Featuring: Iron Man
Release: July 7, 1966
Cover: October 1966
12 cents
Script: Stan Lee
Pencils: Gene Colan
Inks: Frank Giacoia
Lettering: Artie Simek
Emergency first aid: Irving Forbush
12 pages
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And now, you loud-mouthed, thick-skinned, empty-headed Volga Boatman–
Tony Stark’s testimony to Congress is delayed yet again when Titanium Man attacks.
We get an all-out battle between the armored foes.
I often complain about heroes over-hyping lame villain powers. We get the opposite here. There’s a lot of cool things about Iron Man’s armor, but to hear both Iron Man and Titanium Man talk, you would think the most impressive thing was the built-in rollerskates.
Iron Man gets in a good insult.
Pepper and Happy witness the fight. Titanium Man deduces Pepper means something to Iron Man and takes her hostage.
40 issues since her debut, Pepper actually hasn’t been taken hostage by villains all that often, especially when compared to Jane Foster.
The decompressed storytelling style continues. Last issue took a whole issue to get to the fight, and this issue is just the fight, which will continue next issue.
Rating: ★★★☆☆, 52/100
Significance: ★★★☆☆
I read this story in Iron Man Epic Collection vol. 2: By Force of Arms.
Characters:
- Iron Man/Tony Stark
- Titanium Man
- Happy Hogan
- Pepper Potts
- Senator Harrington Byrd
Story notes:
- Picks up where last issue left off with Iron Man fighting Titanium Man in DC.
- Iron Man notes Titanium Man’s armor is bigger, stronger, and more maneuverable than before.
- Titanium Man been fed hormone pills to enlarge his body.
- Russians don’t want secret of Iron Man’s armor given to US military.
- Iron Man hits Titantium Man with vial of unstable freon. Titanium Man shatters ice shield.
- Repulsor rays bounce of Titanium Man’s armor and ricochet.
- Rotating his ear disks one quarter turn causes mechanized roller wheels to snap into place.
- Crowd follows fight around despite danger.
- Iron Man caught in Titanium Man’s paralysis ray; an electrical force, causing transistors to react and short-circuiting power sources.
- Titanium Man can tell Pepper means something to Iron Man and takes her hostage.
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| Captain America Comics #6, Story B | PRELUDE | |
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