Issue Description

Iron Man finds out that the Red Ghost along with his Super-Apes is too much for one Iron Suit! Plus: The Red Ghost’s true goal comes to light! And how will Tony Stark play into it?

The Red Ghost, Ivan Kragoff, is trapped in his phantom form, so he has the Super Apes kidnap Tony Stark, to make Strak return him to his normal form. Back in New York, Iron Man, actually being Happy, is injured and taken to Stark International. Michael O'Brien comes in, uses his detective badge to talk to Iron Man who tells him he'll come to the station as soon as possible but he has first to a job to do : Finding Tony Stark !

At the Red Ghost's base, Tony Stark learns that the Red Ghost has been unable to turn off his intangibility power since his battle against the Defenders (back in Defenders #8) and he needs Stark's cosmitronic cannon to fix this problem. Tony lures him and his apes to Stark International by making him think he can't reproduce the cannon at the Red Ghost's base. In his factory, Tony fixes the cannon and uses it on the Red Ghost, who becomes tangible again. Kragoff orders his apes to kill Stark who uses a smoke bomb, with which he had equipped the cannon earlier, and uses the chaos to put on a spare Iron Man armor in the chaos, then defeats the apes. The Red Ghost taunts Iron Man, saying he can't be beaten now that he has the control of his power again and turns intangible, Shellhead tries to warn him but Kragoff does not listen to him and is destroyed : Tony Stark could not restore all of his power. He could only restore his tangibility and using his power would destroy the Red Ghost.

As promised at the beginning of the issue by Happy, posing as Iron Man, Tony Stark goes to the station as Shellhead and gives his version of what happened and then goes back to Stark International, only to see Happy collapsing because of the injuries he sustained fighting against the apes.

Iron Man (1968)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

Iron Man Volume 1

Iron Man Vol. 1 is Iron Man's first ongoing solo series. The series was launched following the success of the Iron Man stories in Tales of Suspense and continues from the one shot Iron Man and Sub-Mariner which picks up the story arc from Tales of Suspense #99. Many of the classic story lines and characters that are part of comic history today originate from this volume. The series started in 1968 and lasted all the way to 1996. Continues in Iron Man Vol.2.

Created by writers Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, Iron Man's first appearance was in Tales of Suspense #39.

Collected EditionsEssential Iron Man Vol. 2 (#1-11)Marvel Masterworks Vol. 5 (#2-13)Essential Iron Man Vol. 3 (#12-38)Marvel Masterworks Vol. 6 (#14-25)Marvel Masterworks Vol. 7 (#26-38)Marvel Masterworks Vol. 8 (#39-53)Essential Iron Man Vol. 4 (#39-61)Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man Volume 9 (#54-67)Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude (#55)Guardians of the Galaxy Solo Classic Omnibus (#55)Essential Iron Man Vol. 5 (#62-75 & 77-87)Iron Man By Michelinie, Layton & Romita Jr. (#115-157)Demon in a Bottle (#120-128)Ant-Man: Scott Lang (#131-133 & 151)Doomquest (#149-150, #249-250)The Invincible Iron Man: The Enemy Within (#158-177)Iron Man Epic Collection: Duel of Iron (#178-195)Iron Monger (#193-200)Iron Man Epic Collection: Stark Wars (#215-232)Armor Wars Prologue (#215-224)Armor Wars (#225-232)Armor Wars II (#258-266)Iron Man Epic Collection: War Games (#258-277)Armored Vengeance (#258.1-258.4)Dragon Seed Saga (#270-275)War Machine (#281-291)Captain America Epic Collection: Man Without A Country (#326)

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