Nov 1977
Triad!
by Bill Mantlo, George Tuska, Mike Esposito
Iron Man and Madame Masque try to find some peace and quiet at Tony's mansion. It is one of the few things (including his personal fortune) that Midas does not now control. Whitney has a nightmare about Midas killing Iron Man. She wakes up to find that he is okay.
She levels with him and tells him that she had already figured out who he really is before he brought her to his home. The next interruption is Jasper Sitwell. He has been looking for them. He is there to arrest Whitney but he also wants Whitney back. He is ready to fight Iron Man for her. For once he is dressed not in street clothes but in a SHIELD uniform and is well armed. Whitney balks at the idea of being fought over by the two men.
There is a fair amount of flashback in this issue. All of the previous appearances of Madame Masque are briefly revisited.
Jack of Hearts makes an appearance in the first of two brief interludes on the final page. He wants to help Iron Man but isn't sure where to find him. Marianne Rogers is featured in the second interlude. She must be someone from Tony's past but I have no idea who she is and I would rather find out in the course of the story. She also showed up in a similarly brief scene at the end of Iron Man 103.
There's a lot of scene chewing in this issue and not much in the way of action. I'm okay with that. I enjoyed the showdown between Iron Man and Sitwell. The SHIELD agent still doesn't know that Tony is the one beneath the helmet of his employer's bodyguard. The opening with Madame Masque's dream involving Midas was a bit weird. I wonder why they included it. Could it be foreshadowing?
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