Issue(s): Iron Man #9
Published Date: Jan 69
Title: "...There lives a green goliath"
Credits:
Archie Goodwin - Writer
George Tuska - Penciler
Johnny T. Craig - Inker
Stan Lee - Editor

Review/plot:
The Mandarin has a Hulk robot shipped in from China. He uses it to attack Iron Man, who, as Tony Stark, is working to buy the business that Janice Cord inherited from her father. Cord's lawyer Vincent Sandhurst is a sleazy bastard giving her bad advice; it makes more sense for her to hold on to the business and continue to receive revenue from it, but Sandhurst needs the transaction fee now. Stark is in looooove with Cord, but she thinks he's a wimp. Iron Man feels like something is wrong with the Hulk since he is nastier than usual, but doesn't figure out that it's really a robot until he destroys it.

The Mandarin, in disguise (from the readers!) this issue until the end, is working with an antique saleswoman named Mei-Ling. When the Hulk robot loses, Mandarin, ever the optimist, says that's ok, "For I've once again tested your fighting strength... once again learned the limits of your endurance." One day the Mandarin is gonna stop all this testing and start actually doing something, and then watch out!

'So big, so fast' alert: Hulk robot: "Just 'cause Hulk is big and bulky... doesn't mean he isn't fast!

Quality Rating: D+

Historical Significance Rating: 2

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• The robot Hulk's rampage in New York, the people on the street remember the last time the Hulk rampaged through their town in Hulk #106. That issue just so happened to also be written by Archie Goodwin.

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: Iron Man #76 "Beware the dreaded doom!" Such are the words of Stan (The Man) Lee. But when the triple "D" does catch up, there's nothing better to do than represent a latterday classic, such as this one by able Archie Goodwin, who has since returned to the fold!