TOS #89 "The Monstrous Menace of the Mysterious Melter!"
Script: Stan Lee and Gene Colan
Art: Gene Colan and Frank Giacoia and Artie Simek
Tony Stark is supervising Stark Industries new factory build after the last one was destroyed with bonuses all around. The Foreman lets Tony know how the employees feel about him. They would work around the clock if asked to. Senator Byrd stops to see Stark and tells him that he decided not to ask Tony or Iron Man to testify before his committee. After talking with his staff, he realized it was too dangerous to operate the Iron Man armor. If Tony still makes weapons for the government, that should suffice. Pepper (blonde now) and Happy come by asking when they should come back to work when Tony sees a crane overloaded with rocks about to hit them. He dives to protect them. Pepper trips and both men are buried in rocks. Pepper runs to Happy. They are both okay, but it is clear now whom Pepper loves. A hurt Anthony Stark begins to live the playboy life to try and forget Pepper. Day and night, night and day, out with 30 gals. Meanwhile, we see the Melter in his cell in prison. His cell mate stealing parts he asked for out of the machine shop. He puts together a new melting gun that took a year to finish. He promised to break them both out. But when he melts the bars, he clobbers his cell mate, saying gratitude is for the birds. The next day at Stark's new factory, Tony suits up as Iron Man to check the place over. The Melter in full gear seeks out Stark to make his melting gun miniaturized powered with his famous transistors. The Melter spots Iron Man and begins to fire. Iron Man uses his repulsor rays to make him drop the melting gun. When Iron Man apprehends the Melter, the bolts on his Melter helmet costume shoots out a melting ray melting Iron Man's glove. He melts the crane with two men on it and it begins to fall on the crew below. Iron Man saves them all but then retreats into the office, where Anthony Stark emerges. The Melter demands Stark make him a miniature Melting gun.
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