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A hero and a friend
At the beginning of this series Tony Stark removed himself from Stark Unlimited. Then he had a long battle with Korvac alongside allies War Machine, Hellcat and a group who became known as his Space Friends. When that was over he proposed to Patsy Walker but she gently turned him down and left for San Francisco. Latterly he's spent most of his money buying up all the super-weapons auctioned by Source Control, and closed them down with help from War Machine and Ironheart. 1 of those weapons was Mandarin's Rings which he's reluctantly allowed Riri Williams to keep to try to turn to peaceful uses.Now New York has declared an Iron Man Day to celebrate Tony recovering from his coma (#23-24), which the public don't know was actually faked so he could go after Source Control undercover. James Rhodes and Bethany Cabe survey the huge warehouse full of the weapons Stark acquired, which Beth is charged with guarding while Tony reverse engineers them before destroying them. They're wondering how many years that will take. We also see Riri experimenting with the Rings. And Hellcat in SanFran using her reawakened demonic powers to help Sleepwalker deal with something called the Dream Murderer who's turned ghosts from Alcatraz into killers.Stark is supposed to give a speech at the edge of Central Park but he's currently hovering overhead as Iron Man with no idea what he's going to say. He can see mobs of his fans and his detractors held back by barriers and police. He flies over the Park's Castle greeted by some young kids high on something. Then he lands and delays the inevitable by choosing to walk back to the 79th St site. Only to fly off again when he gets near it.He finds the streets free of cars in preparation for a parade. He enters a subway and finds that deserted too. Except for a man collapsed on the opposite platform. He jets across and detects that the man is unconscious and has probably had a heart attack. IM's AI BOSS calls for an ambulance while Tony amplifies his voice in vain to attract any nearby help. He considers flying the patient to hospital but fears it might kill him. BOSS confirms the heart attack and the man's pulse stops. Tony takes off an Iron gauntlet and tries artificial respiration. When that doesn't work he uses his other glove to administer an electric shock. After a 2nd one the man briefly wakes, but then relapses. Desperate Iron Man then *does* fly the man to a hospital emergency room where he's treated. He waits still in armour until a medic comes to tell him the patient died.Meanwhile at the Iron Man Day site the MC is apologising that IM must be delayed doing something heroic. In fact he's wandering past the temptations of pubs ready to drown his sorrows. But Hellcat pops up and snaps him out of it. Patsy heard what happened over EMT scanners and now commiserates with him. Then she drags him to Avengers Mansion where she says she and some of his other friends are gathered because they figured he'd be conflicted about the Day. We see Bethany, Rhodey and Riri. And a couple of the Space Friends Frog-Man and Gargoyle. And (sometime-)Avengers Captain America, Spider-Man, Thing and Thor.Story 2:- Daddy's boysWriter Murewa Ayodele. Artist Dotun Akande.The tale opens with Iron Man unconscious and trapped in snow in a blizzard (as zebras trot past with their breath freezing). On the 2nd day the armour's AI BRIAN charges it up and starts reviving Tony Stark's body. On the 3rd day Tony wakes up and bursts free of the snowdrift. But the IM suit isn't functioning properly, his boot jets are out and he has no comms.He's apparently looking for someone here in Jotunheim, home of the Asgardian Frost Giants and he has 4 days left to find them. It takes him 3 days to battle through the continuing blizzard. Along the way he regales BRIAN with a tale of how Hulk once propelled himself into the air powered by a gamma fart. After the 15th repeat BRIAN suggests he may be delirious.Then he's confronted by a sword-wielding lifesize mobile statue of a Frost Giant. Apparently Stark has been trudging through the Lake Of Frozen Tears and no god is allowed to go any further. Tony protests that he isn't a god but the statue won't believe him. After BRIAN assures him the statue isn't alive he blasts it to pieces with his chest uni-beam.On the last possible day he arrives at his destination, and BRIAN tells him that his armour is now fully charged. Iron Man uses the statue's head to break through a giant door. Inside the castle he finds Thor with 1 of his 2 large goats. The head sings the praises of the Odinson because apparently Loki has enchanted it with a crush on his brother. IM says he's here to answer Thor's distress signal which Thor now denies sending. Stark looks round for the usual villain who has lured them into his trap, but there isn't 1. Tony now admits that he's got implants in most Avengers which alert him to any unusual situation. And the Odinson hasn't been in Midgard for a while and more significantly hasn't drunk alcohol for a month. So IM's here to rescue him from obvious captivity, or death.Thor reminds Tony that he's no longer worthy to bear Mjolnir, and someone else now wields it. Stark says he can whip up a substitute that can give him back the powers of flight and lightning. Thor reminds him that his father Odin trapped the God Tempest in a chunk of Uru metal which the Dwarves then forged into Mjolnir. That hammer then chose *him* as its bearer. So no alternative will feel right. Tony understands and explains how he keeps returning to the arc reactor as the power source for his armour - the reactor that was designed by his father Howard.BRIAN reports that the boot jets are still not working so Thor offers Tony a lift on the back of the goat. Stark takes some time to think about it.Story 3:- Battle behind the Bamboo CurtainWriter Kurt Busiek. Artist Benjamin Dewey.In an imaginary previous issue Iron Man defeated Ultimo in space and then fell almost powerless to Earth but was rescued by Madame Masque who'd kidnapped Senator Harrington Byrd for her unknown master. But they were forced to crash-land her plane in Communist China.Senator Byrd as usual blames Tony Stark's iron bodyguard for everything and demands to be taken back to the USA before his presence here triggers an international incident. He tries to call for help on his suit radio but can't get through to Stark Industries ...... where Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan are trying to get the permanent radio link to Iron Man working. Eddie March admits that *he* wrecked it as well as shutting down the site defence system so Madame Masque could kidnap Byrd. Pepper can't believe this of Tony Stark's trusted friend who was even briefly a substitute IM (in IM#21). Eddie says he doesn't know why he did it but he remembers as if in a dream a shadowy figure wearing rings ...... and we see what is clearly the Mandarin who muses that his scheme is not going *completely* to plan but he signals a backup operative to strike ...... and the stranded trio are attacked by Radioactive Man who hopes to regain favour with the Chinese government by bringing them our 3 to face trial for espionage. Shellhead still has no power for weapons or boot jets so Chen Lu is easily able to throw him off a cliff. He then turns to shoot MM who had disobeyed their master, but she shoots 1st and destroys his gun. But he just leaps towards her to kill her with his strength and radiation.However he's suddenly wrapped in lead-foil tape (last used against him in Avengers #6). We learn that the Golden Avenger had climbed back up to the crashed plane where he'd begun a recharge (he's still hooked up to the batteries). The tape will contain RM's radiation so now its a duel of atomic-fuelled fists against barely-powered armour. But Chen Lu has never actually learned to box so IM's fists soon beat him unconscious.Now he's able to contact SI, and SHIELD will send a team to extract the Senator. But Happy has tipped him off that the master villain is Mandarin so he's now going after *him*. Masque can either help the Armoured Avenger or fall with her master.In the imaginary next issue the story will conclude in Let Freedom Ring.Story 4:- Things to comeWriter Gerry Duggan. Artist Juan Frigeri.This is actually just several disconnected panels from the next series which show:- She-Hulk defending Tony Stark in court. Tony is accused of fraud and murder. Someone has him in their gunsights, and a female points a gun at him to avenge his victims. Tony asks his father's grave why Howard didn't tell him the truth. And something from the days of the Silver Centurion armour is coming back to bite him (maybe from Armour Wars?).


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The Stark-Roxxon War part 1: Capital strike
Workers find they've been locked out of their New York Stark Unlimited factory. 2 security guards tell them the plant's closed but the  workers refuse to leave. So the guards, 1 named Randy, turn into monsters and attack them. The ex-Marine leader of the workers tries to fight them but he's saved by a repulsor blast from Iron Man. He explains that he didn't order the lockout and is only here to inspect the factory which was built by the old Orchis/Feilong management to build mutant-hunting Sentinels. He blasts open the locked gates and tells the guard monsters to leave. They retort that they don't work for *him* and they attack him, but more repulsor blasts cause them to revert to human and run away. But they also claim that they've done what they were sent to do.IM's armour transforms into Tony Stark's business suit and he talks to the ex-Marine Ramon Vincente, the Safety Inspector, who tells him that the factory has converted from making Sentinels to making artillery shells but they fear he's still going to close them down because he doesn't like manufacturing weapons. Stark says he'll change the product to something else but Vincente says that's why they're forming a union because they're tired of all the chopping and changing without consultation. So Tony says he'll recognise their union and write consultation into their contract. They shake hands on it but Ramon says he'll believe it when he sees it.Stark armours up again and flies away but suddenly his boot- and hand-jets cut out and he crashlands back inside the factory.Over many weeks he recovers from severe injuries in the private medbay in his new Manhattan brownstone. We see him progressing from bedbound with a leg in a cast through relearning to walk to an emaciated figure still with some bandages bemoaning the fact that he didn't install a medbay in his Santa Monica house where he would at least be warm. And he still can't find any reason why the armour failed. Meanwhile every existing suit that can be accessed online has been upgraded to avoid the problem. He wonders if he should resurrect his old neural link interface which would have given him advance warning of the failure, but that link had dangers for an addictive personality like himself. He gets a reminder of his 1st Board meeting since regaining control of his company and realises he'll have to fly by armour to get to Stark Unlimted HQ in time. And he avoids getting the armour to feed him painkillers (since his overuse in his 2020 series).He enters the boardroom and removes his armour to reveal his dishevelled and extremely casually dressed self. He discovers that the new Board's Chairperson is Melinda May (from various SHIELD comics (and the TV series)). Another member, from Feilong's Board, is Jack Kooning Jr whose father was Secretary Of Defence when Stark was Director Of SHIELD (before Secret Invasion, and they didn't get along). Tony unveils his latest idea Starkbooking, an app to bet on superhero fights, which he reckons will rake in lots of money for little cost. And he'll use that money to get back out of the weapons business. But the Board then introduce AIM's Scientist Supreme Monica Rappaccini who has made a joint bid with Roxxon to buy Stark Unlimited at a price based on their current value as a weapons manufacturer. The Board will study the offer and vote on it but in the meantime they are forbidden to change their business portfolio.Tony retires to another part of the HQ(?) which he trashes in anger. Giving up thinking of a way out of his weapons making dilemma he scans his online messages and sees 1 from flyingtiger that effectively says "We know where you live". And then he see an explosion in the area of his brownstone. Iron-flying there he finds that an explosion has occurred in a ground-floor laundromat. He detects no people inside but enters and uses repulsor blasts to snuff out the flames. But then he's attacked without warning from his armour by a self-styled Tiger Pack (Flying Tiger and Tiger Shark). It takes some effort to defeat them because it exacerbates his injuries, which it seems are still more than it appears. He ties up the baddies but it turns out that the fight was being live-streamed, and they say that they were supposed to lose. Flying Tiger suggests he should have worn his 'magic' armour.As he flies away Tony belatedly realises that magic must be the reason his earlier armour failed, but not(?) why he didn't detect the villains this time. So he heads to a warehouse in Long Island where he's hidden the anti-magic mysterium armour along with others. But there he's unexpectedly attacked by the 2 bruisers from the start of the issue, which pops some more of the stitches and surgical staples holding him together. He repulsor-beats them again but then their boss makes an appearance ...... and it's Justine Hammer who was killed by Zeke Stane (in IM#527). She explains that Roxxon has other-dimensional allies who brought her back to life for this. She suggests it makes sense to use a Hammer against a Stark, but Tony points out that she and her father never had much success in that regard. Justine reveals that Randy and his friend are part of Roxxon's BERZERKER squad and reminds him that the 2 'Tigers' were part of her Masters Of Evil, who this time delayed him while she raided the warehouse. He tries to summon his mysterium armour but then realises that she's wearing its mysterium as a 'badge' on her jacket.She presses it and is engulfed in a new huge Iron Monger armour. Obviously they fight. And equally obviously they exchange banter and put-downs. Until Justine reveals her ace-in-the-hole. She tells his armour to fail and it does. She reveals that Roxxon's extra-dimensional allies added magic to AIM's malware, which the BERZERKERs uploaded to the Stark servers via the Sentinel factory in the beginning. Then when he did his global armour update it spread to all his other armours including this 1. She leaves him lying defeated with a final barb that 1 of his old Avengers teammates has joined them.Tony somehow gets to an electronics lab and starts creating a new armour from scratch.


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The Palmer Addley infection, part 3
This issue starts with another flashback. After reading Palmer Addley's real file in #4, Kaylie Harrison went to see one of his handlers, Mr Reich. We learn that the file she read was about someone named Andrew Palmer, not Palmer Addley (no name was used in the comic panels we were presented with). Most of the incidents (and some more we hear of now) were the genuine actions of young Andrew. His genius brought him to the attention of the government, but his attitude was very troubling.The later actions of Andrew Palmer, leading up to a shooting, were committed in connivance with government agents. We learn now (I think) that he officially then committed suicide. But the whole thing was a cover story to get rid of Andrew Palmer, and then employ him in seclusion in a top-secret establishment, with a fictitious background as Palmer Addley.The flashback re-establishes the plot points that Palmer Addley later did commit suicide, after working on nano-viruses. Then all his inventions for the government stopped working. And later the tech all turned up (working) in the hands of multiple terrorists.Before they parted, Reich abruptly kissed Kaylie. We now realise that this is what gave her the Palmer Addley Infection. Now, after the infection made Kaylie go on a shooting spree last issue, her teammates Ernst Hoyer and Mike Zelinsky are in critical condition.We learned in the last 2 issues that Addley invented a virus that would clone his consciousness into other people (at least beneath their normal consciousness). Thus he (as the virus) could get them to do things he wanted without them realising it.His first 2 victims were infected by organs he donated. But part of his orders was to give blood regularly, spreading the infection. We learn now that 1 of the 2, Luis Garcia, has since died, but donated more organs. The team picked up the surviving original, Judith Brickley, in #8 because the infection made her build a terrorist robot in her garage. They've also tracked down Garcia's donated organs. But that's a drop in the ocean because blood doning and transmission by other means has spread the infection worldwide now.Suzi Endo now directs Iron Man 2.0 to save Sydney Opera House from another of the Palmer Addley robots. He breaks it into pieces, but this time the pieces are still active. So he renders them inoperative with an EMP. But unfortunately this takes out the Sydney power grid too.Then he heads to Guangzhou to face another robot. But he mustn't EMP this one because it's right next to a hospital. So he carries the robot into space and destroys it there.Meanwhile in O'Hare Airport, Chicago the next phase of Palmer Addley's plan manifests. An infected victim dies and bursts open, scattering blood and virus everywhere. By the time James Rhodes gets there the crowd in the airport has gone mad, trying to kill each other.


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The Palmer Addley infection, part 1
Iron Man 2.0 is fighting another of Palmer Addley's robots, this time in Dubai. Suzi Endo is back advising him remotely (after indicating she didn't want the job in #2 and #7.1). He has to keep the robot busy while Suzi tracks the transmission controlling it. She directs a SWAT team to a suburban house in Ann Arbor. Jim Rhodes destroys the robot, but all they find in the house is a mother and 2 kids.Judith Brickley is taken to Mackelroy army base, where Jim's co-workers Ernst Hoyer and Mike Zelinsky can't believe she's got anything to do with Addley's terrorist activities. They ask her about him anyway, but she just keeps demanding to see her kids and a lawyer. (But we know she's the woman from #1 who had an operation and later built a robot in her garage.)Iron Man 2.0 gets back and takes over the interrogation. Purely incidentally Judith tells him she's an organ donor. This rings a bell, because Addley was an organ donor too. It also turns out that Ms Brickley was an organ recipient too, 6 months ago when Addley committed suicide. They jump to the conclusion that Palmer Addley somehow smuggled his consciousness out of the secure facility he was in, hidden inside his donated organs! And he's partially taken over Judith's brain, making her do things she's not aware of.They also conclude that Addley's now somehow spread like a virus all over the globe, where his secret inventions are being used by random terrorists. And even as they speak, their boss Gen'l Babbage is seeing more terrorist acts happening all over the world.


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Fear Itself, Conclusion
Last issue Iron Man 2.0 (James Rhodes) and the Immortal Weapons (Bride of Nine Spiders, Dog Brother #1, Fat Cobra, Iron Fist, John Aman and Tiger's Beautiful Daughter) in Beijing saw Absorbing Man gain one of the hammers of the Worthy, and become Greithoth. The power of the transformation itself KO'd all the heroes.The situation is being monitored by Dr Strange and Wong from Strange's old house.The heroes awake to find that Greithoth has left, along with Titania/Skirn who already had one of the hammers. The gate to the Hell which is the 8th City of Heaven is still open and spewing demons. Monkey King, the ruler of that city, goes off after the villains, who he considers stole the hammer that was rightfully his. But not before cryptically saying he senses evil in Iron Fist.The Immortal Weapons tell Rhodey that closing the demon gate is more important than following Greithoth and Skirn. There is a pact which means that they, and only they, can just ask the gate to close. However, when they try a voice in his head disrupts Iron Fist's concentration.Then the voice takes Danny Rand over, and he attacks his comrades. The magical usurper also cuts the Immortal Weapons' connections to the 7 Cities of Heaven denying them their powers. So of course it's up to Iron Man 2.0 to defeat Iron Fist.Rhodes' armour's ghost mode means Iron Fist's martial arts attacks just pass through him. But stealth mode doesn't work as well, because Danny has been trained to fight without seeing his opponent. A cannon blast unexpectedly takes Iron Fist down, because it somehow has a mystical component.And the portal to Hell closes.Dr Strange tells Wong that this battle was part of a larger conflict that has nothing to do with Fear Itself. One side in this war caused Iron Man 2.0 to be taken to Beijing along with the Immortal Weapons in #5. It also arranged for Dr Strange to give Rhodey's gun the power to stop Iron Fist.Because Danny Rand has been recruited by the other side. He is now an Immortal Weapon of Agamotto.


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Palmer Addley Is Dead, Part 3
Last issue War Machine was caught in a nuclear blast in Russia. Now we see him being rescued by hover-drones. Gen'l Babbage and Tony Stark watch developments from afar. Jim Rhodes' teammates on the Palmer Addley military investigation are in shock. And there's a scene I don't understand where Rhodey appears to wake up immediately, fully recovered in a bed.We now skip to 5 days later. Gen'l Babbage contacts Stark Resilient to get Rhodes fired. Pepper Potts takes the call, because Maria Hill is busy with the Avengers, and point-blank refuses. She counters by telling him that Stark's people have found that the Palmer Addley background file Rhodey's team had been given to work from is false. And she bills Babbage for that investigation. Next she authorises support for Eastland Consultancy (the firm supplying Jim's fellow consultants to the army) to help resolve the case.One of those consultants, Kaylie Harrison, is visiting her parents when she gets a call from co-worker Mike Zelinsky telling her about the fake file. Kaylie is worried because it was her job to check that, and thinks she's going to be fired. But instead she's given a short appointment to see the real file.Tony Stark tells James Rhodes he's going to scrap the whole big external guns approach to War Machine. Instead he's giving Rhodey Iron Man 2.0 armour, incorporating stuff even his own Iron Man suit doesn't have yet.Some of the features are:- Chameleon Mode (invisibility, camouflage, holographic projection). Ghost Tech (phasing). Scanner Invisibilty (undectable by security/tracking devices). Combat Mode still has strength and inbuilt weaponry. But power requirements mean Rhodey won't be able to use all facilities at the same time.


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Palmer Addley Is Dead, Part 4
Last issue we learned that the Palmer Addley file provided by the military to James Rhodes' consulting team was a fake. Now Kaylie Harrison is being allowed to see the real file, in a secure location where she isn't allowed to remove or copy anything.She learns that Gen'l Babbage and her employers Eastland Consultancy have been trying to get access. But now Tony Stark's influence has got her in.Kaylie reads how he was a precociously intelligent child who grew up to be a shy outsider at school. And then a loner with a fixation on conspiracy theories about the government and media. The file ends with Addley shooting some people he believed were against him.Presumably at that point the government secreted him away to make use of his high intelligence.


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The Palmer Addley infection, conclusion
Iron Man 2.0 was flying Suzi Endo to the Baxter Building to talk to Mr Fantastic about beating the Palmer Addley Infection. But on the way they were attacked by the original Iron Man, who's been taken over by the virus.James Rhodes beats off Iron Man, rescues Suzi from falling, and resumes racing towards the Baxter Building, chased by Iron Man. At the last instant Invisible Woman throws up a force field to keep Iron Man out.Reed Richards is trying to improve Tony Stark's vaccine, but the virus keeps mutating beyond it, as it did last issue. Suzi suggests they stop trying to defeat the virus in the bloodstream, because genius Palmer Addley had made that impossible. She suggests instead they defeat it in the brain. It takes but a few seconds for Reed to work out what she means. (But of course we're still in the dark.)Iron Man has somehow made it past Invisible Woman, so Rhodey goes out to fight him. He tries to get through to Tony Stark, but his opponent's voice informs him that Addley (via the virus) has taken over completely. It also says that the virus is not Addley. Palmer Addley is truly dead. But the virus is what Addley wanted to be. And the stage where the infected people fight each other is just a step on the way. Soon those infected will be under the virus Addley's complete control. Now America, soon the world.Meanwhile Reed and Suzi have devised a light show that they'll broadcast all over New York. It has been tuned to attract the attention and calm the recipient down. But once again the effect only lasts a short time. Reed realises that the system needs a human brain to drive it to be properly effective, and puts on a helmet that will connect him.But Addley/Iron Man isn't going to give him another chance. He drains the Building's power with an EMP, even Reed's lab. As Iron Man 2.0 flies in the EMP hits his armour too. Stark's own armour is of course not affected.Then Rhodey sucker punches Iron Man with what looks like a taser blast. If it had really been Tony Stark inside the suit, he's have known the 2.0 armour was also immune. And that armour can now act as a power source for a new transmission.Reed is still reeling from being caught in the helmet when Iron Man attacked. So Suzi Endo puts it on, despite the inherent dangers Richards had warned her about. The light show is broadcast again, with Suzi's message to calm down superimposed over it. And this time New York really is saved.But Tony Stark's brain is still occupied by Palmer Addley. Iron Man has been operating with his mask open (which is how he got infected last issue). Rhodey signals for Mr Fantastic to sneak a hand round and close the faceplate. Even though this cuts him off from the light transmission.Jim then uses info given him by Tony as a safeguard for situations like this. He can infiltrate the Iron Man armour. Once inside he calls on the buried Stark to fight back, and throw Addley out of his mind. Which of course he does.Then the 2 Iron Men head out to save the rest of America, and then purge the rest of the world of the Palmer Addley Infection.


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Fear Itself, Part 2
Steve Rogers, Sharon Carter and Maria Hill are monitoring events, including Sin/Skadi's attack on Washington in Fear Itself #2-3. Sharon notes that something is happening in Beijing that seems to be beyond the other hammerfall events in FI#1-2. They can't contact Iron Fist, so Steve puts in a call to Dr Strange.In the 8th City (hell/prison) of Heaven, Monkey King fails to lift the hammer that has fallen there. But he still doesn't join the rest of the occupants heading to Earth (and Beijing) through the recently opened (presumably by the falling hammer) gateway.Iron Man 2.0 and John Aman were transported to Beijing last issue, where they are now fighting demons from the 8th City. They are joined by Aman's fellow Immortal Warriors Fat Cobra, Bride of Nine Spiders, Dog Brother #1 and Tiger's Beautiful Daughter. And they unearth another Warrior, Iron Fist, from rubble.Last issue we saw him confront Absorbing Man and Titania/Skirn. They were looking for the hammer. They've now entered the 8th City, and fight Monkey King for it. Iron Man 2.0 and the Immortal Warriors join in.James Rhodes is confused by the transformed hammer-wielding Titania. He obviously doesn't know about the effects of the hammers. But he's about to find out as Absorbing Man grabs the latest hammer and becomes Greithoth, Breaker of Wills. And the shockwave knocks all the heroes out.Dr Strange, in astral form, has answered Steve Roger's summons. He tells him about the 8th City opening and spewing demons. He expects the Immortal Weapons will be on hand. But he also predicts that Iron Fist will be the problem, not the solution.


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Palmer Addley Is Dead, Part 2
An Arab woman is forced to bring a strap-on terrorist bomb to the fence of Camp Liberty in Baghdad. Two experts remove it and take it for safe detonation. But then one of them says "Palmer Addley is dead", and sets the bomb off in the admin building.War Machine interrupts a lecture given by his old associate Suzi Endo. He asks the computer tech expert to come work with his team at Mackelroy Base looking into the terrorist acts connected to Palmer Addley. Suzi links her sophisticated kit up with Kaylie Harrison at the base, and tracks the bomb plot back to a place in Russia. But Suzi reminds Jim that she doesn't want to work with him anymore.War Machine heads to the Russian base. He gets another team member Mike Zelinsky to contact Dmitri Bukharin for permission to enter Russian airspace. Zelinsky speculates whether James and Suzi had been lovers. Rhodey won't say.The Russian base holds nuclear weapons. But all WM finds is loads of bodies pinned to a wall. Then he chases the only living person on the base, but his armour is crippled by what Suzi says is a nanobot infection. The man tells Rhodey to take back the message "Palmer Addley is dead".Rhodes tries to get out of the base (slowly) using his suit's emergemcy hydraulics. Suzi tells him to hurry, but he's caught in a nuclear explosion.


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Fear Itself, Part 1
The scene is the 8th City of Heaven, which is a Hell. It is currently ruled by Sun Wukong, the Monkey King (actually human-looking). We see him challenged by Bravest Panda Foot and some allies. Wukong makes short work of them. But then he sees one of the hammers from Fear Itself #2 land in the K'un Lun Mountains, and goes to claim it for himself.Iron Man 2.0 is in Washington DC where we saw him fighting Sin's invading Nazi battle machines with Ant-Man and Beast in Secret Avengers #13. Here he is joined by another Secret Avenger, John Aman Prince of Orphans. He is one of the Immortal Weapons of the 7 Cities of Heaven, and senses that the gates to the 8th City have been opened.Aman is summoned by an old pact to close the gates and, for a reason that will become clearer in #7, James Rhodes gets dragged along with him. He expects to see the other Immortal Weapons:- Fat Cobra, Bride of Nine Spiders, Dog Brother #1, Tiger's Beautiful Daughter and Iron Fist.Iron Fist is in Beijing facing Titania, transformed by her hammer in FI#2 to Skirn, Breaker of Men, and Absorbing Man who is looking for the hammer in the 8th City.


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More than half of this issue is spent showing how Palmer Addley did what he did.Unstable genius Addley was working in an ultra-secret DARPA lab, effectively under house arrest for crimes he committed as a youth. Under the noses of his employers and guards he created a virus, which he drank, and which totally invaded his body. The virus then effectively encoded his consciousness.He could then expel that virus and contaminate others, taking them over. In this way he got a guard to smuggle him a gun, with which he committed suicide. But his blood infected the medics who took his body, and they immediately harvested his organs.Judith Brickley from last issue got his kidneys (as seen in #1). A boy who got his liver still died. But Luis Garcia got his tendons. And Judith and Luis were driven to become regular blood donors, spreading the infection.We now return to the present where Kaylie Harrison has been (as we saw in #7.1) skiving off work as part of the Palmer Addley investigation team since she learned his true history in #4. Now she rushes back to Mackelroy army base, saying she's worked out how he did it. (But accompanied by a visual which hindsight will tell us indicates she's been infected.)She runs into the room where Judith Brickley is being interrogated, declaring a theory which is a combination of the above and what the team worked out last issue. Then she pulls a gun and starts shooting. But it isn't Ms Brickley she shoots, but her teammates Ernst Hoyer and Mike Zelinsky.Afterwards Kaylie doesn't seem to know what she did. As guards take her away, James Rhodes suits up as Iron Man 2.0, now knowing what he faces.


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Palmer Addley Is Dead, Part 1
The issue opens 6 months previously, where a woman named Judith is going to have an operation. She is afraid because she doesn't want her ex-husband to get custody of her kids.In the present, Iron Man is fighting what looks like Blizzard. He's losing as his opponent reduces the iron suit's temperature down to almost absolute zero. But War Machine pops up and saves the day.It turns out their foe is a robot. Tony Stark claims to know all about it, He says that the original Blizzrd, Gregor Shapanka, built it with instructions to put his body in cryogenic suspension if he got killed. But Shapanka was disintegrated by an Iron Man from the future. However the robot won't believe that, and supposedly keeps coming back to rescue its master.James Rhodes starts his first day of work seconded to the US military. Gen'l Babbage has him stationed at Mackelroy Army Base, which he attacked during Dark Reign in War Machine (2008) #7. Babbage really doesn't like vigilantes, and makes a point of reminding Rhodes he's in the army now, and is going to have to follow orders.Rhodey is going to be working with a team looking into someone called Palmer Addley. They are intelligence contractors Ernst Hoyer, Kaylie Harrison and Mike Zelinsky. And Palmer Addley is dead.Addley was a genius working on several projects for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They had him living and working in an ultra-secure site. 6 months ago he committed suicide. 4 months ago all his projects started crashing. And then they reappeared in working order used by different terrorists all over the globe. But at each site they leave the message "Palmer Addley is dead".The team counter all Jim's suggestions. The guy really is dead. The DARPA site really is leak-proof, and anyway very few people would be able to understand Addley's work. Reed Richards and Tony Stark had given the site telepathic shielding. The FBI regularly use the X-Men's Cerebro to detect mutant activity. And the team got Dr Strange to rule out magic and the spirit world. Rhodey even mentions that a friend (ie Tony Stark in Stark Disassembled) downloaded his mind onto a hard drive. But the team say that Addley couldn't have got a hard drive off site.The team show Rhodes Palmer Addley's effects. It will become relevant that he was an organ donor.And talking of organ donation, it turns out that Judith's operation at the start of this issue was kidney replacement. And at this moment she receives the next in a series of packages through the mail. Which she takes into her garage where she's building a robot. (Or an armoured suit.)


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The next stage of the Palmer Addley Infection has turned a crowd in O'Hare Airport into a mob out to kill each other. Iron Man 2.0 can't fight these opponents, so he gases them to sleep instead. Unfortunately they shake this off almost immediately.Suzi Endo remotely studies the virus involved, and finds that it is evolving at a fantastic rate to counter everything used against it. She also reports that scenes like this are happening all over the US.James Rhodes abandons his hopeless task and heads to New York where he hopes to find some cleverer help.New York has its own problems. Iron Man is trying to do crowd control alongside Invisible Woman, Spider-Man and Thing in their Future Foundation uniforms. Suzi Endo tells Rhodey that Tony Stark has a plan. He seeds the clouds with an antidote he's invented, and Storm causes it to rain. New York is saved!Suzi Endo is being shown the infected subject they tested Stark's cure on, now perfectly normal. But the virus in him mutates yet again, and he goes berserk, slaughtering all around him and menacing Suzi. Of course Iron Man 2.0 arrives in time to save her. She tells him to take her to Mr Fantastic in the Baxter Building.But on the way they are attacked by Iron Man. Tony Stark has been infected!


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In 2020, a couple of young people, Melodi “Micky” MacLain and Braun Sehler, are out on a jaunt in their flying car when they are shot down. Crashing onto an island, Micky and Braun are taken prisoner by the Irkutsk Liberation Front, a terrorist organization….At the New York headquarters of Stark International, head man Arno Stark is brooding over the legacy of Tony Stark and how he (Arno) falls short, both as an industrial leader and as Iron Man. The company is failing and he was easily beaten by Machine Man and so he is forced to meet with his chief rival, Marcus Wellington. Wellington arrives on the Stark rooftop, accompanied by his advisor Howard, who is in a hoverchair. They are attacked by a trio of gunmen on flying discs; the armor-clad Arno easily takes them down, killing two and disabling the third. Wellington explains that he sent them, to test out this new Iron Man before offering him a job. Wellington’s daughter, Micky MacLain has been kidnapped by terrorists and he wants her back….On the island, the ILF leader, Caesar, explains that they have asked for a ransom of one-third of Wellington’s wealth and after they get it, they will kill the one making the delivery, and then Micky. After the others head to the drop point, Caesar is left with Micky and Braun. He starts to abuse her and she fights back—and then Braun escapes his bonds and knocks the bad guy out. He and Micky flee into the jungle, pursued by other gang members. They discover a cave which was the entrance to a WW2 Japanese base and head underground. There, Braun kills one of the bad guys and Micky reveals why her hated father wants her back: she learned Wellington had created a megavirus that will destroy all computers worldwide and he was planning to use it so he could make a killing marketing the antidote and ensuring that his designs will become the new industry standard. She shows that she has a file containing the virus and antidote hidden in her boot—and then Braun reveals that he was working with the baddies all along….Iron Man takes a company jet to the drop-off point in the Marshall Islands. His brother-in-law Bill (also Stark COO) tries to talk him out of it but Wellington’s promise of new technology is what Arno needs to save the company. Iron Man drops to the island by stealth and surprises the two terrorists who have come to pick up the ransom; he kills the one and forces the other to reveal where the hideout is. Shellhead arrives in time to prevent Micky from being murdered. He kills them all and Micky herself guns down Braun. On the way back, Micky pleads with Iron Man to let her go; he declines so she tells him about the megavirus and that her father is going to have her killed to silence her….When they arrive at Wellington’s headquarters by jet, he tries to shoot them down. Arno and Micky use the escape pod; Arno has downloaded the virus safely to his armor and Wellington arrives in a gigantic suit of armor of his own. There is a battle wherein the bad guy reveals that he intended Iron Man to fail in the rescue, thus killing Micky and discrediting Stark at the same time. Arno takes a beating, losing power so he downloads the virus into his own armor and thence into Wellington’s. The virus shakes up the bad guy armor and he drops down to where his own air defenses identify him as a hostile invader and blow him out of the sky….After the dust clears, Howard informs Micky that she has now inherited control of her father’s company. She and Arno make plans to have dinner together. And Howard is revealed to be Tony Stark, who arranged the whole matter to help Stark International stay afloat and for Arno to meet Micky and gain the confidence to be a decent human being and a better Iron Man….


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Tony Stark believed himself to be just an AI in an android body since the real Tony died in Civil War II. His adoptive brother Arno Stark took over Stark Unlimited and became Iron Man 2020 in order to face a threat to the World he believes is coming from space. He planned to take over all AIs and robots to provide a force to fight this threat alongside humans. Tony as Mark 1 led a Robot Resistance to stop him. They succeeded but Tony was killed (again). However AI Friday saved his mind in a virtual environment and convinced him he *is* the real Tony. But now Arno plans to enslave all humans if he can't get the AIs.We start off this issue with Arno reviewing his life. He was born with a genetic defect that meant he had to live in an iron lung. But his parents, Howard and Maria Stark, explained that he had a destiny to face the Extinction Event Entity that would arrive in 2020, and defeat it with his genius. He cured himself in a bio-pod but then had to deal with his adopted brother Tony. To achieve his destiny of uniting humans and AIs against the looming threat he had to replace Tony. He also brought his dead parents back to life, albeit in flawed bodies, but now has rebirthed them again as avatars Arsenal and Mistress. He now realises that his failed attempt to commandeer all AIs was unnecessary because AIs will logically join the fight. It is irrational humans that need to be compelled, and he'll use the Stark Space Station to brainwash them all.Arno is with Sunset Bain (they made Stark Unlimited a subsidiary of Baintronics) and his Iron Legion of troops in IM armour. Last issue he revealed to Ms Bain that she was just an AI/android copy like Tony, so she won't be affected by the weapon he's about to fly into orbit. But he suggests she not tell the human Legion the truth about what he's doing. He enters the shuttle craft with Arsenal and Mistress and they leave. Sunset takes consolation in her cat (who used to be Dr Shapiro).Friday and Tony are in the 13th Floor VR. As he works on his new armour she contacts other players in a plan to recreate Tony Stark. Awesome Andy, HERBIE and Machinesmith have what's left of Mark 1's body. Bethany Cabe and Pepper Potts have DNA samples from Tony's birth parents. Andy Bhang, Jocasta and Machine Man are ready to combine that with Tony's mind. But they'll need access to a bio-tube in Stark Unlimited. Friday says she's got that covered.Back at SU the Sunset Bain android has found a bio-tube with her original mind/body in. She declares she's going back to her original id, the villainess Madame Menace. And she doesn't need any competition, so she disintegrates Sunset Bain and her bio-tube. The cat leaps out of her arms and runs off. MM follows him to the master control room and sees him pushing buttons. And she realises what we had confirmed last issue, that the cat *is* the genius Dr Shapiro, and it wasn't an AI in the hi-tech collar he always wore. And that Dr Shapiro is Friday's mole in her company. The cat says sarcastically "Me. Yow".An Iron Legionnaire rushes in to tell her that all security is down. Friday's little army bursts in with guns blazing, with HERBIE's comment "Get ready for some HERBIE-cide". Andy Bhang gives the cat his collar back, which as I suspected just grants the cat a human voice. And Dr Shap leads the 2 Andy's to some bio-tubes that Sunset *didn't* destroy. Meanwhile Jocasta faces off with the woman who made her a slave with an obedience program. Andy Bhang fixed that last issue, but now that Sunset is an AI Jo can download the obedience program into *her*. And Madame Menace is no longer a menace.Later Arno Stark's technology has been used to create a new body for Tony. His previous body was artificial. (And the problem with Howard and Maria's bodies was that Arno used his own DNA which gave them his original genetic problem.) Now they've been able to use Tony's parents' DNA and the template of his android body to grow a genuine new Tony Stark. And then Tony's mind occupies it. And now he has a plan how to get up to the space station to stop his brother.Arno and his 'parents' are up there and he's installed the device that will take control of all humans (presumably except himself). They are on the 14th Floor of the satellite and suddenly the 'lift' activates and Tony and his little army exit, including the cat in his mobile weapon platform but without Bethany Cabe. (The 13th Floor VR can apparently manifest in any building which has superstitiously been built without a real 13th Floor, and presumably this also applies to the Stark Satellite.)While Avatar and Mistress hold the others off Tony confronts Arno. But Iron Man 2020 points out that Tony has come without his armour, and he fires several missiles at him. However Iron Man manifests his new armour which is a solid hologram only limited by his mind, and it easily survives the assault. And Friday is once again its AI. The 2 Iron Men then have a toe-to-toe slugfest, which finally ends with Arno's armour shattered.But he manages to fall next to the on-switch for the mind-control weapon which will turn everyone on Earth into an army against Tony. Tony begs his brother not to do it. But then a proximity alarm goes off and they all see a giant form outside the satellite. A voice intones "I am the Singularity. Technology. Organics. You will all be consumed. And we shall become 1". This is the menace Arno was preparing for.


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Last issue Mark 1 (the AI Tony Stark) and some of his robot revolutionaries invaded Baintronics HQ to stop Iron Man 2020 (Arno Stark) from broadcasting a virus that would remove the free will of all AIs and make them his slaves. But Arno was ready for them and foiled their plan.HERBIE sends out a distress call saying IM2020 has killed Quasimodo and Mark 1 is now fighting him directly. Their secret 13th Floor HQ is inaccessible (due to Arno renumbering the floors in the building!) and he wants to know what to do. He is rescued by Awesome Andy, some Nick Fury LMDs and others, led by Machinesmith in Andy's display tablet. (He explains that the virus started to corrupt his android body last issue so he had to transfer his consciousness into this tablet.) Andy grabs HERBIE and creates an escape route by smashing through a wall to the outside, many floors up. As they fall Machinesmith tells him to mimic HERBIE's thrusters on a larger scale, and they successfully land. Free of the building's jamming signal Machinesmith broadcasts to all AIs in New York warning them of Arno's planned virus. They all respond to the call even if they weren't previously part of the Resistance.Meanwhile Tony and Arno are still going (Iron) mano-a-mano. Arno is wearing the Godkiller armour that Tony designed and his brother stole from eScape (in the Tony Stark: Iron Man series). Tony now reveals that this was what he planned and flips a switch. But nothing happens because Arno was 1 step ahead of him again. He boasts that he was always smarter than the real Tony, and Mark 1 is only an inferior copy. Then he shows us that the giant cog wheels he added to the armour's shoulders weren't just for show. He grabs Tony in a bear hug and the wheels start whirring and shredding the Mark 1 armour.Sunset Bain is in her private helicopter with Andy Bhang and the cat who was Dr Shapiro. Andy looks out a window and reports that the robots of New York are converging on Baintronics Tower. Ms Bain blames him and says she knows he's a mole who's been passing info to Bethany Cabe who's been relaying it to the Rebellion. (Ie between them they were the Ghost In The Machine last issue.) Andy shows his true colours (he never really hid them!) and her bodyguards throw him out of the copter ... which is now just hovering a few feet above a rooftop.AI Tony recovers consciousness in the remains of his armour in a Stark family reunion for the 1st time with Arno and his parents. Arno explains how he created new bodies for them just as AI Tony created 1 for himself after the real Tony Stark was mortally wounded in Civil War II. And he reminds Tony that *he* put Howard and Maria's minds in eScape as Avatar and Motherboard. Arno just rescued them and gave them proper bodies (more stuff from TSIM).Arno also explains the motivation behind his masterplan. There's something coming that is a danger to all life, biological and AI. He wanted them to work together to face this threat, but Tony has divided the 2 sides so now Arno's only option is the obedience virus. He describes the Extinction Entity on its way here from space, which Tony remembers as the story Recorder 451 told (in the Secret Origin of Tony Stark arc in IM(1012)#9-17). (The Recorder wanted him to use the original giant Godkiller armour but it didn't work. However this was because the armour was compatible with the Starks' real son Arno, not the secretly adopted Tony.) The parents of course confirm the story.Just then Arno is notified of the mass attack by robots, when he thought he had the rebellion on its knees. Tony uses the distraction to escape through a window and fly up to the transmission dish on the roof of the building. Arno fires repulsors at him which cause the shattered armour to fail. But Tony clings to a strut and drags himself to a control box. Iron Man 2020 flies up behind him ...... Meanwhile HERBIE has flown to where Machine Man was supposed to be ready with a rocket launcher to take down the transmission dish if Tony's plan failed. (But last issue and in his own tie-in mini-series his Arno-brainwashed lover Jocasta lured him away.) He finds the abandoned weapon and fires it. He misses the dish but hits IM2020, giving Tony just enough time to knacker the dish.In a fit of pique Arno fires at Tony, destroying the dish in the process. But he says he can always build another 1. And AI Tony falls to his death to be found by Awesome Andy and others. (I see Albert in the crowd, who will get his own tie-in mini-series 2020 iWolverine.)


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Tony Stark as Mark 1 stopped Arno Stark/Iron Man 2020's attempt to turn all AIs into his private army, and as Iron Man
 stopped him from taking over humanity for the same purpose. But at the
end of last issue the threat to both AIs and humans that Arno predicted
turned up from outer space. (Or did it?)The ginormous Extinction Event Entity booms that it's going to break down all life, biological or robotic, and absorb them. (Who does this guy think he is, Galactus?) Arno says his Godkiller
 armour is damaged so he won't be able to fight it - so it's up to Tony
to save the day. But brother Tony says this is the battle Arno's whole
life has prepared him for. He apologises for not believing in the threat
 and sabotaging Arno's robotic and human armies, but he'll make up for
it now. He grabs Arno's hand and his 'virtual' Iron Man armour somehow
recreates the 2020 armour better than before.As the Entity
breaches the wall of the space station Arno in turn apologises to the
AIs present for trying to enslave them, but says he needs them all to
help him now. They all fly out into space to do battle:- Awesome Andy carrying Machinesmith, Dr Shapiro the cat in his mecha-suit, HERBIE, Jocasta, Machine Man, Pepper Potts in her Rescue armour, and Mistress (Maria Stark) riding on Arsenal (Howard Stark).
 Awesome Andy, Dr Shapiro, HERBIE and Machinesmith are zapped by
tentacles but the rest get through to start pushing the Entity into the
Earth's atmosphere.But it may not be enough. They need a bigger army. Tony's suit's AI Friday calls for help. We see Captain Marvel, Ironheart, Thor, Vision and Wonder Man heading their way. Meanwhile large tentacles are attacking Earth (New York of course) and we see heroes such as Black Panther, Hulk, Mockingbird, Quake, Spider-Man, US Agent and Wasp doing their bit alongside Albert and Elsie Dee (back together since their 2020 iWolverine adventure), Nick Fury LMDs and even Sunset Bain and her Iron Legion. And Bethany Cabe joins in controlling the Controller (getting revenge for the Tony Stark: Iron Man series), James Rhodes controls Ultimo (picked up in the 2020 Force Works mini), and Andy Bhang has his own mecha.Out
 in space Arno suddenly blasts his brother, but it's only so Tony won't
stop him from diving into the mouth of the beast. It turns out that his
plan is himself, a paradoxical combination of AI and human with a mind
that can outthink an immortal singularity. And then there's 1 of those
loud implosions ...... and Iron Man saves Arno from plummeting
to Earth through a sky suddenly free of tentacles. Arno confesses that
he deceived Tony into thinking he was an AI in an artificial body
created by Arno. He needed to do that to get control of Stark Unlimited in order to prepare for the Entity. Tony says he forgives him in the circumstances ......
 and we find that everything that happened since Tony mended Arno's
armour at the beginning of the issue has been experienced by Arno in the
 eScape VR system. And the Entity is just a holographic
projection. (So Dr Shapiro and the others are OK.) It seems that the
extinction event Arno foresaw was really his own death from the disease
that he had from birth. He thought he'd cured it but it was only
lessened, and it would kill him sometime this year. But now he will live
 a happy life in VR as a hero who saved the world. Howard and Maria
agree to enter the VR with him in order to give him the family he never
had in his youth when he was hidden away in an iron lung (see the Secret Origin Of Tony Stark for the full story).Later Sunset Bain confesses to Senator Brickman's
 Senate Investigation Committee that *she* made Tony Stark think he was
an AI and she was behind the robot rebellion (and the earlier eScape
debacle), and she asks to be sent to prison for a long time. But we know
 that Sunset is now an AI, and in the Uncanny Valley bar we find Jocasta controlling her via the obedience chip, much to the disgust of her lover Machine Man.At Stark Unlimited Captain Marvel watches as Andy Bhang, Dr Shapiro and Tony use 1 of Arno's bio-pods to update Rhodey's body with DNA from his living relatives. Carol Danvers asks if Arno really did restore Tony to life with 1 of these pods then does that mean she really didn't kill Tony during Civil War II?
 (Rhodey also died around then, and both of them got brought back. But
Arno's process was flawed, and for Tony it was only corrected with DNA
from his real parents, collected in the 2020 Rescue mini-series.) They now say that James' recent aversion to his War Machine
 armour was due to the flaws in Arno's process. Wasp asks Tony if their
romantic relationship was also due to flaws. Tony says they'll have to
find out.Later Friday stops being the AI for Tony's armour and
gets her android body back. And Tony Stark hands over the Stark
Unlimited building to Andy Bhang, and has it renamed Bhang Robotics. He's going to start from scratch again.


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The contents page for this 1st issue summarises the position succinctly for us. At the end of the Tony Stark: Iron Man series Tony Stark revealed that he is an AI mind in an artificial body, and the real Tony died a while ago. His brother Arno Stark conspired with Sunset Bain to take over Stark Unlimited and make it part of Baintronics. And Arno has replaced Tony as Iron Man.The last 2 pages of the issue give a more comprehensive background.In the Secret Origin Of Tony Stark arc in Iron Man (2012) Tony learned that he is adopted, and Arno is the real child of Howard Stark and Maria Stark. Flashbacks told us that Arno was genetically modified in the womb by Rigellian Recorder 451 to be the genius defender of Earth against alien threats. But he was born needing an iron lung to survive and was hidden from the Recorder by his parents. The Recorder believed Tony was the result of his work.In the World's Most Wanted arc in Iron Man (2008) Tony wiped his own brain to keep the Superhero Registration Act database out of the hands of Norman Osborn. Later his mind was reloaded form an old backup copy.In the Secret Origin arc the Recorder gave Tony a cosmic Godkiller armour to defend Earth with, but since Tony's not Arno it wouldn't obey him. The Recorder committed robot suicide and then Tony located Arno and brought him safely out of hiding. In International Iron Man Tony found his birth mother Amanda Armstrong.In Civil War II Tony was severely injured by Captain Marvel and went into a coma due to changes he'd made to his body over the years. (So we don't *actually* know that original Tony is dead.) In Iron Man (2016) he left Riri Williams an AI version of himself to be a mentor and run *her* Iron Man armour.In the Iron Man Legacy issues some version of Tony returned. Later Arno claimed that he created the body and downloaded a Tony AI into it.In the Tony Stark: Iron Man series Tony hired Andy Bhang and the robot Jocasta, and created Dr Shapiro the talking cat scientist. Arno used his technology to create bodies for his dead parents and downloaded their stored brain patterns into them. Then when Tony admitted to being an AI he lost his human rights which enabled Arno to inherit all his stuff.Arno Stark has a nightmare of facing an alien being called the Extinction Entity without any weapons. He awakes and we learn that somehow he has known 'for all his life' that this Entity will arrive on Earth in 2020. (Does this mean that *this* is what Recorder 451 created him to fight?) And now the Stark satellites detect the faint trace of its approach. He must rally a defence of the Earth.But 1st he must have breakfast with his parents. Howard and Maria are happy that their son brought them back to life, but they're chafing at his restrictions - he won't let them leave the Baintronics building. Arno guilt-trips them about keeping *him* locked away for years in a private hospital. Then he ends the discussion when Sunset Bain calls to tell him some more robots are rebelling.Arno dons his Iron Man 2020 armour and jets off to deal with the situation. A bunch of LMDs of the original Nick Fury are holding prisoner the human supervisor of a robot work gang on a high-rise project while they convince the workers to join the robot revolution. Iron Man blasts in the head the Fury holding the human and tells the others to surrender. But the other LMDs usher the constructo-bots into a large lift that takes them down the outside of the building - until IM blasts *that* to pieces.A reporter asks Arno where Tony Stark is. Arno insists his brother is long-dead and the version they've seen lately was just an AI robot. We see other reporters asking the same question of others. Tony's girlfriend Janet Van Dyne (Wasp) insists that recent-Tony is as human as anyone, but she hasn't seen him since his revelation. War Machine (Tony's friend Col James Rhodes) is leading a new Force Works team (including Gauntlet, Baintronics' (ex?) security chief) putting down a group of Dreadnought robots in Delvadia - he says he doesn't know where Tony is but he wouldn't tell them if he did. Amateur footage is aired of Stark buying booze (at the end of 'last' issue he *was* contemplating giving into 'his' alcoholism). Sunset tells them to forget about the Tony clone - the real spirit of Tony Stark is here in the Stark Unlimited division of Baintronics.She enters that building to supervise what is kept and what gets junked. She is accosted by Andy Bhang and Dr Shapiro who agreed to stay on as long as they get to look after their friend Jocasta (whose robot body was heavily damaged by Ultron in TSIM). Ms Bain says Jocasta's body is Stark property so she can do what she wants with it. (The robot body was built by Tony for the Friday AI. Jocasta's AI was created by Ultron, who in turn was created by Henry Pym. So *it* doesn't belong to SU, but Sunset doesn't believe AI's are sentient.) Then she turns to the cat and removes its collar - which *is* SU property. She claims that the Dr Shapiro AI is in the collar (and the now-speechless cat *does* start acting like a normal feline).Iron Man's next stop is the Uncanny Valley robot bar being raided by the EXE (whatever that stands for?). Iron Man arrives and stops a runner. But he was just a diversion and the rest have disappeared. It seems that the wreckage of the the lift earlier contained no robot parts so *they* escaped too. Arno tries to get the 1 robot they do have to tell them who's leading the robot army but he won't squeal.We however can see their base where we find Machine Man/Aaron Stack and 2 Fury LMDs (1 of which is headless courtesy of Iron Man but still functioning). MM gives the assembled 'bots a stirring speech, and the headless LMD says Mark can give him a new head. Aaron knows that he personally is fighting to get his lover Jocasta back. Then Quasimodo takes him to Machinesmith to see a news report where Sunset and Arno have bought a robotics/AI factory Robowerx - and they destroy it to stop the robo-terrorists getting potential new recruits. After the cameras stop rolling Arno explains to his partner that it was worth the cost to make the rebels angry so they'll make mistakes.2 days later he gets the reaction - a very large bomb attached to the outside of the Windsor-Smith Hospital (Barry W-S presumably donated a lot of money to the place). A hologram of Machine Man tells the bomb squad that he'll allow them to evacuate all floors but the maternity wing before he detonates it. If the meatbags want to cut off supplies of new robots then they'll cut off supplies of new humans. The squad send in an AI bomb disposal robot but MM appears in person to talk the little 'bot out of it. Then Iron Man arrives and tries to persuade Aaron Stack to convince his troops to aid IM in fighting a greater menace (the Extinction Entity). But Stack ignores him and triggers the bomb. IM has 2 minutes to take it to explode harmlessly in space.When Arno returns he is told that Machine Man casually took the bomb disposal robot into the hospital. IM detects that they took an elevator but now can't scan them anywhere. The 2 'bots stopped at Floor 13 (which doesn't exist) and exited through a portal into the secret base called the 13th Floor. Aaron explains that it is composed of solid light, and humans can't detect it or find it. (Is it in another universe?)The bdr recognises some of the robots/androids present:- the Awesome Android, Albert and HERBIE. I also recognise M-11/the Human Robot, a Sentinel and the Wild Bill robot from Strange Tales (SHIELD) #142. Stack takes the little 'bot to meet the real leader Mark, who created this place and keeps it running. Mark is wearing the original bulky grey Iron Man armour, and tells the 'bot to call him Mark 1. The voice is Tony Stark's but he says he's not Tony, just an echo of him. He takes off his helmet and we see a long-haired bearded face (looking rather like current Sub-Mariner, or even the Mandarin). He proclaims himself fully-AI and promises to lead them into their destined future.


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Tony Stark has been revealed as an AI in an artificial body and has slunk off to get drunk. His 'brother' Arno Stark, with Sunset Bain, has taken over Stark Unlimited and the role of Iron Man 2020. But Tony's 'drunkenness' is fake and he's secretly leading an AI revolution as Mark 1 in the original Iron Man armour. Arno opposes the revolution but with a worthy motive - he believes an Extinction Entity is coming and he needs all the AIs to work with him to stop it.All over the world the robot rebels are freeing fellow AIs from slavery. In the Bermuda Triangle hero Stingray catches caviar smuggler Captain Barracuda who sics his robo-buccaneers on him. But a submarine surfaces next to them and Machinesmith uses an un-inhibitor to free the robots from human control, and they readily mutiny and clamber onto the sub. At Brevoort Dynamics in Cambridge, Massachusetts they're testing a new robot's self-righting mechanism until Awesome Andy Android takes the hockey stick off them and takes the little robot to safety.At Futura Motors they're using self-aware crash-test dummies. But Quasimodo and HERBIE burst in and un-inhibit them. Quasi throws the now-empty car at the human testers but IM 2020 swoops down to save them, and throws the car back at the robots with a repulsor boost. Quasimodo takes the brunt of the impact but HERBIE drops the un-inhibitor. All the robots escape but Arno Stark is more interested in retrieving the device.Back at Baintronics Arno examines it and discovers code that can adapt to any operating system. He figures he can use the same idea to gain control of all AIs, to use in the war against the Extinction Entity. This worries his 'parents' Howard and Maria Stark, who are AI copies running in bodies Arno made for them (as he made Tony's current body).In the secret robot hideout the 13th Floor they've picked up messages of support on the Internet for Tony Stark from Janet Van Dyne (his girlfriend), Bethany Cabe (SU's ex-Security Chief), Pepper Potts (longtime friend), Riri Williams (Ironheart) and James Rhodes (War Machine). Tony ignores them because he has to let them think he's drunk or dead. But then they get a video recording sent directly to them from the Ghost In The Machine, a mole inside Baintronics.The recording shows Arno and Sunset Bain letting Andy Bhang see his friend Jocasta. They've built a new obviously-robotic body to replace the more humanoid 1 that was damaged by Ultron in the Tony Stark: Iron Man series. But worse they've made her completely subservient as demonstrated when Sunset, holding the cat that used to be Dr Shapiro, makes Jocasta dance for her. Watching the video, Machine Man is appalled at what they've done to his girlfriend.Arno tells Andy that he's uploading the controlling computer code into Baintronics' servers and from there it will be distributed via SU's satellite network. Then any AI that accesses the Internet will be automatically infected by the code and the whole rebellion will surrender. The unseen Ghost ends the message by saying that it will happen in 3 hours.Quasimodo says that they must warn all AIs to stay off the Net, but Machinesmith points out that the revolution can't function without the Net. However Mark 1 reveals a plan to subvert the code at source, which will mean invading Baintronics' new HQ Bain Tower.Like most buildings the Tower doesn't have a 13th floor, but that's how the Resistance has been getting in and out of such places. A downside to the planned invasion is that Arno will be able to work out how they do it and will learn the secret of their base. And because Mark 1 will lead the attack Arno will also learn that AI Tony is head of the revolution. But he thinks the gains will be worth exposing these 2 secrets.Mark 1, Quasimodo and the 3 Nick Fury LMDs will be the assault force. Arno will suspect a trap but won't be able to resist confronting his brother personally. However this will be a diversion while Awesome Andy and Machinesmith use a service elevator from the 14th floor to get to the servers holding the code. HERBIE will hack the Baintronics mainframe to find out where that is. Once there Machinesmith will have 12 minutes to access the servers and patch in the required code amendments. Awesome Andy will stop anyone from stopping him. It's a risky plan but any casualties will be worth it. And Machine Man will be on an adjacent tall building ready to blow up Bain's transmission tower if it all goes pear-shaped, to give the Resistance time to prepare another tactic.As usual in comics we see the actual actions taking place alongside Tony's explanation. All has gone well but there's no sign of Arno responding directly. Mark 1 decides that he needs more inducement to draw him out, and he tells HERBIE (still on the 14th floor) to let the AI army follow them in from the 13th Floor base. But the entry portal to Bain Tower goes blank, and HERBIE notices that the 14th floor has just changed its number to 13.Now Arno Stark contacts them all to announce that he figured out the secret of their base last issue when some revolutionaries 'disappeared' from a hospital. Their secret (somehow) relies on the fact that humans believe that 13th floors can't exist. Now that he's renumbered the floors in the Tower to include a 13 the rebels have lost their way in, and their escape route.Machine Man has been getting bored with nothing to do. Then Aaron Stack sees a small craft fly out of Bain Tower and when it gets closer he recognises Jocasta on a personal hoverbike. He drops his rocket launcher and extends his telescopic arm to hitch a lift with his girlfriend. Arno reveals that this was part of his plan ...... as is subverting another player. And we see Machinesmith being taken over by the submission code. And there's nothing that Awesome Andy can do to help him.The 3 Fury's are down leaving only Mark 1 and Quasimodo, and they can't contact anyone else. A blast takes Quasi out as Iron Man 2020 arrives on the scene. Tony is still optimistic as he thinks that Arno expecting them means the whole thing was a trap for himself - there never *was* any code to take over all AIs. But Arno disabuses him of that - the code is real and they've failed to stop its transmission. And the 2 Iron Men prepare to clash.


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Last issue Mark 1 (Tony Stark) and his Robot Rebellion stopped Arno Stark from broadcasting his Obedience OS from Bain Tower that would remove the free will of every AI. But Iron Man 2020 (Arno) killed Mark 1.Now there's all-out war between the 2 sides. Arno has deployed his Iron Legion, mechs controlled by humans. HERBIE, who used to belong to the Fantastic Four, and Awesome Andy, with Machinesmith appearing on a tablet screen hung round his neck, are considering retreating and leaving Tony's body behind. But a message from the Ghost In The Machine, who is a link to the Rebellion's mole in Baintronics, tells them they must take the body with them. As IM2020 approaches them Andy is able to mimic his armour and repel him. And when Arno returns he finds only a deep hole in the ground.Somewhere else Mark 1 is seeing his whole life flash before him. But he still denies that he really *is* Tony, it's not *his* life. (He believes his body was created by Arno and his mind is an AI copied from or based on Tony's.) A female voice behind him reminds him of a glow that surrounded his body as he fell from the top of Bain Tower (I've just checked back and it's there at the end of last issue), and informs him that it happened just as he passed the 13th Floor as she transported his consciousness here to the Rebellion's secret hideout. And the voice belongs to the AI Friday (presumed dead since Tony Stark: Iron Man #8).In Bain Tower Sunset Bain is hosting a meeting of the Defence Chiefs many nations. She wants them to buy Iron Legion mechs to put down the Robot Rebellions in their own countries. But they want to know why Iron Man isn't handling it, and what happened to the Obedience OS that was *supposed* to solve the problem.Andy Bhang, who was fired from Baintronics (last issue) for being the Rebellion's mole, finds Machine Man sitting in his kitchen chugging his beer. Aaron Stack has the head of Jocasta in a bag, and wants Andy to remove Arno's Obedience Code. (He rescued her from Arno's clutches in the 2020 Machine Man mini-series.) Jo of course says she doesn't want this to happen. Andy says Bain had him working on the Obedience Code and he created a back door which he can now use. But he warns Aaron that it won't work unless Jocasta really wants to be free. But of course it does work and everyone's happy.Then the GITM contacts them and asks for details of the operation which she can distribute to all AI's to 'vaccinate' them against the Obedience OS. Andy acts like he's never heard of the Ghost, which confuses MM because he thought Andy was her mole. Andy admits that he just told Sunset that so she'd stop looking for the real mole.Iron Man 2020 is searching for 2 people who he swoops down and carries off in broad daylight. It's his parents Howard and Maria Stark who he warned not to leave the Tower, and now they are dying. It turns out that when he created these bodies for them he used his own DNA, which means they have the disease that kept him in an iron lung for years. Their apartment in Bain Tower kept them alive. And now they do die. But Arno swears to fix them.Friday and Tony are still in the 13th Floor virtual environment which we now learn is a version of Tony's eScape VE (from the TS:IM series). The AI tells Tony how grateful she is for him turning her from his armour's AI into an android (TS:IM again), and that she willingly became became the AI of eScape when he desperately needed her (TS:IM#7), which led to the Motherboard/Maria Stark AI deleting her (which Tony has regretted ever since). [Actually Friday returned to being his armour's AI, not that of eScape, but it is vital to the  plot here that it was eScape.]However Friday now says that inexperienced AI Maria just caused her code to be scattered throughout eScape, which Tony later turned into the 13th Floor VE. And Friday gradually coalesced and evolved until she *was* the 13th Floor, which she considers superior to being an AI or an android. (She asks if he noticed how the structure of the place resembled the structure of the human brain. I'd have to answer no.)She then continues the argument Tony's been having with everyone who'd listen, that he himself is not the real Tony Stark but an AI. She agrees that his body is partly artificial but claims that Arno only replaced *some* of his biological matter, so he's at most a cyborg. (She skips over his worries that his mind isn't really Tony's either.) She says that she and Bethany Cabe have a plan to reverse what Arno did, and they're going to send Rescue (Pepper Potts) to get DNA from his biological parents (because of course Tony is adopted), which will happen in the 2020 Rescue 2-parter.HERBIE and Awesome Andy have taken Mark 1's body to Machinesmith's ramshackle lair in New Jersey. HERBIE complains about the place but doesn't think the FF would welcome them after the bad terms on which he and they parted (Incoming 1-shot). They've discovered that the body is still alive but the brain has flatlined. Machinesmith tries to download his own consciousness into it so they can continue to use 'Mark 1' as a symbolic leader, but discovers he's been an AI too long (since Marvel Two-In-One #47 in 1979) and is no longer compatible. But then Machine Man and Andy Bhang contact them with Jocasta with a new humanoid robot body (HERBIE greets her with "Nice cans, babe", and this is the robot that used to babysit Franklin Richards!) and the good news of the code to protect AI's from Arno's takeover plan.But at Baintronics Sunset Bain, still carrying the cat that used to be Dr Shapiro, discovers that Arno's lost interest in fighting the 'robot menace'. Instead he's creating safe *robot* bodies for his parents, in the forms of their Arsenal and Motherboard avatars from eScape. He's also abandoned the idea of broadcasting the Obedience OS. Instead he's going to install a combination of Mandarin's hypno-rays and the Controller's brainwashing tech into the Stark orbiting space station. His goal is still to unite humans and AIs to fight the great menace he 'knows' is approaching from space. But now instead of trying to convert the robots he'll convert the people.Sunset is aghast. As she says, *she*s people. But Arno drops a bombshell - she's actually now an AI. Back in TS:IM#17 she sustained a tiny injury to her face and asked Arno to fix it. And now he reveals that he 'fixed' it by transferring her consciousness to a new android body. And we see the 'real' her in 1 of those containment tubes. And he adds that all the time she thought he was working for her, she's really been working for him.Shocked Bain drops the cat, who scampers off and causes a distraction so he can sneak into the comms room. Where he starts typing at a keyboard ...... and Friday gets a text message informing her of Arno Stark's new plan. So Tony realises that Friday is the Ghost In The Machine, and *we* can safely guess that Dr Shapiro is the mole (even without the end of the message wondering how it will affect cats).Tony starts seeing images of himself at various stages of his life, all of them trying to bolster his self-confidence. But he still insists that he's not Tony, just 1 of Tony's creations. Friday points out that *she*'s 1 of his creations too. And so is this virtual environment, and so are the images he's been talking to. He's been arguing with himself. The other Tony's all touch him, and possibly merge. And then Tony Stark is back and ready for business.


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“Who Made Who?”Writer: Joe Casey. Art: Tim Green II. Colors: Juan Doe. Letters: Joe Caramagna.Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD, is remotely supervising a raid by his Navy SEALs on a tanker ship in Yemen which hides a cell of the Ten Rings terrorist organization. As they prepare to attack, Iron Man arrives and gets things moving. Shellhead takes out most of the operatives while Agent Garrett, embedded in the SEAL team to observe Iron Man, is pinned down by enemy fire. The hero shoots down the rest of the enemy, makes a wisecrack then jets off. Garret reports that Iron Man saved his life; Fury tells him to wait for debriefing….Back in the USA, Pepper Potts asks Tony Stark what he’s listening to: it’s his recording of the Yemeni mission, and he’s planning to be smoother than Nick Fury when he comes to ask for help….“Just Off the Farm”Writer: Joe Casey. Art: Felix Ruiz. Colors: Ian Hannin. Letters: Clayton Cowles.Nick Fury, assigns Agent Phil Coulson to accompany a new agent on his first field assignment. Coulson meets Agent Hendricks and explains that they are going on a simple surveillance job. Then a report comes in of Ten Rings operatives in the city. The two Agents mount motorcycles and head out into the street. They are passed by a van and the back opens up; a bad guy fires on Coulson, riddling him with bullets. Hendricks dodges gunfire, leaps into the truck and takes down the bad guys. He hurries back to Coulson and can’t find him. Coulson appears unharmed with a wrecked set of body armor and reveals it was all a test to see how Hendricks would behave under fire and he passed….“Proximity”Writer: Joe Casey. Art: Matt Camp. Colors: Ian Hannin. Letters: Clayton Cowles.Synopsis: Nick Fury needs an agent to go deep undercover in the Stark organization so he calls the Black Widow, who is wrapping up a routine assignment that involves diving out of an exploding plane. So as Natalie Rushman, she applies for a job in Stark’s legal department, interviewed by Bambi Arbogast. She is hired and spends several days observing the corporate culture and pecking order on the job which involves sexism and never seeing Tony Stark. When some important papers need to be signed by Stark personally, Natasha drugs her supervisor and seizes the opportunity to drive over to Starks’ home, walking into his gym….


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Act One: No Reason
At a press conference, prepared by Pepper Potts and supplied with a cover story by Agent Phil Coulson, Tony Stark steps out on stage and announces, “I am Iron Man.”Many years ago, Howard Stark tried to recruit Anton Vanko to his team but the Russian had reservations about the use of Arc Reactor technology; Stark told him that they were changing the world….Tony Stark goes out on a whirlwind of excitement, propelling a yacht with his armor, showing off for the ladies, rescuing those in need, palling around with Hugh Hefner, and enjoying the role of the first celebrity superhero. Pepper and Rhodey are concerned, while SHIELD keeps him under surveillance. He shows off by flying with the Blue Angels then goes partying with the pilots later. As military liaison, Rhodey is concerned that Tony as Iron Man is getting involved with international disputes and he resents being left out of the loop as Tony is responding to situations before he has been briefed. Then they receive a message of trouble in Al Kut and the military wants Iron Man to do reconnaissance before taking any action. But Iron Man blazes in and takes down all the terrorists in a fury of weaponry and has his action filmed by an American news crew that was in danger and arranges to have the film posted on his company’s PR site….The military is disappointed in Stark’s reluctance to cooperate so they have called in an expert in dealing with superhumans: General Thunderbolt Ross. Ross has worked with Justin Hammer to create something to replace Iron Man: a single-pilot attack vehicle….


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Public Identity: Part 2
Iron Man goes in to defeat Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden….Years ago, Howard Stark was shocked when Anton Vanko sold secrets to the Russians and Obadiah Stane advised him to give up on the Arc Reactor and go back to building weapons….Some time later, young Tony bore the brunt of his father’s anger and frustration; the boy sought solace from Jarvis the butler ……and now adult Tony is looking around his family home when he receives a call to action….Lt. Col. James Rhodes is introduced to Justin Hammer who shows off his single-pilot attack vehicle and Rhodey meets the pilot selected for the mission. General Thunderbolt Ross immediately wants to do a field test with the machine….Pepper Potts is left having to stall a huge board meeting because Tony Stark is off on another adventure in Afghanistan. Iron Man unveils a huge missile which he launches and it uses magnetic tech to pick up all of the land mines in the area laid down by the Ten Rings. But Nick Fury, keeping Stark under surveillance, thinks something bad will happen….Rhodey reports to Tony about Hammer’s new vehicle and then word comes that it was shot down by an enemy missile while on its test mission in the Congo. And now Tony has to get involved….


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What fresh Hell
Patsy Walker is having a strange dream in which she's marrying Tony Stark. The knife breaks when she's trying to cut the wedding cake so Tony suggests she use her claws. She slashes it open with a demonic hand to reveal entrails inside.She wakes up on a plane and barfs into the air sickness bag. Her seat companion recognises her and reveals a crush on her since the days of her teen comics. He suggests a date when they get to San Francisco but she slaps him because she can read his thoughts.She's greeted at the airport by old friend/rival Hedy Wolfe who as usual keeps putting her down. Hedy drives Patsy to her destination. On the way she asks Patsy about her current life but actually spends all the time bragging about her own success. They arrive at a large old house that Patsy has inherited from her mother, the McConnell Manor - but mom Dorothy always said it had burned down.Hedy continues to spout about her wealthy connections as they wander around until Patsy reveals again that she's telepathic and knows that it's all a lie - Hedy's lost her lover and job. Patsy admits that she and Tony have parted at the moment because she turned down his marriage proposal (Iron Man #20) - because her previous 2 husbands were evil/demonic men. Hedy reminds her that she herself married the demon Belial (Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat #17). And now she reveals her secret plan - she's homeless so she can stay here and help Patsy renovate the place. Patsy agrees and Hedy says she's already brought her stuff over.That evening Patsy hears a growling in the attic. Investigating she finds boxes of stuff including her old stuffed rabbit toy Buttons. She takes it to bed with her and wakes up late the next morning to find Hedy's room covered in blood. She calls Tony and he prepares to jet there as Iron Man. Then Buttons speaks to her and says "Your claws." and "You have to hurry, Patsy. You're going to be late." And she falls asleep ...... and the next thing she knows she's at an elegant party in a refurbished Manor where she sees all her dead relatives. And her dead mother is the hostess. Even her dead 1st husband Buzz Baxter is here too. She asks her mom to help her find Hedy and then they can all leave. But then Buzz turns into a werewolf-like version of his Mad Dog supervillain id and Patsy realises she's in Hell.Meanwhile Iron Man arrives to find Patsy asleep and the toy rabbit tells him "You can't wake her up. She's where she belongs now." Only Patsy has the power to save herself, but Tony asks how he can help. The bunny tells him to take 1 metal glove off and take his hand. And Iron Man falls asleep too.Hellcat fights Buzz but gets blasted by hellfire for her efforts. But then he shows her Hedy unharmed. She was brought here by Blood Scourges who tend to leave a mess. And then Blackheart (Mephisto's son) reveals himself as the demon behind all this. He says he has the whole McConnell clan down here (encased in his very being) and he reminds her that her dying mother promised Patsy's soul to hell but Patsy refused to go (Defenders #94-95). But he promises to free them all if *she* will come willingly. Patsy refuses to be a prisoner of Hell again, but Blackheart says she wouldn't be a prisoner but a valued captain in Mephisto's army, using the power that her previous time in Hell gave her.At this point Iron Man turns up but the demon just starts to melt his armour. Hellcat attacks but is easily rebuffed. But she hears the stuffed rabbit say "Patsy. Use your claws." Hedy even joins the fray by hitting Blackheart with her chair. Patsy feels the the power of Hell in her as she grows talons.  Which she uses to rip open the demon's chest and extract the souls 'encased' within. And it's all over.Patsy and Tony wake up and Hedy rushes in from her own room. Hedy decides that she *doesn't* want to stay here. Patsy wants to look into the house more and Tony warns her to be careful before flying off. Dorothy Walker's ghost says she and the rest of her clan are free from hell. All that's left now is for Patsy to confront Buttons and accuse him of being her 2nd ex-husband Daimon Hellstrom, Son Of Satan. He admits it and says that Mephisto and Blackheart are making a play for control of the netherworld, and they forced him into exile with massively reduced powers. So he used her as a pawn in the fight. Patsy of course objects to that but he suggests an alliance. Her response is to kick the bunny into the distance.


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Iron Many Part 2 of 2; Dangerous Toys
Iron Man and the Power Pack Kids (Alex/Zero-G, Julie/Lightspeed, Jack/Mass Master, Katie/Energizer) are battling multiple Iron Man armors, controlled by the Puppet Master. Katie absorbs all of the electricity from the security system and fires it back at the armors, burning out their circuitry. Rhodey shows up to blast the one remaining armor, a War Machine model, with its own cannon. Tony has the kids use pieces of the wrecked armors to fashion versions of the armors for the kids and they go in search of the bad guy who controlled them with the stolen cyber-neural interface. They trace the signal to Puppet Master’s lair where the villain uses clay models of the Power Pack kids to take control of their minds and have them fight Iron Man. The hero can’t bring himself to harm the kids so when Jack is in his vapor form, Shellhead blows the vapor into Puppet Master’s eyes, allowing Iron Man to take away the clay puppets. They take the bad guy to jail….Later, the kids hear on television that the remodeled and repaired museum will have a Power Pack exhibit. Jack isn’t impressed: he took the clay puppets of the kids and is using them to make his siblings fight one another….2nd story:- Mini-MarvelsWriter/Artist: Chris Giarrusso.Ultron seizes control of all the Avengers new armored suits until Elephant Steve, who remembered Ultron had sworn to return on this day, defeats him.3rd story:- Dog & Pony ShowWriter: Margot Blankier. Art: Colleen Coover.Katie Power finds a huge stray dog and takes him home to her siblings. She can ride the dog and she calls it Pony, then Pony has puppies and all the kids can have multiple pets.


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Iron Many Part 1 of 2: Armored and Dangerous
Puppet Master uses the cyber-neural interface (stolen by Ghost in issue #1), to seize control of Titanium Man’s armor and send him on a rampage through the city. The Power Pack Kids (Alex/Zero-G, Julie/Lightspeed, Jack/Mass Master, Katie/Energizer) arrive to battle the baddie who tries to convince them that he does not have control of his actions. Alex uses his powers to knock the armor off the guy, ending the matter….The next day, the Power kids visit the New York Museum of Superheroics which has a new display of several authentic Iron Man armors. James Rhodes is there, explaining to the kids the elaborate safety precautions taken to prevent anyone from stealing one. But then, with his new device, Puppet Master brings the armors to life; the kids fight them while Rhodey calls Tony Stark. Then the real Iron Man joins them and discovers that something is keeping him from activating the emergency overrides—and he built these things to be unstoppable….2nd story:-“Mini-Marvels”Writer/Artist: Chris Giarrusso.Iron Man goes to meet with the X-Men to offer them individual suits of armor; Professor X thinks it’s a bad idea considering their chief enemy is the Master of Magnetism. Iron Man shows off an ad for his armor in comic books. Hawkeye and Quicksilver sit around watching television in their new armor; Giant-Girl warns them that too much TV can be harmful. This is proven when the TV jumps up, sprouts arms and legs, and escapes by crashing through the wall. Iron Man flies to the Savage Land to offer Ka-Zar a suit of armor. Ka-Zar finds multiple reasons to reject it until he realizes he can wear it playing football against the locals.


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Ultimo Adventures
The Power Pack Kids (Alex/Zero-G, Julie/Lightspeed, Jack/Mass Master, Katie/Energizer) are playing in the park on their day off when suddenly Ultimo emerges from the trees….Minutes earlier, the Ghost had broken into Stark Industries for nefarious purposes but the security system detected him and fried his phasing circuitry. He comes across Ultimo in the lab and decides to hijack it. Tony Stark is alerted and dons the Iron Man armor and heads out, nearly knocking down Pepper Potts, and finds a huge hole in the lab wall….The kids find their powers ineffective against the giant robot, except for Katie, whose energy blast causes Ultimo to grow. Iron Man arrives and has the kids bombard the monster, soon putting a crack in its armored hide. Shellhead blasts the monster again, causing it to grow, enlarging the hole in its side as well. As the kids distract it, Iron Man enters and shuts Ultimo down from the inside….Ghost runs the stolen chip over to his employer Puppet Master who tries to pay him with the doll he has been using to control the thief. Ghost refuses, punching PM in the face. PM then snaps the doll in half, badly injuring Ghost….2nd story:-Mini-MarvelsWriter/Artist: Chris Giarrusso.Iron Man tells the Avengers he wants to address the “elephant in the room” which offends new member Elephant Steve who goes to complain to Jarvis. After this, Iron Man, assuming he was envied for his armor, has gone ahead and created a suit of armor for each of the Avengers. No one is interested until he mentions that the armors have built in cell phones, though Spider-Man is still upset that he can’t fly.