Descrizione
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1978
all’ interno : IRON MAN
CONDIZIONI : MOLTO BUONE, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
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“Danger: Demon on a Rampage!” / IL DEMONE DEVASTATORE
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Batroc the Leaper
- Monster from an unknown dimension
Other Characters:
- The Falcon
- Leila Taylor
- Night People
- Brother Inquisitor
- Abner Doolittle
- “Texas” Jack
- Caspar
- Robbie Robertson
- J. Jonah Jameson
- SHIELD agents
- New York policemen
Locations:
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Daily Bugle
- City Hospital
- Manhattan
Items:
Vehicles:
- SHIELD Hovercraft
- A Staten Island Ferry (Destroyed)
Synopsis
Spider-Man is swinging through the city at dusk when suddenly on the
street below him a strange portal opens and a demonic creature passes
through it to Earth. Hearing the commotion, Spider-Man turns around to
investigate and tries to stop the creature, but it swats him away with
its superior strength. Coming through the portal next are the Falcon,
Leila Davis, Texas Jack, a number of the insane Night People of Zero
Street and lastly Captain America, before the portal finally closes.
With the Night People and Falcon going on a rampage, Captain America
quickly knocks out his partner and has the police round up the Night
People. Captain America carries away the unconscious Falcon and promises
to explain what happened to Spider-Man some other time. When the police
attempt to arrest Spider-Man, the wall-crawler makes his escape.
Elsewhere in the city, in his private penthouse, Batroc the
Leaper is having issues with Caspar, his hired butler. When the nervous
new hire drops his priceless dishes stolen from a rich family in France,
Batroc knocks him out with a single kick. Hearing a commotion on the
street, Batroc notices the creature loosed on New York earlier walking
down the street. Seeing this creature as a perfect opportunity for
himself, Batroc seeks out the monster, hoping to make it his slave. He
corners it in an alleyway and offers it his friendship.
Spider-Man meanwhile has arrived at the Daily Bugle to see if his camera has been repaired (damaged in previous issue, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #1) and notices that J. Jonah Jameson is still acting strangely.
Later that night on the docks, a S.H.I.E.L.D. hovercraft is
landing to deliver a shipment of trans-uranium worth ten million
dollars. The shipment is then attacked by Batroc and the creature from
Zero Street, who give the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents a good pounding until
Captain America arrives to lend a hand. When Cap finds himself
outmatched, he is saved in the nick of time by Spider-Man, who has come
to lend a hand after hearing of the battle on the television. As the two
fight their foes, they duck in such a way so that Batroc and the
creature strike each other. Batroc is knocked out, and the creature
begins to give off a radioactive glow and flees the scene.
When they establish that Batroc knows nothing about the
creature’s glowing, the heroes leave him in the custody of SHIELD to
stop the creature. They track it to a yacht that is heading out to sea,
and while Spider-Man fights off the creature, Captain America goes below
decks to rig the ship to explode. When Cap returns to the deck he finds
that Spider-Man is caught in a death grip, but uses all of his strength
to break free. The two heroes manage to jump ship just before the ship
explodes, killing the creature on board. Afterward, the two heroes part
company.
Later, in his civilian guise of Peter Parker, Spider-Man has Mary
Jane help him pick up his Aunt May from the hospital, and finds that
Mary Jane is still angry at him. Watching Captain America walk by, Peter
thinks to himself how lucky Captain America must be and figures the
hero has it all, completely missing the fact that Star-Spangled Avenger
walks slumped over, consumed with thoughts on how his partner Falcon
might be cured of his insanity.
Notes
- Inks: backgrounds by Hunt (uncredited).
- This story follows up on the adventures of Captain America in another dimension in Captain America #203 (in Italy in THC #183).
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“Ten Rings to Rule the World!” / DIECI ANELLI PER GOVERNARE
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Michael O’Brien
- Kristine Chrissy Longfellow (Krissy) / Madame Masque
- Jasper Sitwell
Villains:
- Mandarin
- Mandarin’s Death Squad
Other Characters:
- Yellow Claw (Only in flashback)
- Loc Do (Only in flashback)
- Senator Byrd
- Senator Andrew Jackson Hawk
- Jonathan Rich (Death)
Locations:
Items:
- Iron Man Armor MK V
- Electro-swords
- Iron Man Armor MK III
- Mandarin’s Rings
Vehicles:
- Avengers Quinjet
Synopsis
Tony Stark
has travelled to China to rescue Kevin O’Brien, disguised as Iron Man,
who had been captured by the Mandarin. Stark and O’Brien change armor
with Stark obtaining the most recent model. Stark reveals his identity
to O’Brien, who has been antagonizing him for the past few months. He
orders O’Brien to return to the States aboard an Avengers Quinjet.
O’Brien does so, thinking he might have mistaken Stark for a villain.
Iron Man
invades the Mandarin’s castle lair. He encounters and defeats his
Death-Squad and eventually confronts the Oriental Master himself. The
Mandarin freezes Iron Man with his rings and tells how he survived his
apparent death at the hands of the Yellow Claw
in an earlier battle. The Mandarin had transferred his consciousness
into his rings, and when the Claw’s servant Loc Do placed the rings on
his hands, the Mandarin took over his form.
Iron Man turns on his heat inducer and thaws his frozen body. He
eventually defeats the Mandarin by seizing his rings and de-magnetizing
them. In a last act, the Mandarin remotely assassinates his agent,
Jonathan Rich, in Washington D.C. for failing him. Iron Man destroys
the Mandarin’s machinery, as well as his castle but spares the Oriental
Master’s life. The Golden Avenger then leaves the Mandarin, asking him
to remember his act of altruism.
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“A Hanging for a Hero!” / IMPICCAGGIONE PER UN EROE! (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Jester
- mobsters
- Jeffrey Jefferson (Death)
Other Characters:
- New York Mayor
- Stone
- Maxwell Glenn
- Gerald Ford (Faux Televison Image)
Locations:
Items:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
Jester continues to manipulate the media by faking a newscast by the
president where he tells the public to kill all super heroes; Jester
captures DD and holds a mock trial.
