Issue Description

He’s back! The most furious of all foes—the fearsome Freak! A city trembles in fear, and not even Iron Man can save it—not on the night of the walking bomb!

Iron Man arrives at the hospital with his enervator machine and meets Dr. Ritter, the surgeon who is going to operate on Happy Hogan who appears to have sustained heavy internal injuries while impersonating Iron two issues back. The operation goes well, and Tony Stark even assures Pepper there is no risk for Happy to turn into the Freak this time, since he has modified his machine. Yet, when the nurses are wheeling him back to his room, he turns into the Freak and disappears somewhere in the hospital. Shellhead finally finds him in the cobalt storage room, the same radiation the enervator uses ! The Freak is stronger than ever and even has his own kind of repulsor ray, he throws Iron Man through the wall into the sewers of the hospital. Dr Ritter orders to open the valve of the tunnel, to drown the Freak before the radiations make him explode. Instead, both Iron Man and the Freak find themselves in the East River and continues to fight, but Iron Man's armour is damaged, and the Freak does not seem to tire out. But Shellhead is eventually beaten, lying still on the road, and the Freak, first unsure of what to do now that his only objective, the destruction of Iron Man, has been achieved, hops on a train headed toward Manhattan.

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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