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Once again, it’s
backstory time! See all this extra
reading I do, just to flesh out these reviews?
That’s how much I love you. And
comic books. But mostly you.
Okay, so leading
up to Tales of Suspense #61, Iron
Man’s heart condition took a bit of a nosedive (that’s why you don’t smoke,
idiot), so he had to wear the entire armor all the time instead of just the
chest plate. Obviously Tony Stark
couldn’t be seen wandering around in Iron Man’s armor, so Stark just kind of
disappeared with no good explanation, leaving Iron Man as the prime suspect in
his disappearance. It all came to a head
in Tales of Suspense #61, in which Tony
stumbled on the idea of being sick and bedridden as an excuse for his
absence. Unfortunately, the Mandarin had
to go and complicate things by destroying Tony’s house with a giant energy beam
from space, making the world think everyone’s favorite playboy engineer is
dead. Iron Man runs off to find the
source of the beam.
Which brings us
to today’s tale.
