take revenge for the destruction of the pipeline….


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Man on the street
Dr Strange arrives home in his Sanctum Sanctorum via a mystic portal having just prevented Tiboro using the Screaming Idol from gaining access to this dimension. He brushes off the attentions of his manservant Wong and says he wants to be alone and undisturbed. He enters an inner room and we find out why - it's a meeting of the Illuminati.The group keep their existence secret from even their closest family and associates. DrS's spell transported them directly to this chamber masked by the Ward of Zhered-Na. He brought Black Bolt from Attilan on the Moon, and Sub-Mariner from Atlantis beneath the ocean. And Prof X from the flagship of his lover the Shi'Ar Empress Lilandra. (They congratulate him on being able to walk.)Mr Fantastic called this meeting to discuss the missing member Iron Man. Tony Stark has lost his company to Obadiah Stane and is now broke. He's a drunk living on the street in Los Angeles. Charles Xavier thinks telepathic probing might help him uncover the root of his problem and overcome it. Stephen Strange could use spells to uncover any illegality in Stane's takeover. Reed Richards could hire Tony to look after his patents. But Blackagar Boltagon silently objects. And Namor, as a fellow ruler, thinks he understands and agrees.He believes Stark wouldn't want help. If he can't beat this himself then he would be no use against the threats that this team was created to face.We turn to homeless Tony Stark on a bench in LA with only a golf bag and clubs to keep him company. There's no other pedestrian on the street except a fellow bum who rants about supervillains(?) from the future who are meddling with his mind to stop him inventing things to defeat them. He sees Tony as a fellow intelligent designer.Stark remembers a final meeting with Stane where he was thrown out of his own office. Obadiah 'graciously' allowed Tony to take the golf set that he said belonged to his father.Now we see him look in a liquor store window. But pass on.Then he sees the bum down a side alley being hung from a fire escape by a costumed guy with a scythe. He decides to intervene and pushes a button on the 'golf bag'. Which opens up to reveal the components of a really old suit of Iron Man armour.A quick repulsor blast severs the rope that is hanging his 'friend'. Then Iron Man confronts the villain, who calls himself The Hangman and says it's his holy mission to clean up the city. An electromagnet disarms the foe of his scythe. But then Tony's jet boots run out of fuel and he lands in a dumpster. Hangman moves in for the kill, but an iron fist knocks him out.Shellhead offers to take the victim to hospital but he doesn't want that. He just asks for someone name Tamara. Stark checks his pockets and finds a wallet with a driver license in the name Tyree Robinson, and a home address in the Imperio suburb. With no working boot jets he resorts to his built-in roller skates to take them there. And surveillance cameras clock his movements.Tamara is home, and she turns out to be Tyree's sister. Tony (without the armour) explains what happened, and Tyree heads for his room. Tamara explains that he was doing excellently in a college course in Engineering, but then he was diagnosed with an (unspecified) mental illness. He keeps going off his meds. Tamara is worn down.Tony leaves, and Tamara warns him that Imperio isn't a good place to be at night. He finds 2 guys examining the golf bag where he stashed it. They refuse to give it to him because they don't believe it's his. They also don't believe it when he fights back - doesn't he know who they work for? And a futuristic gun is a convincer when it zaps him in the chest.They run off but leave the bag, not realising that they've stopped Stark's artificial heart. He gets the chestplate out of the golf bag and puts it on. But he needs a power source. He inches towards some wires hanging free from the base of a streetlight. But collapses before he can make it.The 2 crooks report to their boss. They say they tracked Iron Man to Imperio, which is part of the boss's turf. But all they found was Tony Stark's golf bag. And a wino who they killed with the 'kinetic drainer' that The Travellers gave them. The boss confirms that they've told no-one else that Stark and Iron Man are in Los Angeles. And then he burns them up with a blast from his palm.The boss takes the surveillance evidence to a costumed group he belongs to that he calls The Pride. He figures Stark is trying to infiltrate their city without them noticing. But now that they have noticed they'll have to slap him down.


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Mother necessity
Tony Stark tangled with Hangman last issue and now the villain's in jail. Now he's visited by 3 of the Pride women who want to know all about his encounter. The telepathic mutant Alice Hayes extracts the info from his brain - that he fought Iron Man and heard him take Tyree Robinson home to Imperio (which is where the Pride's henchmen found Stark's golf clubs). This increases the Pride's conviction that Stark and Shellhead are after them. Catherine Wilder is incensed that Hangman tried to hang a black man (Tyree) and gets Hayes to make the perp hang himself. Janet Stein doesn't contribute much to the proceedings.Last issue we left Tony Stark dying because his artificial heart had been zapped. Now he wakes up alive in the home of siblings Tamara and Tyree Robinson. He's still got his old Iron Man chestplate on and Tamara has figured out who he is. She says she immediately regretted turning him out on the street last night and went to look for him. She dragged him home and engineering whizz (when he's sane) Tyree figured out to plug the chestplate into a power socket - which saved Tony's life.Tony notices an abandoned factory nearby and Tamara says that's where her dad used to work. It made tanks during WWII and other metal objects later. But it's been closed down for years.But now she's got to go to work as a teacher. She leaves him to make sure Tyree takes his medication. It turns out Tyree needs a whole pharmacy of different meds, all on different schedules. And the patient doesn't know where he's up to. This gives Stark an idea.In the Wilder's house Pride organiser Geoffrey is on a video call when he's interrupted by his teen son Alex. He brushes the boy off and returns to talking to Sidewinder, hiring his new team the Serpent Society to kill Tony Stark. The current members are Anaconda, Cobra, Diamondback, Puff Adder and Rattler.When Tamara gets home Tony tells her he's got to rush out to buy a load of scrap parts with the $100 he's 'borrowed' from her petty cash stash. She finds Tyree doing technical drawings at a rate he hasn't achieved since his interrupted college Engineering degree. He says the pair will make loads of money from the company Stark is going to set up.Sidewinder spots Stark leaving the house and follows using his teleportation ability. Tony goes to a scrap yard and asks for various bits. The owner says this isn't a shop, but for the $100 he can take away whatever he can carry. Stark starts to scavenge.But he's interrupted by Anaconda, Diamondback and Rattler. DB's throwing diamonds bounce off the chestplate he's still wearing under his clothes, and 1 temporarily blinds Rattler. The chest unibeam knocks the women flat and Tony hides in a pipe. But Cobra follows him and pushes him out. Stark retaliates by shocking the villain with his power lead.Tony still thinks everything that's happening to him is due to Obadiah Stane who stole his company and fortune. This makes him even more determined to succeed again from scratch. He finds the parts he needs in a pile of electronic stuff.Sidewinder rallies his troops and Puff Adder finds their prey. But Stark has jury-rigged some offensive weaponry.


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War of the Iron Men Part 4
In New York, Pepper Potts calls and leaves a message for Tony Stark that she and other Stark employees have been arrested by Henry Peter Gyrich and begs him to return home….In Latveria, Doctor Doom oversees the operation incorporating stolen Stark tech into his Doombots, then heads to the border to welcome the Transian Romani refugees, assuring them that he hears their pleas for him to annex the Romani sections of Transia to Latveria….Tony Stark returns to Nina’s barn to discover his mobile lab is gone, taken by Doom. He is surrounded by the Romani militia so he contacts J.A.R.V.I.S. to send him armor from his space station. Nina still demands he pick a side in the conflict and he remains committed to his own side, defending his legacy….American mercenaries from Eaglestar are in a camp, controlling the Iron Men drones like they are playing a genocidal video game when Chen Lu, the Radioactive Man, arrives, spy satellites having reported that Iron Man is there. He kills several of the soldiers outright, leaving one alive for interrogation. Then Shellhead arrives, having tracked the transmitter controlling the Iron Men. R-Man tries to kill Iron Man but destroys the transmitter instead, which leads to the Iron Men collapsing into heaps on their murderous mission. Iron Man grabs the lone mercenary (Keith) and flies into the air to find out who had hired Eaglestar since the Zmaj couldn’t afford them. As Keith is about to tell all, Chen Lu knocks Iron Man and Keith out of the sky with a big chunk of machinery and Keith falls to his death. Iron Man and R-Man battle while the Chinese hero preaches ideology—and then he is felled by the arrival of Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo, who claim the right as Russian heroes to defeat an enemy of the Slavic nations. As the two armored Russians take on the Chinese hero, a drone is broadcasting the melee back to Moscow and other Slavic sites. Iron Man jumps in—and then they all see….the invasion by a multitude of Doombots resembling Iron Man….


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Bunker mentality
Tony Stark and James Rhodes/Iron Man are having a chat in the home of Tamara and Tyree Robinson. Rhodey wants to know where Tony's been, and why did he disappear after telling him and Clytemnestra and Morley Erwin that he was going out to get some spare parts. Tony says he had to prove to himself that he could make it on his own.Jim is worried about him. But also about what he's stirring up in this neighbourhood. He saw the gunmen that tried to disrupt the meeting last issue. Tony can just leave when he wants, but the folks around here will have to live with the consequences.Tamara interrupts to say Tony might have to ask for help anyway. Over half the people at the meeting donated money, but they're still a long way short of enough to get Imperio Techworks up and running. And we saw last issue that no businessmen in Los Angeles will invest in Stark the bankrupt drunk. Rhodey suggests that Iron Man's boot jets give him a longer reach.Later Tony and Tamara nearly share an intimate moment but they are interrupted by the arrival of the Fantastic Four's robot HERBIE. The voice of Reed Richards tells them that Iron Man has told him what's going on. He wants to make a large investment - everybody needs help from his friends. (We see Reed surrounded by the FF, currently with She-Hulk instead of Thing.)But when Stark goes to get permission to use the nearby derelict factory he's told that there'll be a lot of hoops to go through 1st. And the guy privately admits to him that word has come from the highest levels that permission is not to be granted. This confirms the suspicions Tony had last issue that he's being deliberately obstructed. (We know it's The Pride, but Tony still thinks it's Obadiah Stane behind it.)So Stark decides on direct action and reopens the abandoned factory with a bolt cutter. Strangely it still has working electricity. And he invites all the owners/workers of the prospective co-op inside.Meanwhile Tokyo has been invaded by 2 giant monsters. 1 is Tim Boo Ba who has somehow expanded up from his microverse world. The other is the giant insect Grottu who the Japanese have unwisely released from their giant monster museum to fight him. Iron Man (Rhodey) turns up to save the day.The Imperio Techworks factory is up and running! Producing the automated pillbox Tony and Tyree invented in #7-8. The people have agreed to work a week with no pay until the overseas orders come in. (The orders Stark lied about last issue.) But cautious Tony has also laid in supplies and bedding for a siege.And he was right because the LA police surround the place in riot gear. But the arrival of TV news vans makes them hold back. Tony thinks that's a stroke of luck, but Tamara says she alerted them to the story. They finally get their kiss.Geoffrey Wilder of The Pride rages at the LA Mayor because he was supposed to shut the factory down immediately. But the Mayor reminds him of their agreement. The Pride get control of the Imperio district as long as they guarantee its votes for him. But The Pride are losing control. And no amount of votes are worth the bad press if the police violently stop a predominantly non-Caucasian group from setting up a small business in their poor neighbourhood.Tamara's brother Tyree realises he's left some of his meds at home. His madness returns and he hits Tamara before running out of the factory. Tamara follows him. But their minds are taken over by Alice Hayes of The Pride, 1 of the Outcasts couple of telepathic mutants. They are rendered unconscious and taken away by Frank Dean of the alien Colonists couple.Tamara wakes to find herself separated from her brother and in the presence of someone she doesn't know is Geoffrey Wilder. He says they're using her as bait to catch Tony Stark. And afterwards they will sacrifice her to the Gibborim as they do every year with a girl from Imperio.


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No way back
In 1 of the strands of last issue Iron Man (James Rhodes) faced giant monsters Grottu and Tim Boo Ba in Tokyo. Now he's defeated them to much applause. (Although the Japanese Self-Defence Forces spokesman says they would have handled it themselves OK - to much derogatory comment.) Rhodey uses the opportunity to do what he came for - to tout shares in Tony Stark's fledgling company Imperio Techworks.Also last issue The Pride kidnapped Tamara and Tyree Robinson as bait for Stark. Now Tina Minoru explains to Tamara who they are. The Gibborim supposedly ruled the world before the Great Flood. They will come again to cleanse the Earth of humanity and rule the world anew. They have chosen The Pride to prepare the way by sacrificing a girl to them each year until enough life force has been transferred. Tamara will soon be this year's offering.In the derelict factory Imperio Techworks is using, Tony has just realised that the Robinson siblings are missing when a hologram of Geoffrey Wilder pops up. Wilder is tired of using minions to fight Stark and wants to bring the duel to a head. But Tony still thinks Obadiah Stane is behind it all, much to Wilder's disgust. He tells Stark that he has invaded the territory of The Pride. And he must come alone to Wilder's house to save the Robinsons.Back in that house some of The Pride aren't pleased that Geoffrey has just tipped their hand when obviously Stark had no idea they existed. But Janet Stein is eager to test her tech against his. Then Tony blasts his way in with his old Iron Man armour. The Pride are confused because they know the Golden Avenger is in Japan, until Stacey Yorkes does a scan which reveals Stark inside.Dale Yorkes blows a special whistle to summon their dinosaur. There follows a colossal battle which quickly moves outside - in fact just outside the bedroom window of young Alex Wilder who is oblivious as he listens to music through earphones. But eventually Shellhead reigns supreme.Then Stacey uses a kinetic drainer pistol on him. Tony recognises the feeling as the same as in #6, and is finally convinced that The Pride is behind everything that happened to him in this story arc. But the armour means he's not as vulnerable as he was then.He continues to fight until Tina Minoru uses her staff to tangle him in a sudden growth of vines. But Stark reveals an inexplicable knowledge of them. He knows about the Gibborim. And that when they return 6 of The Pride will survive to rule the world with them, but the other 6 will perish with humanity. How will they decide which 6 is which? A mental scan by Gene Hayes reveals that Stark knows much of the contents of their sacred book.Janet and Victor Stein come forward to talk to him. Stark recognises them from a scientific conference they were all at. Janet says they're saving the world from itself (presumably from human-induced climate change, etc).Frank Dean is impatient, and wants to torture the truth out of their victim. But just then a spacecraft arrives which the alien Deans recognise as belonging to the Shi'Ar and the Illuminati leap out. Tony explains that Geoffrey Wilder swore by the Gibborim during their earlier chat. Stark contacted Dr Strange about that and Stephen filled him in. Then they called in the rest of the gang.


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[Assistant] The Illuminati are fighting The Pride. It's Dr Strange vs the Magicians. Prof X matching minds with the Outcasts, Mr Fantastic tackling the inventions of the Wise Men. Black Bolt swiftly downs time-Travellers, Dale and Stacey Yorkes, and Sub-Mariner does the same to the alien Colonists, Frank and Leslie Dean, while Tony Stark in a very old Iron Man armour subdues Catherine and Geoffrey Wilder, the leaders called the Thieves.Then the 3 unencumbered heroes try the old switcheroo. Black Bolt hits Gene Hayes which takes some pressure off Charles Xavier, enabling him to mind-blast Tina Minoru and Stephen Strange to capture her with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak. Sub-Mariner KO's Robert Minoru and Iron Man blasts Alice Hayes. Meanwhile Reed Richards has defeated Janet and Victor Stein with their own weapons.Tony goes in the Wilder house to look for his kidnapped friends, and Reed waits for the police while the rest of the team exit in the Shi'Ar craft. Young Alex Wilder is still oblivious with his earphones on as Shellhead locates Tamara and Tyree Robinson in a dungeon. They exit to find The Pride being taken away, but Geoffrey Wilder says it isn't over.Next morning they are released with all records expunged. But Wilder isn't happy with the DA, 1 of his stooges. He heads home intent on destroying Stark and the Imperio Techworks he has set up in part of the area of Los Angeles under The Pride's control. But he finds a message from Stark telling him that he is giving up his stake in the company and going back to join his friends outside the city, so The Pride need no longer fear his intrusion in their affairs. But in return The Pride must leave Imperio Techworks alone. If they don't then Stark will bring the whole superhero pack down on them.At the workers co-operative factory the investment that James Rhodes went to Japan for has come through. And orders too. The business is now on its feet. Tony tells Tamara that she is now in charge because he's leaving. He doesn't tell her about the deal with The Pride. Instead he says he's done what he set out to do, prove to himself that he doesn't need his inherited company and money to succeed. But Tamara, who thought she was building a romantic relationship with him, accuses him of abandoning her like every other man in her life.The Pride hold a meeting to decide what to do about Stark. They can't make their minds up whether to continue pursuing Stark or not, and they ask Geoffrey Wilder for a decision. He obviously hasn't told them about the deal either. But he says it's time to move on to other business.2 weeks later Iron Man (James Rhodes) comes to see Tyree Robinson who's off his meds again (so much for the automated pill dispenser he and Tony invented) and gone back to living on the street. Jim tells Tyree that Tony has registered the patent in his name, and now that Techworks is selling them he's getting a lot of money. It's in a trust controlled by his sister Tamara so he'll always have a safe home to go back to. But Tyree is happy where he is.