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The Big Race!
The Power Pack Kids (Alex/Zero-G, Julie/Lightspeed, Jack/Mass Master, Katie/Energizer) are in school helping Julie put up posters as she is running for student government. Her chief rival is Irena Crumb, daughter of the wealthy real estate mogul Arnold Crumb, who replaces Julie’s posters with ones showing her famous father endorsing her. Irena walks out of the school, only to be kidnapped by Blizzard. The Power Pack kids go to her rescue, Jack eagerly because he has a crush on Irena, Julie reluctantly because she doesn’t like Irena, and trail the villain….Meanwhile, Tony Stark is meeting with Arnold Crumb about a real estate deal when Crumb gets word that his daughter has been kidnapped. Tony promises to bring her back safely and becomes Iron Man….The kids trail Blizzard to his hideout in a warehouse near the docks. While debating strategy they discover that Blizzard has a partner, the super-fast Speed Demon. The kids attack the bad guys, Julie staying hidden because Irena would recognize her, a decision that doesn’t go well with Alex. Alex spills water on the ground; it freezes and Speed Demon slides into Blizzard knocking him flat. SD snatches up Irena and takes off. Julie, as Lightspeed, is the only one who can save her so she puts on Blizzard’s mask and pursues, catching up to the baddie and taking Irena away from him. Speed Demon pursues until he literally runs into Iron Man. Irena is returned to her father; the kids decline a reward from Crumb, but Julie asks a favor of Iron Man…. Soon, posters of Tony Stark endorsing Julie for student government appear at school….2nd story:-Mini-MarvelsWriter/Artist: Chris Giarrusso.Hawkeye wears his new armor to play high school football. Iron Man accompanies Wolverine to the Xavier house to pack up his belongings to move to Avengers Mansion; on arrival they are mistaken for Sentinels and attacked by the X-Men who destroy all of Logan’s belongings. Thor shows his new armor to Odin who mistakes it for the baggy-pants look of the youth and orders him out. Unaware, Loki goes in to show Odin his new baggy pants.


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The Torrent Without -- The Tumult Within!
This story continues from TALES OF SUSPENSE #99.

 Aboard the Maggia sub which is under attack by A.I.M., the powerless Iron Man is held fast to a magnetic lab table, unable to move as the waters rush in. In a desperate move he manages to connect his recharge cable to the short-circuiting wire from the laser overhead, restoring his power. In the gambling ship above all is chaos, as A.I.M. agents board the ship in search of the cash aboard. Big M orders Whiplash and the Maggia thugs to retaliate and the battle is on, as the undercover SHIELD Agent Jasper Sitwell searches for the imprisoned Iron Man. Below, the Armored Avenger manages to escape the lab and seal the hatches slowing the flow of water to the ship above. In a secret control room, Big M activates the Gyro-Oscillator which sends the ship tilting back and forth to upset the A.I.M. gang’s plans. The rogue scientists respond with a shock ray blast that disables the Maggia weapon. Whiplash captures Jasper Sitwell just as Iron Man arrives on the ship. He blasts the baddie with his repulsor rays but suddenly the A.I.M. Vortex-Suction Beam pulls Iron Man through the ship’s hull toward the A.I.M. vessel….

 This story continues in IRON MAN #1.


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Part 1: Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Iron Man tracks down and captures Trump the criminal magician and he is immediately surrounded by adoring fans and must make his getaway. He returns to his workshop where, as Tony Stark, he gets to work on his first big project since relocating his company to Los Angeles. He explains to his pal Jim Rhodes that he is through producing weapons no matter what the market is demanding of him….At the big unveiling, where Pepper Potts is keeping an eye on snoopy members of the media, Tony takes the stage to present his newest creation, the Peacekeeper armor, carrying no weapons. But when the curtain opens, the armor is gone. The Crimson Dynamo appears and opens fire into the hall; as Rhodey helps everyone to get to safety, Tony draws the villain away then ambushes him with a fire extinguisher. Crimson Dynamo knocks him down and blasts off through the roof. Tony and Rhodey head back to the company to find the armory has been robbed, every suit of Iron Man armor has been stolen….In Russia, the Dynamo reports back to General Rostov, the Red Barbarian, that the mission was a success, all of the armors were taken. But when he reveals that Tony Stark is still alive, Rostov personally executes the Dynamo for his failure….At the office, Tony is confronted by Congressman Wyndham over the loss of the new armor, demanding he produce the suit or refund the five billion dollars paid by the government. As they argue, Iron Man crashes into the room, knocks Wyndham down, and attacks Tony. As Pepper evacuates the building, Tony lures the enemy Iron Man away and manages to sneak up behind the invader and short out the comm system. Iron Man removes the helmet to reveal the Soviet heroine Fantasma who stuns him with a hypnotic spell then flies away. The injured Tony crawls along the floor to meet…Doctor Doom….


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Part Two: The Big Red Machine
In Russia, General Rostov, the Red Barbarian, learns that Fantasma has also failed to kill Tony Stark; Rostov starts plotting again….In his office, Tony Stark realizes that he is talking to a Doombot, a robot representative of Doctor Doom, that is there to offer assistance. Downstairs, Jim Rhodes arrives and Pepper Potts fills him in on the attack by Iron Man while Congressman Wyndham accuses Stark of treason and wants Pepper and Rhodey arrested as accomplices. Rhodey gets a call from Tony to meet him at a certain location and then Tony, wearing the Doom armor, flies out of the building and into the distance….Later, Rhodey picks up Tony in a jet borrowed from the Marines. Tony explains his plan: get close enough to each suit of armor and shut it down and he has rigged up a tracking device to find them….At Fort Knox, Ivan Krushki breaks in wearing the (semi-)original gold armor. Tony takes him on in the Doom armor and shuts him down….Under the sea, an American submarine is attacked by the Gremlin and Ursa Major (in human form) wearing the Peacekeeper armor; they rip the sub open and recover something from a locked compartment….At FBI headquarters in Washington, Congressman Wyndham demands that Stark, Potts, and Rhodes be arrested while Agent Keith Dekker, who served in the Marines with Rhodey, wants to talk to Rhodey to learn what is really going on. Then they are attacked by three more Iron Men: Darkstar in the Stealth Armor, Hammer in the War Machine suit, and Sickle in Armor Mark 2. They battle the Army and suddenly the Mark 1 golden armor arrives, with Tony Stark inside, and he battles the three interlopers. Tony tricks Hammer and Sickle into knocking each other out then he rescues Darkstar from an army shell, surprising her. His boot jets damaged, he then picks up Sickle and uses the Mark 2 jets to take off….In Russia, General Rostov is angry at his agents’ failure to kill Tony Stark but he is delighted again when Gremlin and Ursa Major deliver the mysterious object taken from the American sub, which Rostov refers to as the greatest weapon Russia ever produced….In the air, Tony tells Rhodey he let Darkstar go so he could track her back to the Russian base. Rhodey confesses that the “borrowed” plane was actually stolen, which explains why a military helicopter is firing rockets at them….


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How I Learned to Love the Bomb
General Rostov, the Red Barbarian, opens the casket recovered from the American sub and gathers his henchmen around it: Darkstar, Ursa Major, the Gremlin, and others. The casket contains the corpse of Omega Red but, feeding on the life energy of the other villains, Omega Red regains life and strength as the others pass out from their lives being leeched out. Darkstar objects to the way Rostov treats his minions but he no longer needs them now that he has Omega Red….At FBI headquarters, Agent Keith Dekker has gotten a full confession from Ivan Krushki (captured last issue) but now they have a report that their stolen aircraft has been located by an FBI copter; Director Stone orders them to hold their fire……as the copter fires on the craft carrying Tony Stark in the Iron Man Mark 2 armor and James Rhodes. Just before the missile hits, Iron Man carries Rhodey away from the doomed craft then deposits him in a tall tree because his energy level is dropping quickly. The pursuing FBI copter crashes in the narrow valley and Shellhead returns to rescue the two crewmembers. Tony’s tracking device emits a very loud wail, alerting him to the presence of several armors nearby. He traces the signal to a missile silo, an obvious trap, and is then attacked by Vanguard, wielding a hammer and a sickle, and Fantasma. He is able to defeat both of them before being seized by Omega Red, who wants to drink the blood of a Stark. O-Red batters the rapidly weakening Shellhead around and Vanguard warns against damaging the equipment for the launch but O-Red doesn’t listen. Iron Man blinds the monster with a blast of the Unibeam as the rocket lifts off. Iron Man pursues it, disables the tracking system, and then blows it out of the sky. The power of his armor depleted, he plunges into the ocean. A figure in the Peacekeeper armor rescues him and carries him to the shore. The rescuer reveals himself to be Rhodey—before electrocuting Tony….


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The Golden Avenger Strikes Back
Tony Stark awakens chained to a wall in a dungeon beneath the streets of Manhattan. He is being watched by General Rostov, the Red Barbarian, plus Darkstar, Omega Red, and…Rhodey? Rostov explains that he wants Tony to be weapons designer for his Neo-Soviets. Tony laughs, finding it ironic that the Soviets’ best plan for defeating the West is through stealing American weapons. After smacking his face, Rostov and company take their leave to allow Tony to think it over….Congressman Wyndham threatens FBI Director Stone with severe repercussions if they don’t capture Tony Stark. Stone counters that he knows Wyndham opposes Stark because he has been taking illegal contributions from Justin Hammer. Agent Keith Dekker questions the real James Rhodes as to where Tony Stark is. Dekker explains that Ivan Krushki confessed to being part of a Neo-Soviet scheme to kill Tony but needs to discover the enemy headquarters to rescue Tony. Rhodey is skeptical but Dekker, a former Marine whose life Rhodey saved during Desert Storm, convinces him the Bureau’s interests are genuine….Omega Red is demanding Tony’s Stark’s blood to feed on; Rostov says that was only when killing him was the goal. O-Red goes crazy and clobbers Rostov and the fake Rhodey and heads for the dungeon. Meanwhile, Darkstar, having realized that the Neo-Soviets are not the noble cause Rostov described but an obsession, brings Tony his gauntlets just in time for the two of them to team up to defeat Omega Red. The fake Rhodey runs into Tony, who has the complete current armor on, and believes that he is the real Rhodey who has somehow turned against him. He punches his face and discovers it is a plastic disguise; Darkstar explains that he is a Russian agent called The Actor and Tony can’t believe that he suddenly distrusted his closest friend. Then Rostov shows up in the Hulkbuster armor and a battle begins that soon breaks through into the subway. While Rostov hammers at the hero, Darkstar does what she can to evacuate the station. Hulkbuster has the greater advantage…until Iron Man tricks Rostov into stepping on the third rail whereupon Shellhead lets go with everything he’s got and the villain falls. But Rostov isn’t done and triggers the self-destruct mechanism. Iron Man manages to protect Darkstar behind a force field and they are safe….Later, Tony Stark addresses the media, apologizing for thinking he could solve the world’s problems by giving up making weapons. He vows to create safer weapons as well as continue with the Peacekeeper project; he announces that Rhodey, assisted by Pepper Potts, will be in charge of Stark Enterprises while he goes back east. In his limo he receives a call from Doctor Doom: the supervillain reveals that he knew about the Red Barbarian’s plot all along and aided Tony simply because when Iron Man is destroyed it will be Doom who does it….


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More or Less...the Return of the Molecule Man!
Tony Stark is in the Florida Everglades on a project to rebuild Omegaville, an experimental energy-efficient city which was destroyed by the villain Yagzan in GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING #1; the madman’s petrified skeleton kneels nearby. The Man-Thing looks on from the swamp. Elsewhere, three kids are playing superhero in the swamp; one has the wand of Molecule Man, given to him by the Thing after the villain’s defeat in MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #1. The wand is knocked into a bog and Cynthia goes to retrieve it; she is attacked by an alligator but Man-Thing emerges to save her. The panicked girl flees into the swamp where she disappears beneath the muck and mire….Weeks later, after Cynthia has been presumed dead, the Omegaville project is under way. Suddenly, the sky over Citrusville is filled with giant stone globes which fire explosive spikes. Iron Man does battle with them but the weapons turn into smiley face balloons and burst. A suspicious mob confronts the hero but a geyser suddenly shoots up from the street. Iron Man lands safely but another man is fatally injured by the fall. As the crowd turns ugly, the Avenger departs. Tony Stark interviews the imprisoned Richard Rory, who knows all about the weird stuff in the area since Man-Thing appeared. Rory tells Tony about the Molecule Man—but he is dead. Tony contacts the Vision at Avengers Mansion, who patches him through to Reed Richards who confirms the villain’s demise. On the way back to town, Tony’s car crashes into Man-Thing, As Iron Man fights it, he discovers it is impervious to harm so he uses a cryogen-bomb to freeze the muck monster in its tracks and dumps it back where it came from. From the swamp rises Cynthia, possessed by the spirit of Molecule Man; s/he creates a weird amalgam of their bodies and returns to her home. She transforms her modest house into the Emerald City and turns her strict mother into a rag doll. But the little girl and the mad villain are fighting for control of the boy when Iron Man arrives. Molecule Man turns the ceiling to goo which envelops the hero and escapes.Weeks later, Tony Stark and his team are back in town for the reopening ceremony for Omegaville. Molecule Man turns Yagzan’s skeleton into a rampaging giant monster. Elsewhere, Man-Thing senses fear and heads for the scene. Molecule Man arrives—with the villain having overpowered the little girl in his mind and blasts Iron Man, turning him to solid iron. Man-Thing arrives and grabs the maniacs hand and whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing’s touch. MM drops the wand and all of his manipulations suddenly reverse themselves. A snake chomps down on the fallen wand and is turned into Molecule Snake-Man; Iron Man snatches the wand away and suddenly finds himself battling Tony for control of his body. Man-Thing ends the stalemate by seizing the wand; as the Man-Thing has no mind to inhabit, the Molecule Man winks out of existence. Iron Man ends up wondering at the nature of the muck monster that saved his life.


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The Sons of Yinsen Part Three: The Invisible Iron Man
Story continues from IRON MAN #32.Tony Stark reflects on his origin as he is being tormented by Wong-Chu, along with the Sons of Yinsen, chained around his dinner table. Then Tony sees that the Sons’ leader Sun-Tao has had Wong-Chu’s mark branded on his face while he himself has a small teddy bear hung onto his neck to show what Wong thinks of him. The villain, dressed in bits of the Sons’ armor, gloats and tells Tony that rescuing Professor Yinsen, who is still alive, was the real, secret goal of the Sons. He also forces Sun to relate the other unspoken part of the story: that when Sun carried the mortally wounded Yinsen out of the hut, a portal appeared and a mysterious person known as the Great Salvager took Yinsen’s body away. Wong-Chu continues the tale, revealing that the Great Salvager later auctioned Yinsen off between Wong and the Sons, with the bad guy winning, but also with the Salvager revealing to the Sons that Wong-Chu was alive and well. Wong-Chu now has the upper hand….Tony and the Sons are sent to a prison camp where Tony asks Sun why they didn’t tell him the truth; Sun doesn’t think Tony would have appreciated the holiness of the quest and is bitter that Tony inherited the Iron Man armor. Sun relates how he and the Sons treasured the Master’s words, grew secretly in wealth and power, spread the message, and built New Timbetpal and took off for the skies. Wong-Chu has several villagers killed and gathers Tony and the Sons for deadly “games.” Tony is able to remove the cloaking card he had earlier hidden in the teddy bear around his neck, inserts it into his artificial heart, and vanishes. The shock allows the Sons to turn on the guards and as a brawl breaks out, Tony recovers his armor from Wong’s trophy case and becomes Iron Man once more. Tony enters a code on the card’s keypad summoning the army of Iron Man drones from New Timbetpal and they attack the enemy camp. But Wong is wearing bits of the Sons’ armor and triggers his own cloaking card and escapes. Wong-Chu fires upon Iron Man, moving too quickly for the hero to react properly. Shellhead shoots down some of the drones and the falling bits of red-hot metal force the bad guy to become visible again and the hero gives him a beating. The Sons rush to the fortified bunker in search of Yinsen but a booby trap kills the only woman of the Sons. A drone picks up a machete and kills Wong-Chu; it unmasks to reveal the Sons’ young aide who was in love with the woman. Tony faints...…and is awoken to be taken to meet the rescued Yinsen—revealed to be a brain in a jar. At a ceremony, Tony is given a medal of honor and he flies home. And the young man who killed Wong-Chu is made the new twelfth member of the Sons of Yinsen….Epilogue: New Timbetpal arrives at the island where Tony buried the sentient armor so that there will be a new dawn of Iron Man….


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If the Termini Come... (Terminus Factor Part 2)
Story continued from CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL #9.Machine Man has taken refuge in a remote cabin with his friend, psychiatrist Peter Spaulding, to attempt to repair the detached head of his beloved Jocasta. A mad bear, infected with the Terminus virus (Stage 2 of the creature), crashes into the cabin and mutates into a clawed robot. It clobbers Machine Man, rips off his left arm and eats it. To save his pal, Peter activates MM’s boot jets sending him away from the monster—which then kills Peter….
Not far away, Tony Stark is at Baintronics, meeting with CEO Sunset Bain about a joint robotics project when Machine Man comes crashing down from the sky. Secretly changing into Iron Man, Tony recovers the damaged robot and heads to LA in search of replacement parts. In his absence, Sunset Bain, secretly the villainess Madame Menace, has her staff create a duplicate of Machine Man, planning to replace the original. The Terminus-bear invades, searching for more titanium to eat. Bain quickly calls Iron Man to return to battle the monster. Recalling that cold hurt the monsters in CAP ANNUAL #9 Shellhead douses his foe with liquid titanium but it only causes the creature to grow. The damaged Machine Man recovers and joins in the fight. They dump molten metal on the monster and this destroys it. The heroes then hear on the news that Terminus-infected wildlife is terrorizing Seattle and take off. Sunset Bain, her plans foiled, now ponders joining Jocasta’s head to her robot duplicate to market a line of female machines. Iron Man and Machine Man return to the cabin to repair the damaged robot and deal with the body of Peter Spaulding. They then head to Seattle to deal with the Termini….Story continues in THOR ANNUAL #15.


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Minds In Collision
The Controller tests his new systems, looking through the eyes of various slaves, recalling his childhood as an invalid and determining to be in control one day, followed by a battle among his berserkers, finally having Stark employee Bob Peterson snap and threaten Mrs. Arbogast with a gun in a plot to assassinate Tony Stark. But then Iron Man bursts in and subdues the would-be killer who, when questioned, responds with the Controller's voice....Erica Sondheim examines Peterson and finds no trace of any type of controlling device; here Controller reveals that he has devised a new method of mind control, one without any mechanical aid, namely channeling through a latent psionic named Sarah Jessup. Tony tells Bethany Cabe he will have to face the Controller as Iron Man, using an image inducer to disguise himself as one of the villain's berserkers. But with his new powers he easily detects the interloper and has his berserkers capture Iron Man. Controller pours his energy into the hero's brain, planning to crush him once and for all but something goes wrong: the sudden increase of power kills Sarah Jessup and spawns a monster called Mindstorm which lashes out against the two antagonists. Her psionic violence threatens to tear their minds apart, forcing their memories together so that they experience all of each other's hurts and pains pushing them toward madness. But while the Controller is overwhelmed, Tony Stark acts, using the bad guy's knowledge of the system to shut it down, depriving Mindstorm of her energy and so she consumes herself and vanishes....Iron Man discovers that Controller has suffered a stroke and he is hospitalized and assumed to be in a persistent vegetative state and they consider pulling the plug, unaware that the Controller is aware and able to hear them....2nd story: War GamePencils: M.D. Bright. Inks: Kevin Yates. Colors: Ben SeanA band of villains including Blacklash, Blizzard, Melter, Beetle, Unicorn, and Titanium Man and commanded by the Mandarin, attacks Iron Man. Iron Man takes them all down with a minimum of effort. Here we learn that this is a training simulation as Shellhead asks for another scenario with increased difficulty. Now he battles flying killbots, one of which blasts him out of the sky, then other mechanized killers pursue him and the program can't be shut down. Then he finds himself fighting Crimson Dynamo and a quartet of armored enemies. After a sound beating he looks up to see Ultimo, Fin Fang Foom, and the Technovore again led by Mandarin. Tony patches his brain into the system and discovers it's been sabotaged and shuts it all down from the inside. Abe Zimmer and Philip “Raven” Grant search for the culprit but he is hiding deeply; Tony concludes that he will have to go into the computer system himself—which is what the mystery villain has wanted all along....3rd story: The Media Takes on Tony StarkWriter: Len Kaminski, Scott Benson. Art: Kevin Hopgood.A selection of periodical articles about Tony Stark from news and financial magazines and gossip columns, giving insight into our protagonist's character.


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Unfamiliar Faces
Wealthy industrialist Creighton McCall purchases a silver Japanese mask but accidentally breaks it, releasing the imprisoned spirit Kao-Goto Suru a/k/a the Face Thief. The creature kills McCall and his son-in-law Richard Stevenson. The Face Thief dons McCall's face and is transformed into his likeness to take his place....In Tokyo, the Masters of Silence are awoken to the return of the ancient evil and travel to California to meet with Tony Stark, explaining the nature of the Face Thief and their need for Tony to help find him. Tony trusts them and agrees to help; an intense search of recent business transactions points to Creighton McCall as the monster's new identity—someone Tony well knows. He and McCall's daughter Meredith were in love as teens but the two fathers, rival business leaders, broke them up with only a brief meeting years later. To verify Tony's suspicion, he (by means of an LMD) attends the funeral of Meredith's husband Richard Stevenson; Meredith is upset at her father's callous attitude toward her widowhood and she goes to Tony for consolation but she is soon dragged off by her father, whom sensors show is not human....Later, Tony (the LMD) drives up to the McCall estate and is refused entry by a guard—so the Iron Man remote bursts out of the car and takes on an army of guards. This provides the distraction needed for the Masters to enter the mansion where Meredith confronts the monster, tearing off her father's face forcing Kao-Goto Suru to resume his real form. Kaze of the Masters enters and engages the monster in combat; Meredith flees into the arms of Iron Man and the other two Masters. The heroes tell her to get to safety while they fight the bad guy; instead, consumed with anger and a need for vengeance, she dons the protective gear of a fallen guard, takes up a gun and follows. In the office, Kao-Goto Suru mortally wounds Kaze but Iron Man blasts it, revealing a ghastly form with multiple eyes and tentacles. The three heroes are entangled in the monster's tentacles but Meredith arrives and opens fire on Kao-Goto Suru and it releases the two Masters. Iron Man seals himself and his ghastly opponent inside a magnetic bottle, then unleashes all of his weaponry at once, which forces Kao-Goto Suru to return to its own dimension, vowing revenge. Shellhead, Meredith and the other two Masters escape the burning building and gather around the dying Kaze. Kaminari explains that a Master cannot die until he/she passes on their Warrior Soul to one willing to walk the path of vengeance. Meredith volunteers; Iron Man tries to talk her out of it but she refuses to listen and the spirit of vengeance enters her and the three Masters depart, Meredith asking Iron Man to say goodbye to Tony for her. Tony muses over the experience, realizing he never knew Meredith at all—she was an unfamiliar face in the end....Story 2:- “While the Band Plays On”Writer: Scott Benson. Pencils: Kris Renkewitz. Inks: Brad Vancata. Colors: Kris Renkewitz.Synopsis: Late one night, a band of eco-terrorists take over the Optech building in Silicon Valley because of the plutonium-powered spy satellite that is about to be launched. An alarm at Avengers West Coast HQ alerts Rhodey and Clint so soon War Machine and Hawkeye are on the scene. The heroes crash in, Hawkeye rescues the hostages and War Machine carries the terrorists' bomb into the sky where it explodes harmlessly. Rhodey confronts the terrorist leader who tells the Avengers that the satellite is powered by plutonium; if the thing is launched and there is another Challenger-type explosion the fallout would be a disaster. “At least we were trying to do something about it...all you've done is maintain the status quo.”Back at the HQ, Rhodey is in a bad mood; for some time he has been questioning the value of what they are doing. Hawkeye is proud of cleaning up the world a little bit at a time—but Rhodey isn't: he sees nothing changing as a result of their interventions (“The band plays on...”) and wants to do something more....Characters: War Machine, HawkeyeStory 3:- “Heritage of Vengeance!”Writer: Len Kaminski. Pencils: Jon Czop. Inks: Frank Percy, Tim Dzon. Colors: Troy Sayers.Synopsis: Meredith McCall, newly inducted into the mysterious Masters of Silence, is told of the group's origin and destiny: there is a world of evil spirits called the shinma and the Face Thief a/k/a Kao-Goto Suru is one that had broken through into our dimension. The villain stole the face of noble warlord Tezuka and led his men on a doomed rebellion against the Emperor. Only three samurai survived and they prayed for the power to take vengeance; they were possessed by the warrior souls of Lightning, Wind, and Thunder and committed to the path of vengeance. Since then, many generations of Masters have pursued the mission of avenging the innocent.Characters: Masters of Silence


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Assault on Armor City, Pt. 3, Destroy!
Continued from AVENGERS WEST COAST ANNUAL #7.Stark Enterprises is under attack from A.I.M. forces; Hawkeye and Wonder Man are leading the defense.... Meanwhile, Tony Stark is leading an assault on A.I.M.'s base with Darkhawk, Scarlet Witch, and Spider-Woman. Rhodey goes in wearing the Mauler armor to take down the guards—and then he's blown apart. Good thing he was operating the armor remotely. U.S. Agent arrives, joining the others for the attack. Tony orders them to evacuate as he is going in as Iron Man. Entering the A.I.M. stronghold he discovers his enemy is Kearson DeWitt, the man responsible for the neural parasite which is killing Tony. As Iron Man battles three remote units wearing the Iron Monger armor, he asks why DeWitt has a grudge against Stark; DeWitt reveals that Stark stole designs created by DeWitt's father, ruining him. Iron Man fires a plasma cannon, the neural feedback kills DeWitt, creating a chain reaction that destroys the base. Tony decides he will never be able to keep his designs out of enemy hands so he's just have to be two steps ahead of them.Characters: Iron Man (TS), Darkhawk, West Coast Avengers, Hawkeye, Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter), USAgent, James RhodesVillains:Kearson DeWitt


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In Dreams What Death May Come
James Rhodes is testing his ability to control the Iron Man armour in the skies over Holland when he's spotted by some Netherlands Air Force jets. They recognise him and are OK with him violating their airspace. They even comply when he asks them to fire a couple of missiles at him. (I guess they figure Tony Stark will recompense their Air Force for the loss.)It appears Rhodey is testing out a new computer system which enables him to dodge the missiles. Then he attaches disruptors to shut the missiles down, and then he returns them to their positions on the aircraft.Iron Man gets in touch with the inventor of the computer system Morley Erwin who's been monitoring the exercise. Morley thinks it's working so well it could probably run the armour without Jim having to be there. Prophetic words as the system starts running again of its own accord, and neither Rhodey nor Morley can stop it.Jim thinks someone must be taking control of the armour like Justin Hammer did to Tony Stark in #127. He tries to rip the power pods off his hips, but the system reacts by locking his arms away from his sides. And it flies him across Europe. Rhodey has lost track of where he is and so doesn't know what mountain range he ends up in. But he can recognise a Kirbyesque city on a peak when he sees 1.Some of the strange denizens of the city fly out to meet Iron Man, and start shooting at him. The computer module goes into automatic evasive manoeuvres and then goes on the offensive too, knocking enemies out of the sky with Rhodey's rigidly outstretched arms. But he's way outnumbered and they mob him and drag him down, and secure him with a tractor beam. (Though I don't know why the computer stops firing the boot jets, and never fired repulsors.)They take the still-rigid armour to their leader Lord Kro. They all think he's just a robot weapon, and Kro tells them to dismantle it and study it. But they turn the tractor beam off to get at him. The computer unfreezes his armour and Iron Man is able to fight them off and escape.But as soon as he's got away the module takes over again.. It turns out it'll let him do whatever he wants except leave the city. Lord Kro and his minions didn't seem to be expecting him, so Rhodey figures someone else brought him here. Maybe he'd better try and find out who.Sneaking around as best he can in armour Iron Man sees a guarded door. When the guards get called away he enters to find a load of human-looking folks in superhero-looking costumes asleep or dead. He ducks behind a pillar as more non-humans come in and take 1 of the humans away, referring to him as an Eternal and themselves as Deviants.Jim follows them to a large room containing a giant machine (as Kirbyesque as the city). There Kro prepares to perform an experiment for the Deviant ruler Brother Tode. He removes the brain-mine from the forehead of the Eternal, which has been keeping him in stasis. The Eternal begins to wake up but before he can do anything a neuro-pressor beam freezes his body but leaves him conscious.Kro now attaches a molecular disruptor to the body which gradually tears the molecules of the Eternal's body from his mental control. Which is very painful, much to the amusement of the Deviant crowd. The object of the exercise isn't to kill the Eternal, because they can't be killed. Instead it drives the victim mad, and the molecules slip permanently out of his control.In this state they place the Eternal in the giant Absorbatron, which will vaporise  the body. The resulting molecules still retain the essence of the Eternal. Which Brother Tode now ingests - a process that he believes will give him immortality like the Eternals.While watching all this Iron Man swears to get revenge for the tortured and dead Eternal, and to save all the others. He follows Kro when he leaves.During the the preceding events Kro has expressed objections and sarcastic disrespect. Which become more obvious as he stalks off with his guards. He enters another room but leaves the guards outside with express instructions to keep everyone out, even Tode.Rhodey can't tell what the Deviants' weapons do so he can't defend against them or stop them working. But he can affect them in a simpler way. He makes them fire, and keep firing. While the guards try to switch the guns off, and worry about attracting attention to what Kro is doing, Shellhead slips into the room.It turns out to be another chamber full of sleeping Eternals. Lord Kro prostrates himself before a particular female he calls Thena. He expresses his love for her and then deactivates her brain-mine and asks her to come away with him. The Eternals are doomed and the Deviants are obsessed by their desire for immortality.Thena can't do that. And for our benefit she goes over how the current situation has arisen. After her father Zuras, the Eternals' leader and keeper of the Uni-Mind, fell in battle with the Celestial space gods in Thor #300 the Eternals brought his body back here to their secret city for his funeral.She also describes how the Celestials turned early hominids into humans, Deviants and Eternals. The humans became warlike savages. The Deviants mastered technology and enslaved humans. The Eternals retreated into solitude in their city (but sometimes roamed amongst humans and were treated as gods).Then she returns to the recent past and relates how after the funeral Deviants hidden in the city attached brain-mines to Eternals as they slept. Only Thena, Ikaris, Makkari and Sersi were awake discussing future plans. And the Deviant horde overwhelmed them.Thena can't forget or forgive this. And she can't love Kro if he condones it. So Kro reluctantly reactivates her brain-mine and leaves, expressing a hope that eventually she will change her mind.Jim Rhodes is still there. He figures that Kro has been regularly awakening Thena, and maybe it was she who brought him here. So he uses a narrow focus repulsor blast on her brain-mine. But it has no effect, and neither does a sustained low power attack. He daren't try more for fear of injuring her. And his batteries are running low.He leaves to find a power source to recharge from. His armour can sense such things and leads him to another room with another huge machine that might have been designed by Jack Kirby. While in no way having Tony Stark's ability to figure out what such a device would do, Jim does recognise the control console. He plugs a lead from his armour into a socket and hopes the suit can do something ...... and the console lights up with a message addressed personally to Iron Man and asking for instructions. Rhodey asks for directions to a power source. The computer shows him a map with some highlighted. And the most powerful turns out to be the body of Zuras. This gives James an idea.He goes back for the sleeping Thena, who's heavier than she looks. He takes her and places her next to Zuras. Energy coruscates from Zuras to Thena, destroying the brain-mine. And waste heat from the process is enough to recharge IM's batteries.But the result isn't exactly what Rhodes was hoping for. Thena thinks she is Death and Iron Man is her lover through the ages. She transforms their clothing and their surroundings through several iterations. In the final scene they are wearing toga-like garments. James finally manages to snap her out of it. She reverts to Thena but unfortunately leaving Rhodey as he is, without his armour.It turns out it was Thena who summoned Iron Man. Of course this is the point where Kro and some other Deviants pop in. Thena is very low on power herself, so she plays for time by begging Kro to save the Eternals. Kro repeats that he doesn't care about them, only her. She offers her services to the Deviants in return for her bretheren's lives. But Kro just repeats his plan to elope with her and leave the Deviants and Brother Tode to rot.1 of the other Deviants has apparently been ordered by Tode to watch out for betrayal by Lord Kro. He hurls a spear through Kro's chest. Unfortunately for him Deviant structure is genetically highly variable, and that isn't where Kro's heart is. The other Deviants kill the assassin on his command.Next Thena offers to go away with him as he asks, if only he will let the human James Rhodes go. But Kro can't trust her, and applies a new brain-mine. Then he tells his guards to kill Rhodey. Unarmoured Jim can only run away. They give chase, and toy with him like cats with a mouse. But eventually he manages to give them the slip.Rhodes now dashes back to the computer room. The computer tells him his armour is encoded within its database. As the Deviants find him again he desperately asks the computer for the armour back. It delivers the chestplate and gloves and says the rest will follow.The chestplate deflects ray blasts and the gloves (which also seem to extrude the arm armour) knock Deviants over with repulsor blasts. Then the helmet and hip power pods arrive. Now Iron Man is cooking on gas. And the computer has included data which enables the armour to emit a nerve block designed to KO Deviants.As Rhodey waits for his pants, Tode demands that Kro feed Thena to the Absorbatron to prove his loyalty. But Kro successfully argues that they should process Zuras whose Eternal essence is obviously greater.This is exactly what Iron Man and the computer were hoping for. As Zuras goes into the machine the computer links up to the Absorbatron. The machine explodes, and Zuras's energy destroys all the brain-mines. The Eternals are free. Led by Ajak, Ikaris, Makkari and Thena they burst into the room with Iron Man and make short work of the Deviants.But before the Eternals can celebrate, Thena makes a dramatic announcement. During her contact with Zuras she learned that they have a destiny beyond Earth and among the stars. As the crowd noisily debate her proposal Ikaris leads Iron Man away. He says that the argument will go on for days. Meanwhile he and some like-minded fellows will have a victory party, and Jim Rhodes is invited.


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The Doomsday Connection!
Iron Man crashes into a seemingly deserted science lab in Nevada, in search of M.O.D.O.K. who has been reported alive after his apparent death at the hands of the Yellow Claw in IRON MAN #75. Shellhead is greeted by several robotic guards which he smashes to pieces. But the base’s purpose was to siphon energy and direct it into a cradle—but the cradle is empty and M.O.D.O.K. is gone. Needing allies, he decides to turn to the nearest ex-Avengers, Black Widow and Hercules who are with a new team called the Champions. Heading to their L.A. HQ, Iron Man arrives low on power and, desperate for a recharge, he smashes though their defensive shields. Ghost Rider, rushing to investigate, startles Shellhead, who, not recognizing him as a hero, blasts him with a repulsor ray. The rest of the team hurries to GR’s defense and a brief fight breaks out. Black Widow shouts some sense into everyone and Iron Man gets to the point of his visit. He shows them a picture of M.O.D.O.K. and list three sites in the area where A.I.M. activity has been reported. They split up into three groups to investigate these leads….Black Widow, Hercules, and Angel head to the Petrified Forest, where they are attacked by A.I.M. agents concealed in the trees; the heroes fight valiantly but are captured in the end….Ghost Rider, Iceman, and Darkstar head to an underwater base beneath San Francisco Bay where A.I.M is mutating sea life to create monsters. The villains flood the base and the heroes are defeated by the sea monsters….Searching the Mojave Desert, Iron Man reaches a Franciscan mission where he is greeted by a friar. As he enters, though, the doors are sealed and the padre reveals himself as Stryke, a warrior given steel-hard skin by A.I.M. Shellhead does what he can but his foe is too powerful for him. Suddenly the hero realizes he has been duped; he takes off, leaving Stryke to glory in his “victory,” and contacts the Champions. Black Widow’s team had allowed themselves to be captured as a means of reaching M.O.D.O.K., and Ghost Rider’s group burns its way out of the underwater base, though Darkstar has been seriously injured. They all rendezvous at the Nevada lab, where M.O.D.O.K., who had rendered himself invisible on Shellhead’s first visit, has simply been delaying them while he powered up his Doomsday Chair. The heroes battle an army of modified humans called the “Once-Men” while the mastermind takes off into the sky. M.O.D.O.K. then emits a mental blast that causes the building to collapse, trapping the heroes. Iron Man manages to link his armor to the cradle and receives a superhuman amount of energy. Stronger than he has ever been before, the Golden Avenger vaporizes the mountain and heads after the fleeing villain. He tries to take control of M.O.D.O.K.’s damaged flying chair but the monstrous baddie resists and his chair explodes. The Champions rush the injured Darkstar to the hospital and Iron Man heads off to get some rest.


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When Giants Walk the Earth
At the HQ of the West Coast Avengers, Iron Man (Rhodey) is helping to move a heavy piece of machinery; when done, he takes off, brooding about how his fellow Avengers think he is the original Iron Man. Arriving back at Circuits Maximus, Rhodey and Tony Stark instantly quarrel and New Shellhead takes off again, this time brooding about how he wants to remain Iron Man. His radio picks up reports of an oil rig disaster and he heads out to the scene. There, he props up the collapsing leg of the rig, allowing the Coast Guard to evacuate the oil workers. Successful, he takes off once more, this time in a happy mood....Former Power Man Erik Josten arrives at a shabby warehouse for a meeting with Dr. Karl Malus who asks for a rundown of the villain's history; Josten explains that he was a henchman of Baron Zemo, endowed with super-strength by the Enchantress, fought the Avengers, bopped around the MU for years, worked for Count Nefaria, lost most of his powers, was beaten up by various heroes, and is now here to regain his powers. Using Pym Particles, Malus gives Josten the power to grow into a giant. Naming himself Goliath, he immediately betrays Malus and takes off on his own, walking down the street exulting in the terror and destruction he causes. Iron Man arrives on the scene to do battle but finds Goliath too strong and swift to be easily defeated. The violent battle ends with the giant baddie catching, squeezing, and hurling Iron Man far away. Landing in the desert he rushes back to find the villain gone but citizens angry with him for failing....Back at WCA HQ, Iron Man broods over his defeat and Hawkeye and Wonder Man persuade him to face the villain again with the team. With a special detector they track New Goliath to a motel where the villain grows rapidly into giant size and easily takes down Hawkeye and Wonder Man. Goliath heads to the hills to tear down the famous HOLLYWOOD sign but he is trailed by the trio of heroes who are going to try strategy instead of brute force. Iron Man unleashes sonic waves which drive the foe to madness; growing to 200 feet tall, he blacks out then falls unconscious. As he is taken away, Karl Malus ponders what could have been...and what next....


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Atlantis Attacks, Chapter 2: Two If By Sea
Story continues from SILVER SURFER ANNUAL #2.Lord Ghaur of the Deviants comes to Atlantis proposing an Alliance with Attuma and his forces. Ghaur explains that reassembling the Serpent Crown will allow the elder god Set to return to Earth, conquer it and turn it over to them to rule for him. Attuma likes this idea....Off the California coast, Iron Man is underwater, tracking two Maggia mini-subs which are in turn following a surface ship. By chance, Namor the Sub-Mariner approaches the surface ship questing for the spawn of his late wife Marrina. The ship's crew panics on seeing him and reveal themselves to be Hydra., firing upon Namor. Shellhead joins Namor in defeating the villains who choose self-destruction over capture....Later, Namor visits Tony Stark at his California offices where they discover the ship had a Panamanian registry. Iron Man and Subby head down to Panama to check it out. Shellhead investigates the shipping company and discovers it is owned by Hydra who have just shipped a cargo of a highly-addictive designer drug to New York City. Iron Man intercepts the Hydra ship at the Panama Canal and Namor sees that Attuma has been smuggling his warriors through the Canal beneath the ships. Iron Man does battle with the Lemurians while Namor heads off to stop the Hydra ship. Attuma orders the Omega rocket be fired and Iron Man intercepts it, suffering the full effects of the blast. Just in time, the US Air Force arrives so IM goes off to check on Subby. Just as he arrives, the Hydra ship self-destructs with Namor on board; Shellhead's sensors can't pick up any readings that would indicate the Namor survived. He vows to uncover the Hydra-Maggia connection so that Namor's death will not have been in vain (which takes place back in his own book).Story continues in X-MEN ANNUAL #13.Characters: Iron Man (Tony Stark), James Rhodes, Mrs Arbogast, Sub-Mariner.Villains: Attuma, Ghaur, Hydra, Krang, Llyra, Maggia“Can You Top This?”Writer: David Wohl. Pencils: Multiple. Inks: Multiple. Colors: ?Synopsis: A bunch of bad guys are sitting around in a bar, exchanging stories about their fateful encounters with Iron Man. Each tale is shown by a full page pin-up by a well-known artist—Jackson Guice, Gene Colan, John Byrne, Keith Pollard, and Bob Layton. The villains are Half-Face (TALES OF SUSPENSE #92-94), the Space Phantom (AVENGERS #2), Inoshiro Kondo (MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1990 series) #15), Irina Tarasova (IRON MAN #218), Beetle/Blizzard/Blacklash (IM #223-224), Crimson Dynamo (IM #229), ending with an account by a woman whom Shellhead talked out of suicide. When Iron Man walks in, the baddies all run off.Characters: Iron Man (TS)Villains: Half-Face; Space Phantom; Beetle; Blacklash (Mark Scarlotti); Blizzard (Donnie Gill); Crimson Dynamo“There are No Wire Hangers Underwater”Writer: Fabian Nicieza. Pencils: Don Perlin. Inks: Don Ald. Colors: T. FineSynopsis: Hearing reports that Namor may have been killed in Panama, Andromeda returns to Atlantis where she is halted by guards who try to arrest her. She fights them but is stopped by Colonel Dakkor who is sympathetic to her. She reveals that she has come to end this war between Atlantis and the surface world. She confronts the usurper Attuma and during their duel she reveals that she is his daughter. This just enrages Attuma even more and she escapes with a vow to overthrow him. Dakkor joins her in her mission.Story continues in X-FACTOR ANNUAL #4.Characters: AndromedaVillains: Attuma“Iron Man Portfolio”Synopsis: Full-page portraits of Iron Man characters: Iron Man by Jackson Guice and Bob Layton; A group portrait of Iron Man and Stark Enterprises supporting cast by Guice and Layton; A group shot of various armors by Layton; Iron Man and Tony Stark together by Layton; Iron Man, Rhodey, Bethany Cabe, and the Gray Gargoyle by Guice and Layton; Iron Man vs the Ghost by Guice and Layton; Iron Man by Layton.“The Saga of the Serpent Crown: Blood Feud”Writer: Peter Sanderson. Pencils: Mark Bagley. Inks: Keith Williams. Colors: Marc SirySynopsis: Story continues from SILVER SURFER ANNUAL #2In prehistoric times, the world was ruled by dinosaurs and Set fed on their violent energies; Gaea decided that the future lay with mammals and shifted evolution in their favor. Set responded by compelling the dinosaurs to kill all the mammals. When Set tried to kill Gaea with a demonic dinosaur, she summoned her son Atum, God of the Sun to fight for her. Atum defeated the demon and he absorbed its powers to become Demogorge the God-Eater. He battled Set but with every head he lost, two grew in its place. This cataclysmic war of the gods killed all the dinosaurs and Set retreated to his own dimension. Atum resumed his true form and returned to the sun and Set remained the enemy of mammals and, later, humanity.Story continues in X-MEN ANNUAL #13.Characters: Atum, Gaea, WatcherVillains: Set


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Stratosfire
A wayward oil tanker crashes into one of the support columns of San Francisco's Bay Bridge, the entire structure and the people on it are in danger. Iron Man swoops down and finds himself having to choose between shoring up the bridge so that people can get off safely and catching those already falling. Suddenly the falling people vanish and reappear safely. It is Stratosfire, a female superhero with teleportation powers (among others). Together Iron Man and Stratosfire work to save the bridge and the tanker. Afterward, Stratosfire is mobbed by reporters so Iron Man, a little miffed, returns to work, where, as Tony Stark, he snarls at everyone. Later, he confesses to Rhodey that Stratosfire did make him a little jealous—and that she reminded him of Sunturion, the man turned into microwave energy by Roxxon Corp. He wants to check this out further....

At Roxxon, Stratosfire, or Sandy Vincent, tells her best friend Babs Bendix how exciting and fun it is being a full-fledged superhero. Babs is worried, though, she sees how Sandy is changing. Sandy is called to the office by her boss Jonas Hale, who has been listening in, and given a new assignment as Stratosfire. She is to destroy a small refinery in Costa Gavras owned by a competitor. This doesn't seem right to Sandy but the boss persuades her that it is all for the best....

While Stratosfire is down in Latin America nuking the refinery, Tony meets with Babs Bendix who explains all of her reservations, worries, and fears about her pal Sandy and the new job she has at Roxxon...

The next day, Stratosfire accepts a Good Citizen Award and also presents a check for charity from Roxxon. While there, she learns that her friend Babs is dead, found floating in the Bay. Enraged, she returns to Roxxon and corners the executives in their office and blows the place apart—part one of her revenge. The execs debate using the Zed Control to stop her, but decide to let Iron Man take care of her for them....

Stratosfire shows up at an anti-nuclear power demonstration, intending to destroy the plant. Iron Man arrives to stop her but his armor can't overcome her microwave power and she causes his armor to overload, knocking him from the sky. Stratosfire destroys the reactor then announces she will next be at the San Diego shipyards....

The next day at the San Diego shipyards sees the christening ceremony for a new aircraft carrier. Stratosfire arrives, intending to destroy the ship but Iron Man is on the scene—and he is quickly overpowered with the lady heating up his helmet to boil his brains. Suddenly, a microwave blast hits her from behind; she turns to see Arthur Dearborn a/k/a Sunturion, the first possessor of that power. Stratosfire panics and flees. Dearborn and Tony retreat to Stark Enterprises where the former explains how he was dissipated in issue #144 and reintegrated by Roxxon as their ace in the hole. Dearborn also deduces that Stratosfire's next target will be Roxxon's space shuttle launch the next day....

Sure enough, Stratosfire is there the next day; Hale triggers the Zed Control—a self-destruct mechanism installed in Sandy's body but it turns out she knew it was there and is blocking the signal. So she also dodges both Iron Man and Sunturion to threaten the shuttle. Shellhead reminds her that while Roxxon may be evil, their space personnel is innocent as are their families. This causes Stratosfire to pause long enough for Sunturion to reach into her body and activate the Zed
Control manually. Stratosfire is destroyed and exposure to the blast seems to cancel out Dearborn's Sunturion abilities as well. He and Tony are left to ponder whether Sandy Vincent's madness was all that mad....


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When Innocence Dies
Young Willie Evans has the mutant ability to make images from his imagination become real; his pal, a miniature talking frog named Grunt, often goads him into using his powers for mischief. Case in point: making the teacher's desk spring into life as a menacing monster. Willie's father is called in to talk to the principal but denies everything. At home, Dad tries to scold Willie but armored men burst in and carry Willie off....Iron Man takes his new alpha-particle generator to Project Pegasus for testing. There he meets with his old pal Michael O'Brien, the Guardsman. Seeing a little boy there, Shellhead asks Guardsman about him; Michael pleads security reasons but is troubled by what he knows. When Tony hears the boy scream he wants to take action but Michael halts him....Mr. Evans goes to the headquarters of X-Factor with a gun and accuses them of kidnapping his son. Cameron Hodge talks him into giving up the weapon and takes him to meet with the team. Evans relates how his son had a brush with the Fantastic Four and they referred him to Professor Xavier. The Evans' did not follow up and since Mrs Evans died last year, Willie is out of control. From the description of the armored kidnappers, Beast suspects Project Pegasus....X-Factor arrives at the Project, planning to sneak in but they are caught by Guardsman and a battle breaks out. Iron Man hears this and joins in. Meanwhile, Willie's pal Grunt returns and persuades Willie to pay back those who are mistreating him....Iron Man and Beast have a talk and work out what is going on and get Guardsman and the other X-Men to call a truce. But the entire complex is being attacked by a giant electric crab, courtesy of Willie, followed by huge stone duplicates of the X-Factor heroes. The fight goes against the good guys and hours later, when they are (sort of) recovered, they call for help for the injured personnel at Pegasus and head out in search of Willie...Iron Man meets with Reed Richards and Nick Fury. Fury tells him that SHIELD and the military will be out looking for Willie. Reed points out that Willie is just a kid and there are no easy answers. Shellhead rejoins X-Factor and fills them in on the sitch. Jean Gray then lectures him on mutant rights—Tony tries to defend himself as best he can.The military arrives in Pottersville, N.Y. Hungry, Willie tries to steal food from a store but is caught. Grunt goads him into destroying the store, which attracts the attention of the heroes and Nick Fury. Willie turns the rubble of the store into a marauding giant to fight the army and knocks Iron Man out of the sky when he intervenes. At Grunt's urging, Willie creates a huge force field that expands quickly, forcing the heroes to retreat. Working together they blast the force bubble until Willie tires and it explodes. Willie begs Iron Man for help but Grunt forces him to blast Shellhead. Willie's dad calls out to him but Grunt makes Willie blast him. Grunt is revealed to be the personification of Willie's anger, grown into a sentient being of its own—and responsible for Willie causing the accident that killed his mom. Willie turns on Grunt but his anger has only grown more powerful as Grunt expands into a giant reptilian monster. Willie, realizing his part in all the terror, fights back against his own monstrous dark side and the resulting explosion destroys Grunt—and Willie dies in his father's arms....Epilogue: At Willie's funeral Tony Stark speaks to Jean Gray and she lectures him about tolerance too. Later that night, we see Grunt, sitting on Willie's grave and wishing for his return. “The...End?”


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The Homecoming (Subterranean Wars Part 4)
Continued from NAMOR THE SUB-MARINER ANNUAL #1Iron Man battles a systems test that gets out of hand, damaging his lab and injuring James Rhodes (Rhodey). Summoned to his office, Tony Stark meets an elderly woman causing a ruckus. She is Kala, Queen of the Netherworld and she summarizes her history among the various rulers of the subterranean realms, ending with her losing her youth and falling in love with the Mole Man; now she wants to enlist Iron Man as an ally to rescue her and Mole Man from the Deviants. The Outcasts, a band of weirdos assigned by Mole Man to guard Kala, erupt through the floor; Iron Man, Rhodey and the guards do battle but two of them, Digger and Landslide, carry Kala off. Shellhead pursues, while Kala persuades her two Outcast captors to return her to her own realm where they can avail themselves of the fountain of youth. But Kala was deposed as queen and when they arrive in the Netherworld they are sentenced to death, Iron Man arriving in the nick of time saves them. Landslide sets off a tremor in self-defense and it creates a fault in the Earth, destroying much of the Netherworld. Iron Man uses his repulsor rays to create a counter-balancing shock to stop the quake. Kala, beautiful again in her own realm, is hailed as a hero by her people who call her queen once more. But she refuses, her loyalties are with the Mole Man now and she asks Iron Man to continue the original mission; as they go, Kala starts aging again....Continued in AVENGERS WEST COAST ANNUAL #6Characters: Iron Man (TS), James Rhodes, Kala Queen of the NetherworldVillains:The Outcasts (Boulder, Digger, Water Witch, Landslide)“Tony Stark, the Invincible Iron Man”Writer: Len Kaminski. Art: Don Heck. Colors: Kevin Tinsley.Synopsis: A one-page summary of Shellhead's origin.Characters: Iron ManVillains:“Construction Complete”Writer: Len Kaminski. Pencils: Barry Kitson. Inks: Andrew Pepoy. Colors: Kevin Tinsley.Synopsis: At Stark Enterprises, the sentient computer Quasimodo brings himself online once again, inhabiting a newly constructed body. Tony Stark spots the “intruder” on security camera and tells the guards to evacuate the building, suiting up as Iron Man to face Quasimodo. The two battle until Iron Man uses his control over the Stark tech in his foe's new body to shut it down. Quasi begs to be allowed to ask Stark to set him free from his hideous body. Tony decides the best thing to do is to trap Quasi in a virtual reality where he believes he has an ideal, improved body.Characters: Iron Man (TS)Villains: Quasimodo“The Trap”Writer: Dwight Jon Zimmerman. Pencils: John Stanisci. Inks: Don Heck. Colors: Kevin TinsleySynopsis: James Rhodes, on a courier mission for Tony Stark, is driving along a highway when he is ambushed by the Trapster, miring his car—and then Rhodey himself—in glue. Iron Man arrives on the scene and finds himself shot down and gunked up. The villain is not the real Trapster though, he is Larry Curtiss, a Roxxon Employee, who hopes that this exploit will impress the bigwigs, letting him replace his boss as head of security. But his boss knew about this and has arrived with his bikini-clad bodyguards. The boss orders Curtiss to complete the job by killing Rhodey; Curtiss balks long enough for Iron Man to free himself and chase off the baddies. Then Shellhead and Rhodey hitch a ride with a lovely lady who has Iron Man ride in the back of the truck while flirting with Rhodey.Characters: Iron Man (TS), James RhodesVillains:“Metamorphosis”Writer: Gavin Curtis. Pencils: Gavin Curtis. Inks: John Tartaglione. Colors: Ed Lazellari.Synopsis: Scott Lang is building a large holding pen for Margaret Dultry, former movie star turned animal trainer. Scott is suspicious, though, and returns that night as Ant-Man. The pen now holds a huge insect that can control other bugs—and it wants to kill our hero. The commotion awakens Margaret Dultry and her security guards; Dultry tells Scott that the monster is her sister, the villain known as Dragonfly, only mutated into a real insect. Dultry floods the pen, intending to kill both Ant-Man and Veronica; Scott uses reducing gas on Dragonfly, now mutated into a more human form, in order to rescue her from the deadly waters. Scott escapes but comes back with the police who don't believe his tale until he discovers where they have hidden Veronica—and a lot of other criminal contraband.Characters: Ant Man (Scott Lang)Villains: Dragonfly


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Iron Man Special #2
Reprints the following stories:
““The Uncanny Challenge of the Crusher!” from TALES OF SUSPENSE #91
““The Return of the Titanium Man!” from TALES OF SUSPENSE #81
““By Force of Arms!” from TALES OF SUSPENSE #82


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Two cities
On the Moon Iron Man confronts Udarnik the humanoid Soviet probe that had used Phlogistone, the new metal found on the Moon, to fuel his city Tranquility Gulch. IM had in the end destroyed Phlogistone, dooming the city, because it was deadly to human souls. A side-effect of Phlogistone is that Tony Stark is haunted by a hallucination of Prof Yinsen who died helping him create his 1st armoured suit.Angry Udarnik doesn't understand Iron Man's action because he was unaffected by Phlogistone. As Stark claims because he has no soul. And now the Armoured Avenger is here to ask for his help. The last remaining trace of Phlogistone still contaminates his blood and he wants the android to remove it.Stark explains that he is building Troy, a city of the future on Earth. And he needs his mind clear of the influence of the metal. Udarnik finds it offensively ironic that Iron Man destroyed his city and now wants him to help with Stark's own city. Tony says that a vital part of the future he envisions is Mankind's expansion into space. And then Udarnik will have his Moon city.Stark then suffers an all-encompassing hallucination/dream as he floats naked into space and sees the Moon remade literally in his own image. Next he is in the makeshift lab in the terrorist stronghold where he and Yinsen built the original Iron Man armour. His body has been sliced into (bloodless) pieces. Yinsen says that here is where Tony's heart started beating. (Ie I guess where he learned the consequences of his weapon-making.)He awakens to what seems to be another vision - Udarnik's city alive with light. The android explains that he has siphoned the Phlogistone from Stark's body and used it to power his city for 1 last brief time.Udarnik still hates Iron Man, but sees Stark's plan as his only hope for the future. As Shellhead heads back to Earth he promises to bring people back to the Moon sometime. And Udarnik will be patiently waiting.


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Infinite Destinies
The opening blurb tells us that the Infinity Stones have distributed themselves to new bearers (after Infinity Wars), and this story might reveal 1 of them.Iron Man and Spider-Man (Miles Morales) face a horde of young Moloids in Brooklyn who seem to be here just to enjoy themselves. IM captures 1 who says their leader Mole Man is no fun anymore. They've heard their parents stories about how he used to take them to invade New York City, and they've seen lots of stuff on TV about the wonderful place (mainly from reruns of Seinfeld, Sex In The City and Friends). Tony Stark decides to throw money at the problem. He hires lots of takeaway food trucks and some tour buses.Afterwards the 2 heroes share some takeaway and Miles tells Tony how he was kidnapped (in his (2019)#7-9) by a hi-tech baddie called the Assessor who put him through dangerous/painful tests until he was rescued by his father and uncle (the semi-villainous Prowler). The Golden Avenger promises to investigate (the story reminds him of his super-origin, being kidnapped by Wong-Chu and forced under threat to create a weapon which became the 1st IM armour). Spidey warns him about Assessor's teleporting minion Quantum. He also tells him about a drone of the Assessor's that he and Bombshell smashed.Iron Man examines the drone in the Police evidence pound, but he doesn't recognise the manufacturer. However its comms still work and he's able to determine its control source and smash his way into a Brooklyn building. He fights his way through human guards until he's confronted by a glowing blue figure with a large hole through his chest, who he (correctly) assumes is Quantum. 1 of the villain's tricks is to generate a wormhole in space, poke his hand through it and in this case punch Stark in the face inside his helmet. And also of course to teleport out of the way of repulsor blasts. He then grabs our hero and 'ports them both to ...... the Assessor's test room. Quantum bugs out leaving the big baddie to conduct his tests remotely. Assessor refers to the armour as interesting subject 045-02 and dismisses its pilot as 045-02B. Tony's AI can't determine where they are. The room has no doors so Shellhead creates 1 with a repulsor blast. This leads him to a wind tunnel to test the suit's flight capabilities while dodging laser fire. He uses the room's setup against itself by loosing some micro-munitions which the artificial wind blows to 1 end creating another 'door'.Iron Man struggles through lots more single-panel trials until he finally reaches a room with the 'real' Assessor in. But the bad guy's speech is glitching, revealing that he's artificial. Stark has to face Quantum's remote blows again until the supervillain tries to teleport. But Tony has temporarily quantum entangled them so the baddie can't leave. And then he KO's him with a surprise blast.Now he deals with the Assessor himself. Stark had pegged him as an AI from the beginning and had sent out some Alecto units (mechanical spiders) to infiltrate his system. Assessor tries to transfer his consciousness to another avatar but finds he can't. And Iron Man downloads the AI into his own armour's system where it will be trapped for later interrogation.Later Quantum teleports to another site where a new Assessor materialises from a backup. Unfortunately the backup only contained the 1st 5 minutes of IM's testing, which the 'Board' won't like. He refers to Quantum as subject 002-004, and we learn that Quantum is serving them while they examine his power source, with the promise that they'll free him from it when they're done.An epilogue lets us know that Quantum *does* actually have the Space Stone, and he joins already known users Overtime (from Infinity Wars: Infinity #1 and the Wolverine: Infinity Watch mini-series) with the Time Stone and Star (from Captain Marvel (2019) #11, her own mini-series and the King In Black: Thunderbolts mini) who has the Reality Stone. It also tells us that this is part of the Infinite Destinies story that will run through 8 Annuals this year, and then spin off into the Infinity Score in Black Cat #8-10. Meanwhile the Annuals will also have a continuing backup story which it calls Infinite Fury but the Marvel Fandom Wiki calls Super-Spy Vs Super-Spy ...Pencils/Inks/Colours: Juan FerreyraNick Fury Jr blows up a Hydra base, kills some sort of demon and fights an octopus. All the while his voiceover tells us his background. Marcus Johnson was raised by his mother Nia, and only discovered his father was Nick Fury in Battle Scars #6. He since changed his name and joined SHIELD. His mother taught him to focus and seek patterns. Now he sees evidence of a new player in in the spy game in the data he collects.


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Contest of chaos: part 2
Storm has been hearing voices from her past in her mind. Now she's letting the winds guide her to the source in the Giant Crystal Cave in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. But when she gets to the entrance to the site she's joined by Iron Man who's also been hearing voices and got his suit to track the source through more 'scientific' means.Tony Stark knows that Ororo Munro is claustrophobic and shares that he too has issues with caves, but she spurns his sympathy or help. She comments on his battle-scarred armour, and the editor reminds us that Tony now has limited repair facilities. They descend to the Cave Of The Crystals where they both seem to hear Black Panther's voice. Tony claims to be on good terms with T'Challa but Ororo counterclaims that BP hasn't forgiven him for his Thor clone destroying the Wakandan Embassy in New York during the 1st superhero Civil War (BP(2005)#25). Tony hits back by mentioning her divorce from T'Challa (Avengers Vs X-Men #9), and her stealing the sacred sword Skybreaker from Wakanda during the X Of Swords event (Marauders #13). Storm says those things have been settled amicably.While Ororo tries to sense what the crystals want from her Iron Man tries to contact the Avengers but is blocked by interference. They get separated and the crystals start undermining them each separately, starting by making it seem that the other is continuing to make remarks about them and their team. When Iron Man angrily fires a repulsor blast it almost hits Storm who responds with a lightning strike. Ororo tries to convince Tony that the crystals are making them irrational, but they continue to fight as the crystals now show their teammates belittling them until Storm suffers a flesh wound. Then she produces a blast which literally knocks his helmet off (and it bounces away through the crystal maze). And then martial arts moves taught her by T'Challa and the Wakandan Dora Milaje bring the Avenger down. But a blast from IM brings the roof down and separates them.Tony Stark is now faced with a vision of Prof Ho Yinsen who helped him build the 1st Iron Man suit to escape from captivity at the cost of his own life (need I say Tales Of Suspense #39?). The 'ghost' accuses Stark of sacrificing him for his own benefit, but Tony responds that he's tried to use the armour for good. He fires a repulsor at his tormentor ...... and hits Ororo who faces her own 'ghost' of Amahl Farouk who rescued the orphan from the Cairo gutter and taught her to be a thief. He speaks to the little girl within her and tells her to forget such a 'fantasy' of growing up to be the wind-riding goddess. She drop kicks him ...... and bounces off IM's armour. Tony is then assaulted by 'Patsy Walker' who accuses him of not saving her from Blackheart (even though she beat him herself in the Iron Man/Hellcat Annual). Visions of Happy Hogan and Rescue (Pepper Potts) join in. IM shoots wildly all around ...... and comes to his senses to see Ororo lying in front of him. She convinces him she's real but he still doesn't trust her. He whistles for his helmet but it doesn't return to him and she takes the opportunity to fire lightning again. And Tony shoots too.Next thing we see is blast and lightning emerging from a hole in the ground followed by Storm carrying Iron Man, and many crystals coming after to float in the air. They both grudgingly admit that they were worthy opponents even though neither of them was trying to do their worst. Ororo asks the crystals what this was all about. They don't answer but a purple mist draws her elsewhere. Iron Man contacts Captain Marvel (head of the current Avengers team) and asks for a lift home.Story 2:- Contest of chaos part 2Script Stephanie Phillips. Pencils/inks Alberto Foche, Colours Raul AnguloSpider-Man and Jessica Jones are in her PI office investigating who compelled him and Wolverine to compete for a mystic object in Spidey's Annual. (Logan won and was spirited away with the orb.) Spidey figures it's a magic-user and rambles on about all the possible suspects. Then he wonders why. Meanwhile Jessica has been on the internet and asks him if Storm and Iron Man get on. SM thinks they're friendly but not buddies, so Jess says they've been fighting each other in Mexico and it might be related to what happened to him. He's amazed at her sophisticated software that can locate superheroes worldwide, but she says she just Googled "heroes fighting".But his list of magic-users prompts her to take him to see Clea Strange, Sorceress Supreme of the Dark Dimension (with the ghost-dog Bats and probably in Dr Strange's house). Clea tells them they need to look into the past to a time when chaos reigned supreme.


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To commemorate the release of the film IRON MAN 2 in 2010, variant covers were commissioned for selected Marvel monthly titles around that time. Artists devised new looks for Iron Man throughout history and in different cultures, accompanied by essays. These are now collected in one volume. Armors are: Da Vinci by Gerald Parel; Art Deco by Mike del Mundo; World War II by Joe Kubert; Tesla by Mike del Mundo; Samurai by Scottie Young; Medieval by Marko Djurdjevic; Caveman by Christian Nauck; Steampunk by Skottie Young; Japanese Robot by Tetsuya Aoki of Plex; Cowboy by Ronnie del Carman; World War II Aviation by Bill Presing; Ancient Rome by Gabriele Dell’Otto; Art Nouveau by John Tyler Christopher; ‘50s Automotive by Dave Taylor; World War I by Nic Klein; Pinball Machine by Greg Horn; Civil War by Mike Perkins; ancient Egypt by Adi Granov; Mayan by Humberto Ramos; Monster Hunter by Fred Genet; Atlantean by Greg Horn; Psychedelic by Alan Aldridge; Ancient Greece by Greg Tocchini; Clockwork by Genndy Tartkovsky; Viking by Esad Ribic; ‘50s Sci-fi by Dave Johnson. Also includes preliminary drawings by Tetsuya Aoki and Mike del Mundo.


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Crash
2015: Tony Stark is a recluse behind Stark International, rumored to be an invalid or crippled by a stroke. He has long since retired as Iron Man who is now the star of a children’s cartoon series and a popular breakfast cereal. The company announces that it will start marketing the famous armor, which causes consternation around the world. Stark has contracted out production of the armor to ESON Corporation of Japan which is questioned by Stark’s production manager Jones who does not trust their former competitors but Tony is confident it will all work out. Tony then calls his girlfriend, Dr. Maxie Graham of the Mariana Trench Undersea Research Station, to arrange a celebration over the ESON deal; she tells him to meet her in Hawaii….To combat the growing rise of piracy of artificial intelligence technology, SHIELD calls Nick Fury out of retirement to head the investigation. Fury tells International Monetary Network that the virus behind the piracy is Japanese. Japanese board member Hiro Matsui is insulted by Fury’s accusation which he considers racist and resigns from the board. This is why Fury was brought there: he knows how to stir things up….Fury goes to confront Tony Stark over his deal with the Japanese, accusing them of firing the latest salvo in the information technology wars. He accuses Tony of not thinking clearly because he is taking Perpetuon, a black market drug, to restore his youth. Fury gets mad and walks out….Tony meets Maxie in Hawaii and she is concerned that they are growing apart because of his habit of keeping people out. He then receives a call from the company telling him that after sending the schematics and prototype to ESON they have lost communication with the company. Maxie gets mad and walks out….Tony goes to Tokyo in person to deal with ESON; he is met by one of his Japanese executives Keiko Takimoto. She takes him to ESON to meet their CEO, Hideo Shinoda and his advisor Hiro Matsui (same guy as above); Shinoda attributes the silence to a technical problem in their new communications system and resents Tony’s suspicion, suggesting they should leave further contact to their lawyers. Keiko suggests they relax in the baths. While there, an assassin breaks in and tries to kill Tony but Keiko takes him down (while naked) and drowns him in the tub. Tony discovers his bodyguards dead and he calls Nick Fury for protection. Fury learns that the assassin was a former ESON employee and tells Tony to get out of Japan…but he can’t. Tony dons the Iron Man armor for the first time in years and with a CD-ROM map provided by Keiko, he enters the Tokyo underworld. He locates a Dreadnought spy and downloads his files, learning that his code was stolen from Stark International and modified by Hideo Shinoda at ESON. Keiko brings Tony the object he asked for a remote-controlled Iron Man armor called IM2. Keiko confesses that Hideo Shinoda is her stepfather. Two Iron Men set out….The Iron Men break into ESON headquarters and discover Hiro Matsui and his cronies telling Hideo Shinoda to resign so Matsui can take over and restore Japan to greatness as samurai with the new tech they have been stealing from the USA. Matsui demands that Shinoda commit seppuku to distract SHIELD into thinking he was the brains behind the IT thefts but Shinoda refuses. Iron Man bursts in and beats up all the human bad guys. Matsui then calls in his army, the Dreadnoughts. Iron Man calls in IM2 and the two Iron Men wreck all of the Dreadnoughts. Matsui blows himself up and IM2, acting independently, flies off in the direction of Mariana Trench Undersea Research Station. Tony pursues but the armor breaks down and he plunges into the ocean……only to be rescued by IM2 who reveals that it has gained sentience and is heading off to pursue its own life. Tony and Maxie reconcile and Tony finds that IM2 regularly sends him letters.


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Iron Man: Noir Part 4
Tony Stark has discovered that his father Howard is the villain Baron Zemo; Baron Strucker explains that he had been irreversibly brainwashed and his death faked years ago. Tony, the power level dropping in his armor, bashes Arsenal and joins Rhodey and Pepper Potts in smashing through the castle wall and dropping to the ground—where they confront a pair of Nazi tanks with soldiers. Tony’s armor converts into a three-wheeled vehicle and they zoom off; they head out the gates and off a cliff landing aboard the airship where Jarvis is waiting. They are pursued by a fleet of Nazi airships; Tony, his power almost depleted, leaps out toward the lead airship, the one with the two Barons aboard. Tony smashes through various guards and seizes the trident—and then he is attacked by an army of Arsenals. He uses the orichalcum to amplify his power, destroying all of the enemy airships in a massive chain reaction. Tony plummets into the sea where he is rescued by Namor in his sub….In the hospital, Tony tells the press that he is giving up adventuring; when they are gone, he makes plans for his new adventures to be chronicled by Pepper Potts, starting with a lunatic in Latveria….


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Iron Man: Noir Part 2
Tony Stark, James Rhodes, and Pepper Potts embark on their search for Atlantis. They depart from Spain in the Lady Dorma, a trawler whose captain is the notorious pirate Namor. Tony gives Pepper a history of Atlantis and the story of orichalcum, the “metal of the gods,” which acted as a super-conductor, amplifying power; a statue of Poseidon held a trident with a head of orichalcum. He also confides in Pepper about his father, broken by his experiences in a German POW camp during the Great War, and becoming a great inventor….Approaching the site of Atlantis, the crew breaks out Stark’s miniature submarine; Tony, Rhodey, Pepper, and Namor voyage under the ocean and discover a mountain of wrecked ships, twisted into a vortex. An opening underneath leads to a cavern full of air where they discover the statue of Poseidon. Tony tests the orichalcum with a single volt of electricity and instantly the cavern is brightly lighted. They take the trident head and return to the ship……where they find the Nazis, led by Baron Strucker and Baron Zemo, have taken over. Gialetta reveals that her notes were a plant to get Tony to find the orichalcum for them. Tony sets off a gas trap but the Nazis grab Pepper and take off in their speedboat back to their sub and a torpedo is fired, blowing up the Lady Dorma….


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Iron Man: Noir Part 1
1939: adventurer Tony Stark is leading a party through British Honduras; his companions are James Rhodes, naturalist; Gialetta Nefaria, assistant and lover; and Virgil Munsey, chronicler of his adventures for Marvels magazine. They are searching for the fabled jade mask of the Mayan underworld. Tony discovers the entrance and unlocks the secret entrance. They travel underground through a watery cave and Tony fights a giant snake. At a pyramid, Tony discovers the jade mask—and Gialetta reveals she is working for the Nazis. Baron Zemo and Baron Strucker arrive with back-up and start by murdering Virgil. Gialetta dons the mask and Tony sets off explosives and the villainess is caught in their wake. Tony and Rhodey escape through the water-filled tunnels and surface in the sea where a pair of attractive young women discover them….Back in New York, Tony and Rhodey are introduced to the new writer who will be chronicling their adventures for Marvels magazine—and a stunned to find it is a woman, Ms. Pepper Potts, who is eager to start….Tony and Rhodey go to Stark Lab where they are met by a suit of weaponized armor. It is Jarvis, sidekick to Tony’s late father the inventor Howard Stark. Jarvis is working on perfecting Howard’s designs for a suit of battle armor. Jarvis then performs his most important activity: recharging Tony Stark’s damaged heart with a huge battery….Later, Tony looks through Gialetta’s things and finds maps and a notebook on the lost continent of Atlantis and he has the idea for his next adventure….


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Iron Man: Noir Part 3
A Nazi submarine has fired a torpedo which blows up the Lady Dorma. But beneath the ship there lay a secret: an advanced submarine which is Namor’s primary craft. Tony Stark and James Rhodes join Namor and his crew in escaping the torpedo and they head to safety. Tony, wracked by guilt, suffers a heart attack….He dreams of his childhood and his father’s madness after being broken in a German POW camp during the Great War….Tony awakens aboard the Stark airship, Jarvis giving him the charge that reanimates his heart. Tony confesses to Rhodey that he is a coward, concerned only about himself. Rhodey confesses that he can’t take the fear and uncertainty any longer and has secured another position, in Paris. Tony tells Jarvis to turn the airship around, he must redeem himself by rescuing Pepper and recovering the orichalcum. Jarvis reveals that Tony’s heart won’t stand much more stress, about four hours at most with a booster charge. They trace the Nazis to a remote castle where they are awaiting the arrival of a larger complement of soldiers to escort them and the orichalcum to Berlin. Tony takes the full charge and prepares for action….In the castle, Pepper Potts is being lashed by Gialetta Nefaria while Baron Strucker tells her about the castle’s previous owner, who went mad fighting the Nazis, believing he was the mighty Thor….Tony and Rhodey, wearing suits of Howard Stark’s armor, drop into the castle and begin battling the soldiers with powerful weaponry. When they reach the dungeon where Pepper is held, Tony is clobbered by an even bigger, bronze colored armor—Arsenal. He can’t understand how the Nazis got hold of his father’s designs. So Baron Zemo shows him—unmasking to reveal the face of Howard Stark….


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No end in sight Part 2 of 3: Faking it
This story continues from UNCANNY X-MEN SPECIAL #1.Benjamin Deeds and Mindee (nee Irma, 1 of the Stepford Cuckoos) are waiting for Iron Man. They're wearing SWORD uniforms, sitting in a SWORD spacecraft inside the SWORD HQ, the Peak satellite. They're hoping to persuade him that they're SWORD troopers on SWORD business - instead of trainee X-Men trying to find Cyclops. In Uncanny X-Men Special #1 Scott Summers was kidnapped by the alien bounty-hunting robot Death's Head. Iron Man has had recent dealings with Death's Head. So he invited himself to the party.Mindee could telepathically find out how to fly the craft, but once they got out of range of the Peak she'd lose access to the knowledge. So they'd better wait for IM to fly it - he probably designed the thing anyway.Down on Earth in the new X-school in the old Weapon X site, other members of the school are waiting to join the hunt for their headmaster. Once Mindee lets them know the spacecraft is on the way, Magik will magic herself and Goldballs (Fabio Medina), Tempus (Eva Bell) and Triage (Chris Muse) on board. Emma Frost will stay behind (because Tony Stark would recognise her) with the other 2 Stepford Cuckoos (Celeste and Phoebe) (because she wouldn't trust womaniser Tony with 3 young triplets [who are also her clone-daughters]).When Shellhead arrives chameleon Ben morphs to look like Tony. (I think his power is somewhat involuntary - but it has the side effect of making Stark trust him, so it's good.) Both youngsters seem to be infatuated with the charismatic playboy.Tony takes the helm, and heads out to where he thinks Death's Head might be. Mindee telepathically contacts Magik, who beams her team aboard. Illyana Rasputin stays hidden (because Stark would recognise her too) while the other 3 don SWORD uniforms and enter the pilot cabin. Tony marvels at how young SWORD agents seem these days.Then Stark tells them they're heading for the planet Calculex, 1 of Death's Head's 2 known hangouts. (Recorder 451 destroyed the other 1 - Hope's Pustule - in #14.) When they get there the Golden Avenger leads them into Death's Head's haunt - a 'gentlemen's' club called Flamers.Almost immediately Iron Man is accosted by a diminutive blue alien named Neut who claims the Avengers ruined his life. He used to be an Anachronaut, a time-travelling warrior. But ever since he tangled with the Avengers he's been left here to rot. But in the meantime he's made some friends (a bunch of bigger aliens with big guns), and now's his chance for payback.Cut to a cell where Cyclops is captive with a helmet restraining his dangerous eyes. In the room with him is Monark Starstalker, a cosmic adventurer who's fallen on hard times. He hired himself out to a galactic arms dealer who wanted revenge on Cyclops' brother Havok for a deal he and the Starjammers broke up. Monark didn't want to take on the X-Men himself (and if he'd known Havok was now with the (Uncanny) Avengers that wouldn't have helped) so he sold his pet robot bird Ulysses and hired Death's Head to do the kidnapping. (He expected to make enough money to buy the bird back.) But Death's Head kidnapped the wrong brother, Starstalker won't get paid, and the arms dealer will probably kill him.But Scott says surely Starstalker has someone he could call on for help...Back at the club a fight has broken out, but the X-kids don't want Iron Man to know they have powers. Mindee can use her mind powers without making it too obvious, until Benjamin has to knock her out of the way of a blast. Triage's healing skills aren't useful until the fight is over, and Tempus has to time-freeze an alien to stop him from shooting the other kid. Goldballs' power of firing golden balls would be too conspicuous.I'm not sure why they're concerned about that, because Shellhead has already taken his part of the action to another room chasing Neut. He now takes the fight outside on the roof, but gives the little guy an AA-type lecture about taking responsibility for his own situation. Before shooting him with a repulsor.Meanwhile Goldballs is being chased by 1 gunman, and abandons the earlier tactic and fires balls back at him. While he's looking over his shoulder he runs (literally) into Death's Head. Luckily the robot takes his side and swats the gun-toting alien.Fabio mentally shouts for Mindee, who brings IM and the others. Death's Head has gone, but Medina explains DH told him where Cyclops is - Goldballs paid him in gold balls. Tony Stark is confused by their conversation, and his confusion is increased when Mindee calls in Magik who whisks all the kids away.The last scene is on Earth where Monark Starstalker has come to find Nova for help. But it's not the Nova he knows, it's Sam Alexander.This story will end in NOVA SPECIAL #1.


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In his holding cell at the Hague, Tony Stark studies surveillance photos of the attack on Volstok and recognizes that the pieces of armor shot off the attacker were his own creation. There doesn’t seem to be a good explanation as Tony’s tech safeguards are designed specifically to prevent anyone from stealing and using his armor. He is called back to court to hear the verdict: Tony is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Reed Richards, Matt Murdock, Ezekiel Stane, and Pepper Potts are interviewed for their reaction by reporters. Anton Vanko also has a reaction: he is planning to murder Stark in prison. Tony’s lawyer tells him an appeal would be useless….Mystery villains discuss the problems of Stark’s conviction: no one should have known of Iron Man’s involvement in the Volstok attack, least of all Stark and now his imprisonment will make it harder to employ armor the next time lest they prove Stark’s innocence. Then they enter a chamber filled with Iron Man armors….Vanko goes to the International Criminal Court Detention Center and uses special polymorphic infrared lenses to look through the walls to observe Stark’s tedious daily routine. But what he can’t detect is how Tony is secretly accumulating metal as part of his daily routine and building a makeshift armor in his cell. Pepper comes to visit him and suggests that someone could have duplicated his DNA for his biosignature. Tony scoffs but she has also discovered logs that show he was in his private lab on three dates when he was clearly out of town. Then Whiplash breaks into the prison and comes looking for him. Tony fires a guard’s machine gun at Whiplash’s chest plate, causing it to lock up until it reboots (a known bug with this model), buying him a few seconds to get to his cell and put on his emergency escape armor. He has all of six minutes of power in which to defeat his foe….