Sep 1977
Dreadknight and the Daughter of Creation!
by Bill Mantlo, George Tuska, and Mike Esposito, Pablo Marcos
Iron Man and Frankenstein’s Monster battle the Dreadknight. They are defeated and imprisoned. It is then that Iron Man meets the Daughter of Creation, who is the great granddaughter of Victor von Frankenstein and the Baroness of the castle.
She tells Iron Man about the Dreadknight: who he is and how he arrived in Castle Frankenstein. His real name is Bram Velsing. He was a Latverian scientist who was punished for talking back to his monarch, Victor von Doom. Doom punished Velsing by fusing an elaborate iron mask to his face. Velsing fled Latveria and wound up by chance at Castle Frankenstein. The baroness nursed him back to health and gave him a bat-winged black horse, which Iron Man believes once belonged to the original Black Knight, Nathan Garrett.
Unsatisfied with the hospitality he received and eager to get revenge on Doom he sought to learn the secrets of Victor von Frankenstein. The baroness refused to share those secrets. The Dreadknight responded by taking over the castle and. imprisoning his benefactor.
Iron Man and Frankenstein break free and defeat the Dreadknight. The baroness is once again restored to her proper place.
This is the first appearance of the Dreadknight. He has only had a few appearances in the 40 years since this story was published.
Jack Hart appears in one panel of this issue. He witnessed Jasper Sitwell chasing Krissy Longfellow and Harry Key in a wild car chase. He notes that they are coming from the direction of Stark Industries and decides to head that way.
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