Featuring: Iron Man
Release: April 8, 1965
Cover: July 1965
12 cents
Written by our roguish writer: Stan Lee
Pencilled by our prankish penciller: Don Heck
Inked by our impish inker: Mickey Demeo
Lettered by our other letter: S. Rosen
12 pages
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The drama from last issue continues. Happy has quit; Pepper is sad; she blames Iron Man.
Count Nefaria of the Maggia returns, but with a new gimmick and identity. He now calls himself the Master of Dreams. Perhaps also Dream-Maker or Dream-Master; Stan can’t decide from one page to the next. He controls Iron Man’s dreams and sends old foes against him; if Iron Man dies in the dream, he will die.
Happy’s grandfather is Irish. Can you tell?
In Ireland, Iron Man finds many of his old foes.
Having to fight fake versions of many of your foes will become a common Marvel trope, one usually saved for anniversary issues.
What is true love if not making long distance calls?
Rating: ★★½, 41/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
I read this story in the Invincible Iron Man Omnibus vol. 1
Characters:
- Iron Man/Tony Stark
- Dream-Maker/Master of Dreams/Dream-Master/Count Nefaria
- Jack Frost (dream)
- Crimson Dynamo (dream)
- Melter (dream)
- Gargantus (dream)
- Black Knight (dream)
- Pepper Potts
- Happy Hogan
- Unicorn (dream)
- Happy’s grandfather
Story notes:
- Happy Hogan flies to Shannon, Ireland from JFK.
- Count Nefaria no longer leader of Maggia; operating from abandoned Nazi base in Norway.
- Takes place a few weeks after Masters of Evil battle in Avengers #16.
- Nefaria’s dream machine explodes.
- Pepper convinces Happy to return.
- Iron Man never learns this was more than a dream.
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