Issue(s): Iron Man #137
Published Date: Aug 80
Title: "Facades!"
Credits:
David Michelinie & Bob Layton - Writer
Bob Layton - Penciler
Bob Layton - Inker

Review/plot:
Iron Man helps out at Stark Industries during a case of sabotage, but the saboteur gets away. The real story, though, is that Bethany Cabe's partner and friend, Ling McPherson, fills in on a job for Bethany, and gets ambushed by goons and beaten nearly to death.

Quality Rating: B+

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: Tony says he just arrived back in America from visiting England in Iron Man #136 this morning.

References:

• We meet Mr. Arbogast's sister, but we've apparently actually met her before. Tony Stark pulled her out of the bathroomon the plane in Iron Man #120 and knocked her over in Atlantic City in Iron Man #123. He knocks her into the punchbowl this issue.
  
• Iron Man increased the heat resistant properties of his refractory coating in Iron Man #135.

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: N/A