TOS #66 "If I Fail, a World is Lost!"
Script: Stan Lee
Art: Don Heck and Mickey Demeo and Sam Rosen
Tony Stark is in his office charging his chest plate. A Senator is waiting on him and is upset because Tony is late. The Senator has come to see the new transistorized one-man submarine, although he thinks very little of Tony Stark, the playboy, running tests for government contracts. Happy sees how Pepper looks at Tony and is jealous. He volunteers for the sub test, but Iron Man is to do it. Happy says if he can't do it, he quits, feeling useless. Tony can't go after Happy because the Senator is waiting. He can't believe a playboy like Stark invented these devices to begin with. At the test site, Iron Man (the rivets are gone from the helmet - first appearance of the Classic Armor) and the Navy leadership and the Senator watch the demonstration. It is extremely durable and maneuverable. Iron Man takes it out then is attacked. He avoids it with the sub. Iron Man leaves the sub to investigate and finds the Atlanteans and a monster sized gun. Shell head recognizes Attuma as Giant-Man once fought him. Iron Man has a 30 minute air supply in his classic armor. This gun will shoot a rare metal, Nautilium, into the atmosphere and will change the oxygen molecule to make it more thick and liquid like, making it difficult to breathe. It is a madman trying to take over the surface world. Iron Man is spotted and begins to destroy Attuma's mechanical forces. They descend on him without their ships. Iron Man fires repulsors at the rocks which disperse the underwater breathers. Attuma attacks and Iron Man charges. Attuma flees and traps Iron Man in an underwater cave and he's almost out of air. Iron Man uses his chest beam to escape the radiation beams that act like prison bars. As he runs out of air, he reaches the sub and uses it to destroy the monster gun that would destroy the world. Iron Man returns to the surface in seeming failure, and the senator promises that Tony Stark will lose the contracts.
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