Jan 1978
Then There Came a War!
by Bill Mantlo, George Tuska, Mike Esposito
Jasper holds a gun to Madame Masque’s Head and threatens to kill her if Iron Man doesn’t do his duty and locate Tony Stark. The Wraith is the only one of the assembled heroes who knows that Iron Man is Tony Stark. Tony is torn. He thought he had finally found peace and happiness with Whitney but Jasper has reminded him that there are lots of people counting on him. In the end he takes off to find and deal with Midas. Jack of Hearts and the Guardsman fly after him. The other heroes plus Madame Masque leave Jasper Sitwell and head for Stark Industries by car.
The heroes arrive at Stark Industries Long Island HQ by land and air and a battle with the forces of Midas begins. The heroes seem to be winning the fight against Midas’ troops but then reinforcements, spare suits of Iron Man’s armor controlled by Midas, attack. Midas got help with the suits of armor from Abe Klein, one of Tony’s top scientists, whom he blackmailed into helping him. The heroes are picked off leaving Iron Man alone against the automated suits of armor.
The bottom half of the final page seems to include a preview of things to come once the Midas story has ended. Marianne Rogers arrives outside Stark Industries. She says something to herself about killing Tony in the final panel.
For the most part this was a good issue I’m not sure why there were four splash pages. I don’t think they needed that many. I wonder if it was just to drag the chapter out a little longer or maybe because it is George Tuska’s final issue of Iron Man.
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