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In questo albo si arresta finalmente la sciagurata emorragia di dignità e buon senso che ha contraddistinto ed infestato l’ inqualificabile scontro fisico, verbale ed etico tra il viscido ragno e la pallida sanguisuga, mentre dopo alcuni mesi di forzato declassamento al tornio e alla fresa torna anche l’ inossidabile IRON MAN che non si vedeva su queste pagine dal n.219 e per commemorare festeggia senza ritegno insieme nientemeno che al mostro di FRANKENSTEIN, e non manca nemmeno l’ ipovedente DEVIL, addirittura con una storia tutta intera ma senza i caratteri braille

“… And Only One Shall Survive!” / LOTTA AL VAMPIRO
Writers Archie Goodwin Pencilers Sal Buscema Inkers Mike Esposito Colourists Marie Severin

Featured Characters:

• Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Supporting Characters:

• Flash Thompson
• Daily Bugle Staff
  • Glory Grant

Villains:

• Morbius
• Empathoid (First full appearance)

Other Characters:

• Sha Shan
• Achmed Korba

Locations:

• New York City
  • Manhattan
    • Peter’s Chelsea Apartment
• Dimension Z

Items:

• Spider-Man’s Web-Shooters
• Dimensionizer

Synopsis

Having saved Glory Grant from Morbius
(who is being controlled by a being known as the Empathoid) Spidey
brings Glory to safety while the Empathoid forces Morbius to attack
Spider-Man. Meanwhile, Flash breaks into the restaurant/apartment where
he had seen Sha Shan. When finally seeing her, the man who has been
sending him away shows up, and Sha Shan reveals that the man is her
husband, the devastated Flash leaves them alone.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man manages to knock out Morbius, causing the
Empathoid to leave his body and possess Spider-Man. The Empathoid
explains that it is a creature that was alone in it’s dimension when
Morbius appeared. It found itself drawn to his emotions, and forced
Morbius to return to Earth so that he could experience as many emotions
as possible. Deciding that Spider-Man would be a better host, the
Empathoid decides to stay within the wall-crawler, Spider-Man is forced
to flee when the police arrive. Reviving, Morbius also decides to leave
as well.

After Peter repairs his web-shooters, the Empathoid forces him to
go back out as Spider-Man to find and battle Morbius once more. When
battling Morbius, Spider-Man get’s an idea when they happen close enough
to a football stadium where a game is going on. Spider-Man take the
fight to the middle of the game. The emotions of all the sports fans
overwhelm the Empathoid, causing it to leave Spider-Man’s body and pass
out. Spider-Man allows Morbius to depart, and he decides to turn the
Empathoid over to the Fantastic Four for study. 

“Then Came the Monster!” / E POI VENNE IL MOSTRO (1a parte)
Writers Bill Mantlo Pencilers George Tuska Inkers Mike Esposito Colourists Don Warfield

Featured Characters:

• Iron Man (Tony Stark)

Supporting Characters:

• Harry Key
• Jasper Sitwell
• Krissy Longfellow

Villains:

• Frankenstein’s Monster
• Mandarin (Only in flashback)

Other Characters:

• Major Wu
• Chinese troops
• Children of the Damned

Locations:

• China
• India
• Bavarian Alps
• Yugoslavia
  • Yugoslav-Greek border
• Switzerland
  • Castle Frankenstein

Items:

• Iron Man Armor MK V
• Makluan Power Rings (Only in flashback)

Synopsis

Following his battle with the Mandarin, Iron Man flies across a
Chinese military airfield. Low on power, he commandeers a fighter jet
and takes off. A group of soldiers ask their superior, Major Wu, why he
didn’t retaliate, to which he replies that Iron Man’s efforts to rid
them of the Mandarin have earned him a bit of latitude with the Chinese
government.

Tony flies across Asia, then India and over the U.S.S.R. As he
makes his way across the globe, Stark ponders his most recent debacle
with the Mandarin. He is shocked from his reverie over the skies of
Yugoslavia when soldiers begin firing surface to air missiles at him.
They believe their target to be a communist jet come to attack them. The
plane is destroyed, however Tony realises that the Iron Man armor is
charged enough to allow him to fly away on his own power. Missiles
continue to strike Tony, sending him spiraling out of the sky.

He lands somewhere in the Swiss Alps where soon a group of
freakish, diminutive humanoids known as the Children of the Damned
stumble upon him. The Children signal their leader to inspect their
find. Their leader is none other than Frankenstein’s Monster. The
Monster hefts the unconscious Iron Man onto his shoulder and brings him
back to Castle Frankenstein.

Tony awakens to find the Monster and the Children staring at him
in a threatening manner. They liken him to another helmeted individual
who has recently sought to take control of the castle.

Continued to next issue…

Notes

• The Frankenstein Monster appeared last in Marvel Team-Up #37 (in Italy in URC #177).
• The Mandarin appears in flashback to events that took place in Iron Man #100 (in Italy in URC #219).
• The Frankenstein Monster makes reference to his mistress, the “Daughter of Creation”. He is speaking in reference to Victoria von Frankenstein.

Trivia

• The creative staff for this issue are credited as: Boisterous
  Bill Mantlo, Gorgeous George Tuska, Mighty Mike Esposito and Archie
  Goodwin. 

“Danger Rides the Bitter Wind!” / IL PERICOLO A CAVALLO DEL VENTO
Writers Jim Shooter Pencilers George Tuska Inkers Jim Mooney Colourists Janice Cohen

Featured Characters:

• Daredevil

Supporting Characters:

• Foggy Nelson
• Heather Glenn

Villains:

• The Owl

Other Characters:

• Mr. Santiago
• Ernest W. Rockworth
• Crespi
• Dr. Petrovic
• Miss Marks

Locations:

• New York City
  • Storefront Legal Services
• Poughkeepsie, New York
  • Upstate Medical Center

Items:

• Daredevil’s Billy Club

Vehicles:

• Owl Rocket

Synopsis

A doctor held hostage gives the Owl an exoskeleton allowing him to walk and fly better than before.