Descrizione
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1972
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Other Characters:
- Bill Wheeler
- Ed Winthrop
- Lester Leroy
- Sally Weston
- Lt. Nately
- Brother Brimstone (Ross Archer) (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Los Angeles
- Hollywood
- La Brea Tar Pits
Synopsis
Following the funeral of Ross Archer, Daredevil begins trying to figure out who is the one posing as Brother Brimstone and trying to murder the cast and crew of Karen’s recent acting gig for the soap-opera “Strange Secrets.”
Finding the blue prints to an exoskeleton, Daredevil is attacked once more by Brother Brimstone. Meanwhile, Karen goes to the La Brea Tar Pits to meet Lester Leroy who has some clues as to who the killer is. DD finding Lester’s note, fearing that Karen is walking into a trap, goes after her.
At the tar pits Karen is attacked by Brother Brimstone, and is saved by the timely arrival of Daredevil. Their fight taking them right into the tar pits, DD attempts to save Brimstone. Pulling off his mask while trying to grab him and pull him to safety, Brother Brimstone is revealed to be Vince Sterling. However, while struggling to pull them out of the tar, Vince ends up sinking down into the tar due to the weight of his own exoskeleton. DD informs Karen that Vince’s intention was murdering Karen and then framing Lance for all the murders because both had seen the blueprints to his exoskeleton.
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Synopsis
Iron Man was literally in the grip of the Mandarin’s giant android,
Ultimo, and hurtling toward a rocky wall. He then averts the stunning
and perhaps lethal impact by using his jet boots to direct himself away
from the rocky outcrop. Iron Man, though free, discovers that he is
out-matched physically in every way to his foe. Weapons and strength are
useless as the armored hero reels before the onslaught of Ultimo’s eye
beam attacks. The Mandarin is only viewing and directing the action from
afar by television monitor and concludes that Iron Man is in flight.
Rather than just purposeless flight from Ultimo, Iron Man acts on the
knowledge he gained as Tony Stark in the Mandarin’s Castle and lures the
giant humanoid back to the volcano in which it was created. Iron Man
gets Ultimo to unleash the power of the volcano itself in a dodge of the
eye beams that have been assaulting him through the Chinese
countryside. Ultimo is ultimately undone by the lava flow loosened by
its own blasts and the Mandarin takes solace in his inevitable conquest
of the world and believing to have killed Iron Man’s employer Tony
Stark. Iron Man however is still stranded in Red China though the
Mandarin has abandoned any further interest in the Avenger. Iron Man
crosses the landscape on foot to reach an air base of the Red Army that
had been threatening the Mandarin before Ultimo attacked. Under-powered,
Iron Man fights the remaining troops to get at a remaining MiG fighter
that he hopes will fly him back to Western controlled airspace. Airborne
in the stolen craft the Avenger is intercepted by US fighters but
manages to avoid being shot down thanks to his Avenger security
clearance. Back in the States and resuming his civilian self finds Tony
Stark, a day later, at the gates of his now closed Flushing factory and
offices with scattered discarded newspapers sporting the headlines that
the government has ordered the place shut down. Tony reads from one of
the papers the details that his money has been frozen and a warrant is
standing for his arrest on top of the closure of all of Stark
Industries.
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“Project: Blackout, Part II: The Second Doom!” / Progetto Distruzione Parte II : LA SECONDA SCONFITTA
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Other Characters:
- Captain America
- Thing
- Mister Fantastic
- Jimmy Woo
- Suwan (robot) (First appearance)
- Fritz Von Voltzmann (First appearance) (robot)
Villains:
- Yellow Claw (robot)
- Henchmen
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Items:
- Captain America’s Shield
- Vacu-lift
- Electro-amplifier rifle
Synopsis
At the Baxter Building, Reed Richards & Ben Grimm save Cap from
falling to his death. Fury barely saves himself by catching onto the
Statue’s crown. Reed creates an “Electro-Amplifier Rifle” to overcome
the invaders, and sends Ben in an experimental saucer to the Clay
Substation near Syracuse to tap into its power. Fury tries to destroy
the Id-Paralyzer (which is shaped like a giant scorpion), but is
overcome and tossed into the bay. Cap arrives just in time to save him,
and Reed’s weapon activates just in time to stop the invaders, cutting
off all power on the East Coast in the process. Fury then blows up the
Id-Paralyzer. Back in the present, Jimmy Woo tells Fury he believes the
man behind it all was The Yellow Claw. In a hidden, underground base,
The Yellow Claw, his niece Suwan & his ally Von Voltzmann eavesdrop
on the conversation, as The Claw speaks of his “infallible” scheme–
“The Second Doom”.
