IRON MAN #162
(Sept., 1982) "The Menace Within!"
Cover art: Hanningan/Milgrom.
Script: Dennis O'Neil.
Art: Mike Vosburg/Steve Mitchell/Janice Chiang/Bob Sharen.
Tony gets a call that Stark International is being attacked while working on the armor. Two WW II planes are strafing the area and dropping a bomb by the arch. Iron Man gets there in time to deflect rubble from hitting a woman. He goes after each plane and realize they are drones being controlled from somewhere else. One he puts in the sea, the other suddenly explodes. Tony comes across Bart Ainslee, a man with bandages on his face asking Stark employees to try a new headset for music. Suddenly accidents and violence begin to happen all over Stark International. It's the headphones. He goes to Bart and uncovers the plot. There is a transmission that will have 500 employees destroy one another. Iron Man tracks to the arch and destroys it right as the transmission begins. It knocks it out, and he returns to Bart. Bart will not reveal his employer and dies.
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