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Iron Man #73
Issue(s): Iron Man #73
Cover Date: Mar 75
Title: "Turnabout: A most foul play!"
Credits:
Mike Friedrich - Script
Tom Orzechowski - Plot
Arvell Malcolm Jones & Keith Pollard - Penciler
Jim Mooney - Inker
Review/plot:
This issue's plot was an idea by the letterer, Tom Orzechowski.
Pepper knows that Tony Stark is Iron Man, so he demonstrates how he gets into costume for her. She comments on the fact that he has to take off all his clothes to get in his armor: "Uh, boss -- what's with this 'naked came the stranger' bit, Tony -- I'm a married woman now, remember?"
Then he heads off to Vietnam. Strange things are going on. First, the current Crimson Dynamo (the third to wear the armor) is ranting about going after Iron Man. His companions in the Titanic Three try to convince him to leave his past vendettas behind, but he's not convincible.
Second, there's the weird underground utopian society that Marty March brought Roxanne Gilbert to, and it's all falling to pieces as the leader decides to show his true tyrannical colors. It also seems they've been stockpiling weapons purchased from Stark Industries.
Iron Man has received a distress call from Roxie.
On his way there, of course, he winds up in a fight with the Crimson Dynamo, who has no problem endangering innocent Vietnamese in order to get at Iron Man. Dynamo runs away when he realizes that the people will turn on him.
The utopia is destroyed in the fight, and the leader is killed when he falls into a pit trap after being chased by its members.
On his way home, Iron Man thinks about the Black Lama and his plan to start a war of the super-villains.
Quality Rating: C
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: Takes place after Giant-Size Man-Thing #2.
References:
- Iron Man is just returning from an encounter with the Man-Thing in Giant-Size Man-Thing #2.
- The current Crimson Dynamo has sworn revenge on Iron Man for the death of Janice Cord in Iron Man #22.
- We first met the Titanic Three in Avengers #130.
- Iron Man says it's been a week since he left Roxie Gilbert at the Viet Nam utopia to go after Sunfire. A footnote says "That's Marvel-time, of course! In our reality, it's been five issues!" That puts it at Iron Man #68.
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
On the cover, Marty March seems to have grown his missing arm back.
"Naked Came The Stranger" was an infamous suppressed porno novel which became a porn film later in 1975.
Best line: "Butt out, Titanium Man!"
Well, not exactly...Naked Came the Stranger was a hoax, a spoof of trashy erotica written by a round-robin of journalists. It became a bestseller in 1969.
Notice that Annette Kawecki actually lettered the quote in question, not Tom?
